On Friday 24 January Massimiliano Caruso (CEO of OWTC and President of Active House Italia), participated in the round table, within the kermes of Klimahouse 2020, which compared environmental quality certifications.
The debate was attended by representatives of the most authoritative and most requested certification bodies within the construction industry. In addition to Eng. Caruso, on behalf of Active House Italia, Eng. Marco Caffi – Director of Green Building Council Italy, Arch. Leopoldo Busa – Founder of Biosafe Dipl. Günther Gantioler – Scientific Director of Passive House and Activehouse Italy, Eng. Mauro Carlino – Habitech (ARCA certification), Eng. Giulia Menegazzi – Habitech (WELL protocol) tooken the floor.
Massimiliano was initially asked to present The Active House Italia association, founded in Milan in 2016 and officially recognized as a member of the international Active House Alliance in 2017. Massimiliano was then asked to illustrate the Active House validation protocol and to put also highlight the merits of the protocol.
The President of Active House Italia thus has the opportunity to explain how this protocol is very user friendly and how, through the validation radar of the performance of an Active House building, it is also a valid tool, in the design phase, to create a Road Map that can be easily read and used by the Client.
Massimiliano also explained how the Active House radar, for designers, can become a valid tool to support strategic decisions. Finally, the speakers highlighted how among the various certification protocols, environmental performance and eco-sustainability of a building, a virtuous integration work is taking place and this allows to favor the use of the results of a protocol to receive, quickly and with reduced costs, the certifications of other protocols.
All this in the certainty, now clearly expressed by the international and now Italian real estate market, that a building with an environmental certification, such as those presented, immediately generates a significant surplus value of the asset itself compared to an equal building without environmental certification.