TY - JOUR AU - Talamo, Cinzia AU - Paganin, Giancarlo AU - Atta, Nazly AU - Rota, Francesco PY - 2019/11/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Epistemic uncertainty, risk management and information: the role of the detailed design JF - TECHNE - Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment JA - Techne VL - IS - 18 SE - Essays and Viewpoint DO - 10.13128/techne-7523 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/techne/article/view/7523 SP - 164-173 AB - <p>Nowadays, the ability to face uncertainty and its related risks is increasingly required to the construction industry. This paper is based on the wide debate concerning the dual nature of uncertainty: <em>aleatory uncertainty</em> (also known as ontological uncertainty) which is associated to the randomness, and <em>epistemic uncertainty</em>, which is derived from missing or incomplete information, resulting in a partial knowledge of processes and of their characteristic phenomena.<br>In particular, the paper focuses on <em>epistemic uncertainty</em> in the context of the construction process, assuming the hypothesis that the detailed design – as the clarification moment in which design choices and technical details related to entire building life cycle are taken – is the proper venue for collecting and organizing all the required information and knowledge to reduce the uncertainty level and to identify, analyze and assess<span class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>the different types of risk (technological, process, economic, social, environmental, etc.) which can affect the building from its construction to its disposal.</p> ER -