Sustainable architecture and modular construction : the new frontier of engineering

Building is a great thing and it is first of all having a purpose and sharing it with others. Building is participating in creation, in which everyone makes a piece. Building is therefore working. Every piece, every job, every moment that construction is made of, is because you need that thing and it’s because you stay. You build something, but through that thing you also build yourself. You become great. Man builds and in doing so builds himself. Europe is a patchwork of landscapes that reflect the evolutionary pattern of man’s past changes. The changes continue today to change our landscape and the environment, leaving large and often irreversible traces in the use of the territory. Europe has the highest percentage of land used for housing, production systems and infrastructure. Often conflicting demands arise in relation to land use, which requires decisions that will entail difficult compromises. Land is a finite resource: the way it is used is one of the main reasons for environmental change, with significant consequences on the quality of life and ecosystems. Most of the buildings in the world consume large amounts of energy and are built with polluting materials that degrade the environment with significant repercussions on human health. Sustainable Building comes from the need to respect the close relationship between man, building and environment, reducing as much as possible the impact of buildings on the health of people and the environment, using non-harmful materials and minimising the use of resources that cannot be renewed. It can therefore also be considered a cultural approach, the concept of which can be summarized in "building and living healthy" in order to protect the well-being and protection of our ecosystem. This work therefore aims to be an opportunity to immerse oneself in the great eternal challenge, that of the builder man, making everyone participate in his evolution. An adventure that has always been characterized by the goals achieved with new materials and the progress of scientific knowledge, today more than ever transformed by digital technologies such as those of the BIM methodology. Inside each work live the great challenges, the limits, the unexpected, the successes and the failures. In balance between art and technique, between intuition and scientific rigor.