La CARTA Abitare Mediterraneo. Condivisione di un sistema aperto di qualificazione e valorizzazione dell’innovazione. Sustainable innovation in Mediterranean Basin Sharing an Open System to integrate technological and architectural innovation for low energy building

The international Agreement on common criteria of “Abitare Mediterraneo” is a strategic tool to stimulate the participation of major stakeholders in the process of transforming the built environment and to share the objectives of sustainable housing project, focusing on the building life cycle and its components, for retrofitting, new construction and re-functionalization in the Mediterranean context. ABITARE MEDITERRANEO is a research project funded by the Tuscany Region, developed in collaboration with the University of Florence and 12 Tuscan companies, to create an open system as a platform of knowledge that promotes the improvement of environmental performance of the building as well as, provides participants with a key competitive tool in the promotion. The goal is to create a Centre of Expertise on sustainable architecture in the Mediterranean area increasing of competitiveness in the building sector by fostering the synergic collaboration between university research and regional enterprises, and by stimulating experimentation and continuous innovation in an OPEN SYSTEM: continuous updating of criteria and procedures in order to re-define a quality-based methodology for integrated conservation of existing buildings; defining new building models able to meet changing customers profiles, rising standards of indoor comfort in hot and cold season and the necessity of a more aware management of the available energy resources.