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The deep crisis that has hit Italy since 2008 is perhaps the worst since the second World War to date. According to the last studies by the Italian National Association of Building Contractors, the construction sector in Italy saw an unprecedented decline: between 2008 and 2015, investments in new residential buildings have collapsed more than 60%, those in non-residential 35% and public works about 50%, altogether 70 billion less. Even in terms of builders, between 2008 and 2014, more than 100,000 small and mediu...

In Italian building tenders, the number of awarding environmental criteria is increasing. This gets out from a wide spread green sensitivity, but on the other side it could act as an opaque “green” screen on the decision process: the more the environmental require-ments are heavy awarded in the calls for bids, the more it is important their effective-ness instead of their standardization. Otherwise they work as a decision justifying fac-tor instead of a local tailored and valuable contribution to a better environm...