SAIE 2025 – BIMtalk

October 22, 2025

On October 23rd, I’ve been invited by our local agency for the government of State Property (Agenzia del Demanio) to talk about the value of digitalisation in the construction industry. I’ll focus on the concept of ROI (Return on Investment): is it appropriate to use that term, when it comes to innovation? It’ll be fun.

art and fashion

Pellizza da Volpedo’s Masterpieces in Milan

I was able to catch this exhibition during its last few days, and I’m glad I did. Pellizza da Volpedo: i capolavori, hosted at the Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM) in Villa Reale, is a major retrospective dedicated to one of Italy’s most compelling painters between

January 23, 2026 9:00 am

books and literature

SciFi Friday — The Diamond Lens by Fitz-James O’Brien (1858) — Part 1

FROM a very early period of my life the entire bent of my inclinations had been toward microscopic investigations. When I was not more than ten years old, a distant relative of our family, hoping to astonish my inexperience, constructed a simple microscope for me

January 23, 2026 1:00 am

architecture, engineering and construction

What should NOT be in a name

Last week I wrote a litle thing on how a naming convention can help: The decision tree of this process was summarised as follows: It’s a touchy subject, I won’t pretend I didn’t know that, and there was an uprising of people objecting, trying to

January 21, 2026 9:00 am