Informazione e ciclo di vita dell'opera pubblica (SgIOP)

The paper refers to the area of complex projects of public works managed with the tools of public-private partnership (PPP); the paper returns theoretical and methodological premises and the first results of ongoing experimentation concerning university buildings. The aim is to highlight the importance of information management processes related to public works and to underline some basic questions: the construction work must be considered in its life cycle; in the life cycle, the direct and indirect relations between the different stages (planning, design, construction, operation) must be acknowledged; synergies and convergences should be found between methodological approaches and methods of project management and knowledge management; based on these assumptions, the information system assumes the role of area of application and, at the same time, the role of an operational tool. The development of public works under the approach named "PPP" (public private partnership) has highlighted the central role of the operational phase of the buildings and has also underlined the multiple and articulated consequences that the previous phases (e.g. design and construction) may have on the last one. The organization of information is therefore of strategic importance for the success of complex projects; in order to do that, the organization must be able to connect, combine and aggregate into a single management system the multiple and heterogeneous information coming from the different stages of the construction process. To this aim, knowledge management and project management methods and tools should be appropriately combined. The industrial perspective of the work - named Information Management System of the Public Work (SgIOP) - is the set up of procedural manuals to support the public administrations and to develop computerized information management systems to be used in project and facility management. The paper presents the organizational structure and the mode to represent the processes that are necessary for the construction of a procedural information system (SgIOP) in order to regulate the information produced/used in the different stages of the construction process relating to public works; planning, design, construction, verification and validation, inspection during construction, design of maintenance services, monitoring during the operation and maintenance. The first results obtained describe progress, in terms of effectiveness and efficiency for the public administration, of the processes and sub-processes affected by the use of SgIOP; the same results also lead to further investigations within the area of interest of BIM (Building Information Modeling).