Managing safety and quality on construction sites Trough Validation

This document relates to the validation procedure for the Politecnico di Torino “Progetto Raddoppio”. In Italy, following the introduction of European regulations and current national legislation, validation management of the “construction process” is acquiring strategic value and aims to reduce problems encountered at works completion stage. In most cases at present, validation is via formal documentation control by the purchaser, whereas in other cases such as this, validation is performed by an external authority and involves systematic project and contractual document monitoring. The final validation management report should cover the entire procedure, from preliminary to executive project design. In the case study, the validation procedure was applied only in the executive design stage, and therefore the problems encountered as indicated under “observations” mainly relate to typical aspects concerning this project stage, e.g. technological difficulties and those relating to works management and construction site organisation (work safety management and environmental impact management). This document aims to clarify observations recorded in the validation procedure, explaining how these influenced the technological choices and works management aspects in the executive stage, including safety management, regarding both operators and environmental impact.