Earthquake-resistant building

The last entry of this list is il sopralluogo dopo il sisma, and the first noun is the one English cannot match with a single word. Il sopralluogo is put together from sopra, over, and il luogo, the place: the act of going onto the place and looking at it with your own eyes, whatever the place happens to be. The same noun serves the officer who attends a crime scene, the surveyor who goes out to a building, the fire brigade after a fire, the film crew choosing where to shoot, and the engineer of this page walking round a damaged block. English changes its word with the trade and never keeps the idea: « a site visit » for the surveyor, « a scene examination » for the officer, « a recce » for the film crew, « an inspection » for the engineer. The verb behaves the same way — fare un sopralluogo, effettuare un sopralluogo — where English has to say who is going and why. Learn one of those four and you have learnt a trade, not the Italian noun.