(•) DICAT: Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Buildings Engineering UNIVERSITY OF GENOA - ITALY

Forensic aspects on damage to buildings by a nearby excavation: a case history

Roberto PASSALACQUA (•)

Session 4 – Saturday 25 September Lecture on:

3000 m2

Declared National Monument on December the 28th, 1890A Romanic nave - two aisles basilica, built during the XIth Century on a

Paleo-Christian church, to venerate the town’s Saint ParagorioCloister, with a binated-arched tomb (foregound) and a pronao side entrance.The Basilica was the town’s Cathedral up to 1572

CRITICAL ASPECTS, FROM THE FORENSIC POINT OF VIEW

• “blind” observation of the Urban / Land Plans’

Environmental Restricition Zoning border

• mixed Public / Private interests

• … bad Geologist ( “superficial” behaviour ) …

• … bad Civil Engineer ( “scarce” Geotechnical skills ) …

• … bad Property Owner / Manager ( driven by the

“money first” rule, above all ) …

• difficult site conditions ( both Geotechnical and Geostructural )