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Conference “Building with steel: from production to architecture”
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caff System Srl is a company based in Ostuni (Brindisi, Italy) specialising in the production of industrial shelving. It creates and strengthens synergies with architects and engineers interested in the use of steel for architectural projects in different sectors, from residential to commercial and industrial. This was also the target audience of the seminar “Building with steel: from production to architecture”, held on December 2nd, 2016 at the Auditorium of the former Santa Clara Convent in Brindisi after the success of the first edition of the event, held on February in Bari. This technical information meeting was organised by Scaff System in cooperation with the Order of Architects of Brindisi, the Bari Section of AIDIA and Edilportale, and it was sponsored by ADI. Essentially, it dealt with the use of steel and its possible applications, including the green building field. The subject was treated with a multidisciplinary approach, thanks to the several professionals and corporate representatives as the conference speakers. The aim was providing a picture as complete as possible of this material and its characteristics, which enable to create modular, earthquake-proof and light architectural solutions for faster and cheaper building operations.
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The greetings of the President of the Order of Architects of Brindisi, Maurizio Marinazzo, were followed by the following speeches: Scaff System’s CEO Licio Tamborrino, with a report on the “Steel industrialisation and technologies”; Angelo Maiolino, a freelancer talking about the constructive potential of steel; and Maria Cristina Angiuli and Aldo Greco, architects working for the architectural firm AG (Casamassima, Bari), analysing the development of steel architecture, from the design to the construction stages. The second part of the seminar saw the participation of the following speakers: Alessandro Largo, a material engineer from CETMA (Centre for the Design & Technology of Materials, Brindisi), dealing with “Ecoinnovative solutions for building infill walls on framed metal structures”; Leo Pedone from Pedone Working Srl, with a report titled “HI-LOW house: an envelope in hemp and high energy efficiency lime and a metal support structure”; and Francesco Monno from Axalta Coating Systems (Cavenago Brianza, MB), a major supplier of liquid and powder coatings worldwide, who examined the issue of “Metallic finishes: applications in the field of architecture and design.” For further information: www.scaffsystem.it and www.axaltacs.com