Technical and economic evaluation of a building recovery by public-private partnership in Rome (Italy)

The purpose of this article is to present the assessment procedure developed and operatively applied to verify the technical, regulatory, and financial conditions for implementing an intervention for the regeneration of a public buildings through a public/private/partnership operation. The proposed procedure aims to represent a methodological approach to support a public administration in: (i) defining the compatibility and sustainability of repurposing public buildings; (ii) proposing actual sustainable projects for private financing; (iii) assessing the soundness of the potential offers by private parties. Operatively speaking, the procedure was applied to the possibility of transforming a school (owned by the Province of Rome), located in Rome’s Testaccio neighborhood.