SMART REGENERATION OF PUBLIC UTILITY BUILDINGS

Energy renovation is instrumental for reaching the EU 2020 goals and smart districts are integral parts for the development of Smart Cities in the next future. At building scale, every structure runs differently and energy consumption profiles depends not only on climatic locations and technological quality of buildings, but also on occupancy levels and different types of public utility buildings (school, healthcare and homes for the elderly, office, university). A new smart regeneration approach will represent the central focus beyond a simple technological concept of Smart Building, where the buildings should be seen as part of a larger system of energy networks and whose diffusion within the city could be linked with the concept of urban energy network and physical “nodes”. Currently good practices and projects aims to promote the adoption of the key technology and to identify and remove barriers to deployment, still today approaches to record non-residential assets in a comparable structure have not been successfully implemented yet and data are fairly poor. An integrated approach is proficient to reveal the performance of the innovation, its technical requirement, as well as prerequisite required in terms of existing infrastructures, technical expertise, regulatory requirements and financial costs involved. An ongoing research from the PDTA Dept. is promoting a set of exemplary of public utility buildings and a portfolio of material, industrialized systems, smart and energy equipment solutions to be used in refurbishment projects, in order to stimulate a whole vision of the smart efficient buildings and different scenarios according the boundaries of a smart district level in Rome Municipality.