The paper illustrates the application of an Italian assesment tool on a selected common case study which is a building in Timisoara, Romania. ITACA is one of the most popular tool in Italy that considers a general approach in terms of sustainability on building stock: it allows to assess the overall impact of a building construction or refurbishment activity on the environment, therefore its degree of sustainability. The tool allows to estimate the level of sustainability of a building measuring its performance against 34 criteria grouped into 19 categories aggregated into 5 macro areas of assessment: Quality of the site, Resources consumption, Environmental quality, Indoor quality, Quality of the service. By using the ITACA protocol it should be possible to assess the building considering techni-cal and environmental matters, check for requirements and if theses are fulfilled. The final re-sult is a certificate that expresses how sustainable is the building, indicated by a score in numbers. This tool offers the potentiality to evaluate and to compare different design alternatives on the same building by considering their grade of sustainability and their influence in the overall system in the final score (e.g adding thermal insulation, using renewable energies). A design choice may weight in the global sustainability more than another, this approach can be helpful to evaluate the threshold of convenience of an intervention in the direction of the sustainable practice and incentives.
The ITACA assessment methodology
BRUNORO, Silvia
2012
Abstract
The paper illustrates the application of an Italian assesment tool on a selected common case study which is a building in Timisoara, Romania. ITACA is one of the most popular tool in Italy that considers a general approach in terms of sustainability on building stock: it allows to assess the overall impact of a building construction or refurbishment activity on the environment, therefore its degree of sustainability. The tool allows to estimate the level of sustainability of a building measuring its performance against 34 criteria grouped into 19 categories aggregated into 5 macro areas of assessment: Quality of the site, Resources consumption, Environmental quality, Indoor quality, Quality of the service. By using the ITACA protocol it should be possible to assess the building considering techni-cal and environmental matters, check for requirements and if theses are fulfilled. The final re-sult is a certificate that expresses how sustainable is the building, indicated by a score in numbers. This tool offers the potentiality to evaluate and to compare different design alternatives on the same building by considering their grade of sustainability and their influence in the overall system in the final score (e.g adding thermal insulation, using renewable energies). A design choice may weight in the global sustainability more than another, this approach can be helpful to evaluate the threshold of convenience of an intervention in the direction of the sustainable practice and incentives.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
