Design/construction and real estate stakeholder group. A dialogue between Paolo Civiero and EugenPănescu, Daniele Russolillo, Graziella Roccella, Luca Talluri

In the last ten years of economic disease, architects, engineers and construction companies had been facing many and more revolutions to sustain growth and lead innovation in urban areas. Most of this innovations concern design, planning and P&CM as well as tools, regulations upgrade and protocols. All these innovations promote sustainability, efficiency and security, technological advances in materials and products, according with a 4.0 industrial revolution towards industrialized building systems. The Smart Cities lighthouse projects already demonstrate that solutions to integrate smart homes and buildings, smart grids (electricity, district heating, telecom, water, etc.), energy storage, electric vehicles, smart charging infrastructures and ICT platforms based on open specification, are feasible though expensive.On the other side different approaches are possible in built environment: urban regeneration and/or urban regeneration through cultural creativity and social inclusion, transition to ZEED, rehabilitation, reconstruction, recovering.The participants in the VRT are key note representatives of three European Design, Construction and Real Estate promoters of cities of tomorrow (Architects Council of Europe(1), Federcasa(2), and Planet Idea(3)).