Cresco Award rewards zero-emission schools

Cresco Award: the award dedicated to municipalities between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants went to Pesaro with the Green Public Procurement and sustainability project. The project was born from the idea of ​​creating a truly sustainable school building through the application of the principles of the circular economy, through a new approach to public procurement that transforms the quality requirements to protect the environment, citizens and end users, students and teachers, in technical requirements. The challenge is to obtain a building that is “friendly to the environment and to people”, capable of creating spaces that are conducive to studying and in harmony with the surrounding houses. “It is a zero-emission school – explains the mayor of Pesaro Matteo Ricci – at the top of energy efficiency and was born where previously there were little used sheds and from an energy point of view disastrous, they consumed a lot with a lot of energy dispersion. We have demolished and rebuilt and today the families and children who attend that school think they are in a school in Scandinavia, in northern Europe ”. The building envelope has been designed in order to minimize energy consumption. The result was obtained using the green public procurement process (GPP), transforming the environmental characteristics into mandatory and rewarding criteria such as to induce companies to offer a new high quality building. This school, delivered in September 2020, has not only a didactic function but a great pedagogical value: the students have nicknamed it “the school to save the planet”, as it is a concrete signal in the fight against climate change. continued Ricci – every day they go to school is a small lesson in environmental sustainability because they see how the city can be transformed and maybe it will help them to make a contribution in the future to win the biggest challenge for mankind, which is the overheating of the Land.”