4. () DICAT: Dept. of Civil, Environmental & Architectural Buildings Engineering UNIVERSITY OF GENOA - ITALY Forensic aspects on damage to buildings by a nearby excavation: a case history Roberto PASSALACQUA () Session 4 – Saturday 25 September Lecture on:

6.  3000 m 2 Declared National Monument on December the 28 th, 1890 A Romanic nave - two aisles basilica, built during the XI th Century on a Paleo-Christian church, to venerate the town’s Saint Paragorio Cloister, with a binated-arched tomb (foregound) and a pronao side entrance. The Basilica was the town’s Cathedral up to 1572

12. CRITICAL ASPECTS, FROM THE FORENSIC POINT OF VIEW “blind” observation of the Urban / Land Plans’ Environmental Restricition Zoning border mixed Public / Private interests … bad Geologist ( “superficial” behaviour ) … … bad Civil Engineer ( “scarce” Geotechnical skills ) … … bad Property Owner / Manager ( driven by the “money first” rule, above all ) … difficult site conditions ( both Geotechnical and Geostructural )