Representation means to condense complex information: the updating of new media for the construction field

Purpose: Purpose of the paper is to present a few comments about the renewal of the representation techniques, explored in the building and construction areas, as methodological and operational equipments that the digital design tends to upgrade. Method: The foreword above the topic of this work summarizes the picture of the needs expressed by the construction field in Italy, focusing on the main problems that arise analyzing the current production system. In Italy it has been started a research project in the announcement "Energy Efficiency Industria 2015", named InnovANCE, which provides for the development of the first unified and interoperable database in the construction industry, identifying the strategies for integration in the construction process, from the design phase to construction and management. Result: These methods answer some urgency carried out by data complexity inherent with building construction, relating to each other different professionals in a new system, reforming the assets and the processing mode, requiring explicit coordination of activities and procedures. Discussion & Conclusion: We discuss on the added value of the outcomes of the research in progress, focusing on the use of operational methods that are best suited to manage the complexity information carried on in the project representation.