Built heritage maintenance permanent yard for creative cities

A unitary control and forecast strategy able to guarantee performances levels in a satisfactory relationship with requirements is at the basis of the proposal of a new concept of maintenance on demand, pursued by the research team. Rethinking built resources maintenance in terms of logistics and kinematics optimization has been assumed as the opportunity for exploring the technological transfer of existing devices to a “non-structured environment”, redefining working procedures, operators, and times. Safety and security, quickness, environmental quality, flexibility, expandability, reliability, are the main requirements that support the definition of the “vertical yard” prototype. On a mechanical point of view the maintenance tools are conceived with a Cartesian geometry, supported by a climbing work platform. The prototype has a control unit able to manage several axes in a continuous and interpolated way. This is the main part of the system, and is connected with the decision support system of the coordination service. Specific software governs the mechanical system and interacts with the images collected by several cameras arranged along the axes.Remote control solutions have been prefigured with the help of mechanic and electronic engineers and architects for future creative cities.