Case Study: Comparto 15 - Sanpolino District - Brescia
Name of organisation: Coop Casa Brescia
Stage of development: in progress
Year of finalization: 2008
Type of project: construction
Area: suburban
Scale: group of buildings
Type of building: Apartment in a block of five or less stories;
group of terraced houses
Number of units/dwellings: 369
Tenure: private ownership by individual households;
social rental
Street: Corso Bazoli
Postcode:
City: Brescia
Region/ County: Lombardia
Country: Italy
Last Update: 29.10.2014
Short Description
San Polino district is situated on the Est side few kilometers from the center of Brescia City. It is a sustainable district built up with the objective of environmental sustainability and high living comfort.
Consorzio ECO 15 is the operator who built up Comparto 15: it receive the Next Energy Award 2006, in the section “District /System of Building”.
Comparto 15 is crossed by the main road of the district named Corso Bazoli, which is crossed by another principal road –via Levi Sandri. Along via Levi Sandri, there are three buildings, which contains about 82 housings, a nursery school, a toy library and some business units (mainly shops).
Near them, there are 96 detached houses.
Then, along Corso Bazoli, there is the higher and bigger building (corpo E), which counts 191 housings. Here, at the ground floor, there is an auditorium/ theater and some business units.
The main part of the housings is characterized by opening located on the opposite sides of the building.
There is a mechanical ventilation plant which guarantee a good quality of the indoor air with an energy savings (efficiency at least 65%). In spring and summer, when external temperature is more than 17°C, the input fan is stopped and only the extraction one is working.
On the roofs, there are several PV plants-supplied by Brescia Municipality and A2A- for about 200 kWp (overall power).
Key Elements
Air Tightness
External insulation is composed by 8-10 cm of wooden wool, no thermal bridges, both along the vertical walls and on the roof.
Windows and Shading
- Windows are characterized by low tramittances, about 1,9 W/m2K.
- Shading appliance on the South facade to reduce solar insolation during summer but allowing free gains both in spring and summer.
- Openings on opposite sides of the housing to allow natural ventilation
Heating and Hot Water
- No methan gas combustion
- Connection to the distric heating system, with individual exchangers.
- PV plants (about 261 kWp)
- Mechanical ventilation with heat recovery
- Solar plants for warm water production (for detached houses)
Main Results
Lessons learned
Dwellers’ involvement is important in order to inform about the correct use of some appliances.
