Prefabricated school buildings in Italy. The experimental events of the '60

Regulation No. 17, published in 1962, by the EEC Treaty saw the allocation of 20 thousand million lire to support the construction of new pre-fabricated school buildings in Italy; moreover, it initiated a particular event in building industrialization development. The primary aim of the regulation was concerned with the necessity to construct a large number of buildings in a short time and at low cost in order to meet the demands of increasing school intake numbers. A key issue was to identify and assess new building technologies and strategies that could be applied in the education sector. To address these issues, the Centro Studi per l’Edilizia Scolastica (CSES) was founded as a new body within the Ministry of Education; it was delegated to defining the technical programme and guiding the development of pre-fabricated building systems.