Our design activity is never ends in itself: it reflects our Clients' strong interest in investing in urban transformation or the recovery of existing buildings. Nearly all of our projects are followed through to the construction phase, and we are almost always also entrusted with construction supervision and/or project management during the construction phase.
The best prerequisite for successfully managing a construction site is precisely the thoroughness of the prior design phase. An inadequately developed design will certainly result in higher costs and greater uncertainty regarding completion timelines. On-site activities are also linked to the production of construction accounting records, an area to which we devote particular attention and resources, as most of our construction sites are based on “tailor-made” contracts. Logbooks, registers, summaries, progress reports (SAL), and payment certificates constitute the standard documentation—typically updated on a monthly basis—for all our construction sites.
The problem with a construction site is that everyone thinks they know what it’s like, without ever having actually been there. To “outsiders,” it’s nothing but dust, noise, and chaos. But a construction site is one of the few places that’s left where you don’t have to talk—you have to do. Because here, olny facts matter. You can promote yourself better than anyone else, but if you make a mistake, it always shows here. In this sense, the construction site is ruthless, but it’s also incredibly fair.
And here something happens that seems almost impossible outside: people who have nothing in common, they work together—not because there’s a motivational sign hanging above them, but because that’s just how it is here. And so labels, prejudices, and distances simply disappear. On scaffolding 40 meters above the ground, you don’t care if the person next to you speaks like you or comes from far away. The only thing that matters is that the job gets done right. A construction site looks like chaos from the outside, but it’s actually one of the purest forms of order you’ll ever see. An order built on respect, trust, responsibility, and people who know that, on their own, they couldn’t build anything.
And while outside people argue about how the world should work, inside a construction site—without grand speeches or slogans—we’re already making this little world work.
