ATER (Territorial agency for residential buildings) Sustainable Public Housing

The project has been developed in a peri-urban residential area of a municipality in the Province of Potenza (Filiano) and consists of buildings built applying the Green Building and Sustainable principles, methods and architectural techniques with particular reference to energy saving and renewable sources energy production systems.
The aim of the intervention was to apply the ITACA Protocol for the energy-environmental audit of buildings. In particular, the regional “Energy-environmental audit system of residential buildings” (made available by the Department of Public Works Infrastructure and Mobility of the Basilicata Region) is applied to evaluate the sustainability of the 18 new houses. The building techniques are aimed at achieving an adequate insulation of opaque horizontal and vertical components as well as vertical side walls and to eliminate thermal bridges using environmental friendly materials having high thermal performance, in order to achieve high thermal performance in the windowed components. Also systems to optimize water cycle have been realized (recovery and re-use). RES technologies and heating system with low temperature operation have been installed (underfloor heating systems, condensing boilers, photovoltaic, solar thermal).
The GP is an operative example of the results coming out from the application of procedures aimed at designing and realizing “energy-aware” building interventions comparing different design solutions quantitatively.