Università Roma Tre

- The European and national principles of environmental law.
- The Aarhus Convention: access to environmental information, participation in decision-making and access to instruments of appeal.
- The public debate in the new Public Contracts Code.
- The definition of public administration. The main Italian public administrations, with particular reference to those in the environmental field.
- The environmental authorizations with particular reference to “VIA”.
- Constitutional principles concerning public administrations and their activity.
- The administrative procedure law and the main administrative institutions: the administrative procedure, access to administrative documents, silent assent, “SCIA”, “conferenza di servizi”.
- An outline of public tenders proceedings.

- Teaching materials distributed by the Professor

• Basic rules on the procurement of public works
• Technical standards for the design phase
• Authority for the supervision of Public Contracts
• Territorial plans and urban plans: general principles
• Content of a plan
• Legal process of a plan
• Programming phase
• Logical Framework
• General objectives of the design phase
• Tasks of the Project Manager
• Basic principles of the design phase
• Design levels
• Preliminary design
• Multicriteria Analysis
• Definitive design
• Conference of the services
• Environmental Impact Study
• Environmental Impact Assessment
• High Council of Public Works
• Executive design
• Bill of quantities
• List of prices
• Invitation to tender
• Analysis of prices
• Reference standard pricing
• Safety plan
• Validation of the projects
• Qualified contractors
• Types of contracts
• Procedures of tenders
• Concession contract and project financing
• Criteria for the award of public works contracts
• Figures involved in the execution phase
• Management of payments
• Technical management
• Management of construction site safety
• Time management
• Cost management
• Management of potential arguments
• Technical tests and verifications
• Lifetime management and planned maintenance

"Efficiency in public works" written by Andrea Ferrante
(DEI editor)