Functional recovery in an urban industrial area - methods and tools to integrate efficiency and sustainability in the pre-design phase

Abstract

Within the functional recovery project of the urban industrial area which originally hosted British American Tobacco (BAT) in Bologna (1950-2007), the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA), contributed to identifying priority issues for "responsible design for sustainable energy management". The outlined innovative solutions have been collected in a Technical Annex to tender on "Industrial Research Centre" Design Competition. A comprehensive and holistic approach has been followed in order to develop a framework whereby design solutions can be described in terms of objectives, strategies and targets. Special applications on water balance have been developed to assess water needs, mainly concerning the pre-design phase. © 2012 WIT Press.