L’AQUILA – The process for the recovery of the Cinema Massimo continues, with the management resolution entrusting the verification of the final project of the first section approved.
With managerial resolution no. 2717 of 14 June, the task of the service was entrusted verification of the final project of the first section relating to the consolidation, recovery and extraordinary maintenance works of the plants of Cinema Massimoin Corso Federico II.
After 2009 earthquake, the structure was affected by consolidation works completed at the end of 2018. As regards the systems, just over 4 million euros were allocated through two CIPE resolutions (48/2016 and 24/2018). In 2020, the approval of the council resolution relating to the technical and economic feasibility project for the same sum allocated, of which approximately three million for the auction-based works and one million available to the administration. For the works, 361 thousand euros for demolitions, 969 thousand euros for structural works, 951 thousand euros for construction works and 686 thousand euros for electrical, mechanical, water and special systems.
In 2021, the market survey for the expression of interest for the assignment of engineering and architectural services relating to the definitive design, awarded in October of the same year and ready at the beginning of 2022. The process then continued, passing through additions requested by the Superintendence, until the verification of the definitive project, entrusted in recent days to the company Di Emidio Progetti Srl of Rome. Specifically, this concerns the “verification of the Final Project 1st excerpt for an amount equal to €38,506.36 plus social security charges at 4% equal to €1,540.25 and VAT at 22% equal to €8,810.25, for a total total gross of 48,856.86”.
Meanwhile, the project for the second batch of works for plant maintenance is being unblocked. The cinema will however change its skin, adapting to the innovations and changes of the last 12 years: there will no longer be a single hall, but will become 4. The historic 348-seat hall will be renovated, another two will be used for film screenings, with 72 seats each, and one with 64 seats for theatrical performances and other types of shows. This is what was learned from the consequent determination 2023 Services Conference; the Municipality of L’Aquila will now have to accept some prescriptions received from the Superintendence, disability manager and Fire Brigade. With the works of the first lot – completed in 2018 – the Cinema Massimo was consolidated and made safe after the damage suffered by the destructive fury of the earthquake. The work on the second lot, which cost around 4 million euros, presented problems that lasted for years.
