A Vademecum for the Project Management of the Italian Construction Public Sector

The present research aims to gather the most impactful political, economic and practical developments of the last 50 years, providing a vademecum to put into practice as a panacea for an alarming issue that concerns the Italian construction industry: the abundance of sites abandoned or put on hold indefinitely in Italy. The vademecum is intended to support ex-ante the professional figures that in Italy manage the construction projects and sites to solve the issues that may affect the success of them. The present research moves from a study that I conducted in London for "THE Italian-Construction Work Sites-On-Hold issue finds a solution in the delayed adoption of the pm role within the process." as my final dissertation in 2020, aimed at addressing the issue mentioned above as a direct link to the absence of construction project management within the Italian scenario. The hypothesis previously investigated are here still considered valid and constitutes the base from which a vademecum of good practices to conduct and manage a construction project as new research, is built. In the last few decades, the Italian context, as reported by many studies (Caviglia, 2013; Camprini et al., 2013; Infantino, 2021; Cristinzano et al., 2022) has been presenting a multitude of decrees, laws, norms and regulations that have impacted exponentially on the blocked construction sites resolution and completion. In this research, indeed, after having collected a wholeness of data and progresses, providing the main reglementary and law advancements, and having displayed a critique to the main already present discussion on the topic, it is provided a selection of two cases study of unsuccessful construction public projects. These latter are analysed to understand where and why the construction industry failed them, highlighting the legislative and bureaucratic component of the issue. Finally, the presentation of the vademecum that uses the construction project management best practices to guide future projects to success and avoid the issue of construction sites left on-hold.