With the activation of the "Architectural Photogrammetry Course", the laboratory was transferred to the Drawing Institute of the Engineering Faculty and located in the monumental complex of S. Scolastica, restored by the University and entrusted in management to the Institute itself.
Consistent with the objectives of the CIPA (Comité International de Photogrammétrie Architecturale), in order to contribute to the establishment of an international photogrammetric archive of architectural heritage and in implementation of the project aimed at "Photogrammetry and protection of the territory", presented on May 30, 1981 round table of the exhibition-conference of Architectural Photogrammetry, organized in Bari in May 1981, the laboratory launched an awareness campaign on photogrammetric techniques with training courses in schools of all levels, starting from elementary school.
In 1985 the Agreement was signed with an agreement for the common use of photogrammetric-electronic equipment between the Puglia Region and the University of Bari. On this occasion, the region purchased the photogrammetric restitutor Wild A40, thanks above all to the enthusiasm of the 'Councilor for Culture, lawyer Pasquale Calvario, whom we see in the following photos in his visit to the laboratory..

The agreement provided for the start of the census and documentation of the Cultural Heritage of Puglia and, for this purpose, the Department of Culture of the Puglia Region had displaced the young people of the ex-law 285, trained in 1981 at the center of S. Scholastica. at the laboratory with the "Trulli Project" of the Puglia Region for the census and cataloging of the trulli of the Itria Valley. With the change of the Councilor the staff of the Region was withdrawn from the Center and despite the national and international conferences of the years 1986, 1988, 1991, 1993 and 1996 the center was unable to take off. The Superintendency for Monuments of Bari has never participated in the laboratory initiatives for the use of new technologies in the documentation, while the Archaeological Superintendency of Puglia, then a guest of the University of Bari, began to press for the transfer of its headquarters to the Complex of Santa Scolastica.
In 1993 a mysterious series of vandalism began, which continued in 1996 and sharpened in 1997 with the destruction of frames of the arched reliefs, a raid to make order and apologize and further vandalism aimed at damaging the equipment. With the abandonment of the structure by the Polytechnic, which took over the University in the management of the Complex, the Laboratory was transferred to the University Campus, while the photogrammetric restitutor, of regional ownership, remained abandoned in the complex and nothing was worth the denials to the authorities .