Engineering for de-construction process. Perspectives of development in Italy

The paper main objective, based on a methodical system within the knowledge sphere of recognition of the true potential of building materials, is to identify the component factors of a system in support of a demolition project; a model that is going to be leading designer’s choices for selective demolition, resulting in building materials waste being reused to advantage, so that it can be proved that a correct scheduling of each phase and procedure of the deconstruction contributes to increase productivity and to control the selective demolition costs, while optimizing its timing. In synthesis, this dissertation is going to range from a definition of the selective demolition actual status and the reuse of building construction and demolition waste materials (C&D), and to briefly outline advantages and relapses that are implied when applying technologies of the reversible kind to a hypothetical future building demolition, illustrating how to reuse, exploit and recycle waste materials.