The Industrial Building Heritage : first steps for the Damages Evaluation of Innocenti-Maserati Structural Plant

The problems concerning the requalification of dismissed and, since many years, abandoned industrial plants and sites require different approaches and competencies. The authors have been involved in many different cases bounded to the industrial activities which have been developed during the early first half of the last century around Milano city, some of them have been firstly dismissed at the beginning of 80’s years. In many cases, problems concerning the land pollution, and the prior related costs of the land drainage have stopped the different necessary approaches regarding the assessment on the actual conservation and damage evaluation of existing abandoned buildings. Among these , works for land drainage and reclamation are planned, some in progress; in particular the “Innocenti-Maserati firm” is one of a major remaining industrial complex in the suburban district of Milano, with its 4 industrial hangars, completed dismissed and emptied out, and showing the steel bearing structures in their impressive shape of large dimension (figure 1). The paper focuses on the evaluation of the actual mechanical and physical properties of the structural elements, no less the modelling about one of the dismissed buildings; in particular the building under investigation is the oldest of the four. The paper illustrates a brief history of the Innocenti Milan Industrial Compound, the description of the structures, the on-site investigation and Laboratory tests for the evaluation of the overall distribution and degree of corrosion attack in steel structural elements.