9th National Conference – buildingSMART Italia

April 15, 2026

April 16th marks my first collaboration with buildingSMART Italia. We’ve been working in the same sector for ages, and yet we never crossed paths.

I’m not fond of everyone that’s been invited to speak but I am proud of my co-host, the brilliant engineer Silvia Gioja, and my guest will be a local entrepreneur who’ll speak about the difficulties of finding professionals that are as skilled as the market requires, and of the challenges of integrating infrastructural know-how and the technical capabilities needed for information modelling, everything in a speech titled BIMposter? which really makes me laugh.

I’ll also have the pleasure of bestowing an excellence award to some former colleagues, which is always nice. It’s happening in Rome.

architecture, engineering and construction

Summertime (though the living ain’t easy)

There is a particular kind of August laziness that likes to dress itself up as a fashionable pose: you can’t undertake significant projects in August, you’re not supposed to, apparently, you aren’t even supposed to read anything that’s too complicated (though I wonder, if you

August 1, 2026 6:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

hBIM Summer School: e voi cosa fate a fine estate?

Succede sempre, nelle prime ore di un workshop di modellazione informativa: uno studente che conosce bene Revit — famiglie, fasi, worksharing, tutto l’armamentario — si trova davanti al muro di unn edificio storico, storto in sezione, trapezoidale in pianta, e per un attimo non sa

July 29, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

Virginia Woolf’s Street Haunting

I have a profound loathing for Virginia Woolf’s writings. Not the woman, I think she was awesome. Her writing. It’s personal, and possibly shallow, and has mostly to do with my mother: she loved Virginia Woolf’s To The Lighthouse, and forced me to read it

July 26, 2026 9:00 am