Results from the application of a performance-based housing regulation in Cadoneghe, Italy

The article aims to report the experience of a little town, Cadoneghe suburbs of Padua, northern Italy., in managing a Performance based Building Code. Although pressed by a high housing demand, Cadoneghe asked a design team and a research team for a help to define new basic rules and control tools, to avoid the most usual failures of Italian mass housing projects. The administration pursued the application of these rules in four stages: ¯ Consultation to support design inception; ¯ Review of scheme design documents; ¯ Review of detail design documents; ¯ On-site inspection. The article describes the procedure and review strategy, the control tools that researches made up to support control phases, positive and negative outcomes.