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"Società Nazionale Officine di Savigliano": The History through Case Studies
Author(s)
Maddalena Pisanu and Paolo Sanjust
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2017.05.003
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DICAAR (Department of Environmental and Civil Engineering and Architecture), Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari 09124, Italy
ABSTRACT
Società Nazionale Officine
di Savigliano was a company specialized in railway constructions, metallic
bridges and mechanical and electrical constructions. Between the end of the
19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the company became well
known in Europe especially for metallic constructions, having built the
majority of metal bridges in the north of Italy such as the famous Paderno
bridge (1887-1889), one of the biggest arch bridge for the period. In the 1930s, the company built some interesting examples of
steel frame buildings, applying the electrical welding technique, acquired in
industrial constructions, to civil buildings. The steel frame was quite rare in
Italian buildings, especially in the matter of civil constructions and Savigliano
made an effort in modernizing the Italian construction system, through research
and innovation. The paper will discuss some examples of Savigliano’s works dating back
to 1930, and in particular, it will present a specific example never studied
before: the hangar at the Elmas military airport, in Cagliari (Sardinia). The
building is worth mentioning for the innovations experimented, as the new
welding technique allowed a series of improvements in the construction process.
KEYWORDS
History of the building trades, metallic construction, electrical welding, building techniques.
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