Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “CAM Edilizia 2025: Towards Measurable Sustainabi”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
CAM Edilizia 2025: Towards Measurable Sustainability
From BIM to LCA, from material traceability to construction site management: how the new Minimum Environmental Criteria (CAM) strengthen quality, verifiability, and responsibility in public works.
The Ministerial Decree of November 24, 2025, published in the Official Gazette No. 281 of December 3, 2025, updates the framework of the Minimum Environmental Criteria for construction introduced with DM 256/2022 and subsequently integrated by the 2024 corrective measure. The provision, effective from February 2, 2026, strengthens the practical effectiveness of the CAM and their coherence with the design, tender, and execution phases of public works, marking a significant step for sustainability in the construction sector.
CAM Edilizia 2025: Regulatory Framework and System Objectives
The new CAM Edilizia 2025, mandatory for all public tenders under the Public Contracts Code (Legislative Decree 36/2023), in implementation of the National Action Plan for Green Public Procurement (PAN GPP), aim to reduce the environmental impact of construction works and promote innovative, transparent, and measurable processes, in continuity with major European sustainability policies – the Green Deal, EU Taxonomy, EPBD IV, and the DNSH principle – contributing to climate change mitigation.
This is not a paradigm shift, but an operational strengthening: clearer and verifiable criteria, designed to make sustainability a structural and measurable component of construction quality. In this context, the CAM also represent a significant tool for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda.
What are the objectives of the CAM in construction?
Reduce the environmental impact of the construction sector, responsible for a significant share of greenhouse gases.
Promote circular models of production, consumption, and disposal, encouraging the recovery and recycling of construction materials.
Promote the energy efficiency of buildings.
Incentivize the use of sustainable construction materials.
What changes in the 2025 CAM
With the 2025 update, the CAM definitively move beyond their role as a "green" annex to tender procedures and become a structural tool of public design. Environmental criteria are integrated into different decision-making levels – from planning to the Technical and Economic Feasibility Project (PFTE), through to the tender and the construction site – and directly influence technical choices, materials, and execution methods.
The added value lies in verifiability: sustainability is no longer entrusted to generic declarations, but to measurable requirements throughout the life cycle of the work. The focus thus shifts from formal compliance to the technical responsibility of designers, companies, and contracting authorities, who are called upon to demonstrate with data, documents, and controls the real environmental quality of the solutions adopted.
Scope of Application and Responsibility
The CAM Edilizia 2025 significantly expand their scope of application, no longer limited to buildings alone but extended to structures and civil engineering works, except for cases governed by specific sectoral CAM – such as the CAM for Roads (DM 05/08/2024) – which must always be applied in their current version.
The goal is to ensure a coherent and uniform environmental approach across the entire scope of public contracts related to design and works supervision services, including construction, renovation, maintenance, and adaptation interventions.
The provisions also apply to urbanization works that offset, totally or partially, the contribution required for the issuance of the building permit, or carried out under an agreement, by private entities or on listed buildings, as far as compatible with conservation needs. In these cases, the CAM aim to combine heritage protection and environmental sustainability.
Simultaneously, the decree strengthens the theme of responsibility: compliance with environmental criteria cannot be based solely on the supplier's declaration but must be demonstrated through means of proof and documentary checks, integrated into the design and control process.
Building Envelope and Comfort
In the CAM Edilizia 2025, the building envelope assumes a central role in overall environmental quality. Performance requirements are strengthened with attention to air tightness, thermo-hygrometric and acoustic comfort, shifting the focus from design performance alone to the real behavior of the building over time.
Among the main novelties are more precise criteria for window installation joints, which refer to the correct design of construction nodes, and the expansion of provisions on moisture remediation in existing buildings. These are accompanied by more detailed guidelines on water management, aimed at improving durability and healthiness.
The envelope is no longer evaluated only in terms of energy efficiency, but as a key element of real sustainability, capable of impacting comfort, maintenance, and the life cycle of the work, in line with the evolution of the regulatory framework.
LCA-LCC and Carbon Footprint
The CAM Edilizia 2025 incorporate the approach of the Public Contracts Code regarding the Technical and Economic Feasibility Project (PFTE) and the Work Sustainability Report, strengthening the link between environmental assessments and design choices. The building life cycle thus becomes a structural reference for guiding materials, technical solutions, and intervention strategies from the initial phases.
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), in coordination with Life Cycle Costing (LCC), and the Carbon Footprint do not constitute an automatic obligation for every intervention, but assume the role of unambiguous methodological references.
Source: Read the original article | Published: January 09, 2026