Low Carbon Airport projects development using the Design Gap Risk Threshold approach

The paper discusses why to adopt a new method called Design Gap Risk Threshold to tackle communication process in the project team. The state of practice in airport projects in Italy has been compared with the Chicago O'Hare green renovation project. The results show that design team are lacking of proper communication management to allow the integrated design needed to achieve sus- tainability goals. Results have been applied in degree thesis and airport design competitions. The most relevant result of the research was about organisation: the project success depends upon the design process that goes towards communication processes full integration.