A digitized environment for H&S and fire safety management in the heritage building “Palazzo Vecchio”

Target This contribution is part of a wider research dealing with management of complex activities in Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. The goal of the research is to individuate the best combination of building intervention and management strategies to reach both safety and comfort for occupants. The goal of this contribution is to describe the research first results with respect to H&S and fire safety engineering studies. Context Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Firenze and it is an ancient building, since its origins built to be the representative location of the political power of the town. Palazzo Vecchio hosts a lot of very important activities for the city and the goal of the public administration is to assure health and safety both to the workers and to the public visiting the building. Description Fire and Health and Safety requirements can be managed in such a complex framework only making use of innovative approaches preferably by using digitized design processes, in order to reach design objectives managing building constraints and design requirements within a Common Data Environment (CDE). Such study allow us to suggest some intervention on the building useful to reach the main objective (people safety). A large part of the research is related with building modelling to understand fire spread and exodus performances of the building, defining as consequence the management strategies to assure the fixed performances; this together with Health and Safety management for workers inside the building. The second part of the research is related with the creation of the CDE, that stores the validated and collected information and provides exactly the information to the decision maker. Future results and developments Important results are related to FSE design and to the definition of safety masterplan of the building. Future developments are related with the CDE construction.