Matteo Paolo Giovanni Fiori

ICAR/10 - Architectural engineering

Matteo Fiori is a civil engineer with a PhD in Building Engineering Ergonomics. He conducts research and teaches at the Politecnico di Milano on degree courses relating to construction. His research is dedicated to three areas.
The first is Building Pathology, which is concerned with developing methods and tools dedicated to identifying abnormalities, failures and defects in buildings by reconstructing the sequence of events leading from a defect to a failure.
The second area is the relationship between performance and technology, which is concerned with optimising the use of appropriate technologies according to project design performance requirements, which are often connected with energy.
The third area of research is the relationship between the building and the city, particularly with regard to the interaction of green roofs in relation to environmental mitigation (water, energy and particulate dispersion).
His teaching activities consist of his university courses (Building Pathology and Diagnostics, Technical Architecture), Masters Courses and ongoing training courses for professionals.
Since 1998 he has worked on standards as an expert member of the Construction Products and Systems Committee of UNI (EnteNazionaleItaliano di Unificazione), sitting on the “Membrane roofing and waterproofing” sub-committee.
As part of this activity, he has also directly coordinated various working groups (UNI 11235:Instructions for the design, execution, testing and maintenance of green roofs; UNI 11345:Testing activities for the design, execution and management phases for green roofs; UNI 11442: Criteria for wind-resistant design of membrane roofs), providing his with extremely detailed knowledge of the Italian and European systems of technical standards, particularly regarding so-called “state-of-the-art rules”.
Since 2002 he has been a member of the steering committee of AIVEP (AssociazioneItaliana Verde Pensile, the Italian green roof association), of which he was chairman until 2008.
He has published essays, articles and papers dedicated to building pathology and construction technology.