The first year of activities of the “Observatory Claudio Ceccoli”, on the defects of the building structures

摘要

A research centre entitled “Observatory Claudio Ceccoli” focused on Forensic Engineer has beenrnestablished on January 2012 within the Department of Civil, Environmental and MaterialsrnEngineering (DICAM) of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Bologna. It represents one ofrnthe few Italian research centres which is entirely devoted in Forensic Engineer-related issues. Thernactivities of the centre involve the interaction of several “actors” such as the academia, practicalrnengineers, architects, construction companies, lawyers, insurances.rnThe main scientific objective of the centre is to promote research on the building defects through arnsystematic study of real cases as available from the Court of Bologna. The main practical objectivernis the development of a web-based database collecting all the juridical cases available from thernCourt of Bologna involving defects on building structures.rnThe present paper illustrates the aims of the centre and presents some results from the first year ofrnactivities