TEENERGY FOR SYNERGY: A PRACTICAL TOOL FOR ENERGY EFFICIENCY IN THE SCHOOL DESIGN

In the next years, in correspondence of the crisis of the new buildings production, there will be a renaissance of the urban and building refurbishment, in particular of the existing public domain. The construction industry, as a result of this situation, has need to find new revamp strategies to individuate new objectives and new financing and technical tools. The Horizon 2020 EU program, with the pillar Social challenges, includes studies and research related to Energy sources, clean and efficient and Society inclusive, innovative and secure. Therefore, it is necessary to rethink the future of construction sector and in particular the existing public assets, according to new challenges and new strategies. The school buildings’ safety and their energy requalification need to be primary goals in order to save this building sector, since they create an occasion to bring development, to contribute to urban regeneration, and to save the Italian construction industry from the present situation of emergency. It is necessary to give an answer at this necessity, focusing on the implementation of a common method on decisional support for the Public Administrations, in order to find the basic technical indications and criteria to decrease the public investments in energy purchase improving the energy performances and the indoor comfort in the school buildings. The challenge of this work is to demonstrate the effectiveness of instruments and financial resources in promoting technological innovation, in this specific construction industry, as a vehicle to transform obsolete schools buildings, in Nzeb, as indicated from the latest European legislation on energy performance of the buildings.