A quality system for social housing programs

In 2004 ITACA (Federal Association of Italian Regions) approved a system to assess sustainable building. This system is named ITACA Protocol and the Italian Regions utilize it to ensure the quality of social housing. In October 2008, in Rome, there was a meeting with the Ministry of Public Works Director, to utilize ITACA Protocol for National Social Housing Program flats. ITACA Protocol is a public tool and it is free.

http://www.regione.piemonte.it/edilizia/contributi/dwd/agg2.pdf ;

http://www.regione.piemonte.it/edilizia/dwd/edilizia/rev2.xls ;
http://www.regione.piemonte.it/edilizia/dwd/edilizia/33.pdf .

Further information:

http://www.itaca.org/

UNEP-SBCI Round Table

In Madrid from 2nd to 4th december 2008, there was the UNEP-SBCI round table on sustainable building.

In Madrid case studies on sustainable building were illustrated and guideline were proposed to develop them.

The UNEP-SBCI round table is a part the work to develop the Copenaghen Protocol (December 2009).

http://www.unepsbci.org/

Law to develop sustainable building in Italy

The Conference of the Regional Presidents approved a bill on sustainable building. The bill regulates the land, the buildings and the sustainability certification.

PROPOSTA DI LEGGE AD INIZIATIVA DELLA GIUNTA REGIONALE
CONCERNENTE: “NORME PER L’EDILIZIA SOSTENIBILE”

INDICE
Art. 1 - Finalità
Art. 2 - Definizioni
Art. 3 - Funzioni della Regione, delle Province e dei Comuni
Art. 4 - Sostenibilità ambientale negli strumenti di governo del territorio
Art. 5 - Risparmio idrico e permeabilità dei suoli urbanizzati
Art. 6 - Fonti energetiche rinnovabili
Art. 7 - Criteri di selezione dei materiali da costruzione
Art. 8 - Certificazione di sostenibilità degli edifici
Art. 9 - Linee guida e disciplinare tecnico
Art. 10 - Calcolo degli indici e dei parametri edilizi
Art. 11 - Incentivi
Art. 12 - Contributi regionali
Art. 13 - Formazione e informazione
Art. 14 - Sanzioni
Art. 15 - Norma finanziaria
Art. 16 - Disposizioni transitorie e finali

download:

http://www.itaca.org/documenti/news/pdl%20bio%20itaca%20marzo%2007-1.pdf

information:

info@itaca.org

Italian Incentives to develop sustainable building - Insurance Companies

RAS (Insurance Company) and iiSBE Italia approved incentives to develop sustainable builiding in Italy.

These incentives reduce the policy cost for builder and buyer, when ITACA Protocol is applied and the level 2 of ITACA Protocol is achieved.

Benefit for builders

All Risk: - 15 % off on the rate applied;

Benefit for buyers

Fire: - 10 % off on policy cost.

Insurances Companies which signed the agreement:

RAS:
Torino, via Stampatori, 21, tel. 011 5608512 (C. Anglesio);
Milano (sede di San Donato Milanese), via Caviaga, 4, tel. 02 52047024 (G. Rocca);
Roma, via Don Giovanni Verità, 3, tel. 06 328561.

Italian incentives to develop sustainable building - Banks

Intesa San Paolo Banking Group, Regione Piemonte and ITACA (Federal Association of Italian Regions) approved a program to reduce home loan cost.

It is possible to have these incentives if the ITACA Protocol is applied and if the building achieves the 2nd level.

ITACA Protocol is a rating system for social housing, that Italian Regions have developed. ITACA is a member of SBC Italia and this association assesses sustainable buildings.

The builder and the buyer have incentives on home loans, if the builder presents a certification that confirms the correct application of ITACA Protocol.

Benefits for builder:

Euribor 6 mount (360) + spread: range 0.80 % - 1.75 %;

Cost of prliminary hearing: 0.20 %;

Loan in amortization: spread max. 2.50 %.

Benefits for buyer:

Loan 10Y: Euribor 6m + 0.95 %; IRS10y +1.15 %;

Loan 15Y: Euribor 6m + 1.05 %; IRS 15y +1.30 %;

Loan 20y: Euribor 6m + 1.20 %; IRS 20y +1.45 %;

Loan 25y: Euribor 6m + 1.30 %; IRS 25y +1.60 %;

Loan 30y: Euribor 6m + 1.50 %; IRS 30y +1.80 %.

CAP 10y: max. 6 %; spread: 1.50 %:

CAP 15y: max. 6.25 %; spread: 1.75 %;

CAP 20y: max. 6.50 %. spread: 2.00 %.

Loan max: 80 % on build / flat value.

Participating banks:

SANPAOLOIMI Direzione Imprese via S. Maria, 8 – 10122 Torino Tel. 0115552329;

SANPAOLO Banco di Napoli Direzione Imprese via Toledo, 177/178 – 80133 Napoli Tel. 01817913661;

CASSA DI RISPARMIO PADOVA E ROVIGO
Rete Commerciale c.so Garibaldi, 22/26 – 35122 Padova Tel. 0498368895;

CASSA DI RISPARMIO BOLOGNA Rete Commerciale via Farini, 22 – 40124 Bologna Tel. 0516453558;

CASSA DI RISPARMIO VENEZIA Rete Commerciale via Torino, 164 – 30175 Venezia Tel. 0415291870;

FRIULCASSA Rete Commerciale via Del Monte, 1 – 33100 Udine Tel. 0432599217;

SANPAOLO BANCA DELL’ADRIATICO
via Gagarin, 216 – 61100 Pesaro Tel. 0852053433.

SUN: Sustainable United Nations

What is SUN ?
UNEP’s Division of Technology, Industry and Economics (DTIE) in liaison with the Environmental Management Group (EMG) secretariat has set up a new team, Sustainable United Nations (SUN). SUN will provide advisory services and support to UN and large public organizations to reform towards climate neutrality, namely to reduce the generation of greenhouse gases.
SUN’s activities take place in three focus areas with direct impact on the climate change performance:
• Procurement;
• Buildings and facilities; and
• Management and organizational culture.
SUN’s fields of action include:
• Physical assets (buildings, equipment, vehicles etc);
• Management processes (procurement, travel requirement, management systems etc);
• Organizational culture (day-to-day behaviour of staff).

SUN’s three focus areas of work
Procurement
The Sustainable UN initiative is designed to assist UN agencies and other public organizations in setting up and implementing a sustainable procurement policy. SUN advisory services are not only confined to the UN but also available for governments and other large organizations (NGOs and various levels of public authorities).
Buildings & facilities
Creating and operating buildings accounts for about 40% of global energy consumption and up to one-third of greenhouse emissions annually.
With widespread adoption of energy efficiency measures, however, up to 30% of baseline building-related CO2 emissions projected for 2020 could be avoided at no cost or with cost savings to the sector.
Management & organizational culture
SUN will support voluntary action by staff and formal initiatives by organizations to promote sustainable behaviour. It will encourage awareness campaigns and information initiatives. It will provide innovative approaches for influencing staff behaviour.
SUN will also provide guidelines for smart office design encouraging positive staff behaviour, including incentives for sustainable commuting, waste recycling, and energy conservation.

What SUN offers
SUN can help organizations work towards climate neutrality and sustainability by offering the following products and services:
• Guidelines, checklists and other tools to help reduce energy use and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Expert advice on processes, facilities and culture to help identify improvement opportunities.
• Technical support to develop action plan to meet the UN climate neutrality objectives.
• Contacts with experts and providers of know-how, expertise and technologies.
• Training, awareness raising and capacity building in organizations.
Sustainable United Nations (SUN) focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Environmental ManagementGroup (EMG) deals with GHG inventories and offsetting.

How we can cooperate
In order to fully benefit from SUN’s support, we ask our clients to help us with the following:
1. Assign a contact person for SUN.
2. Provide data and access to key staff and managers, as needed for SUN to carry out an initial assessment.
3. Based on the initial assessment and with SUN’s assistance, elaborate an action plan for moving the organization towards climate neutrality.
4. Commit resources as needed to implement the action plan.
5. Provide SUN with a regular update about the implementation of the plan.
A number of functional areas will need to be improved, including administrative systems, and management and control of the performance of operations.

For further information:
Sustainable United Nations (SUN)
Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch Division of Technology, Industry and Economics UNEP - United Nations Environment Programme
Email: sustainable.un@unep.fr

Italian Council to develop sustainable building

To develop sustainable building in Italy, the Italian Regions and ITACA (Italy is subdivided in to twenty Regions and ITACA is the Federal Association of Italian Regions), founded SBC Italia along with ITC-CNR (Governmental Organization to develop research in Italy), ANCE (Builders National Association), INTESA-SAN Paolo Bank and RINA S.p.A. . SBC Italia (http://www.sbcitalia.org/ ) is a non profit organization that develops and manages both the SBC Protocols and the ITACA Protocol. SBC Protocols are the rating systems to assess sustainability of private housing, skyscrapers and office buildings, hospitals, universities, schools, industries and shopping centres; ITACA Protocol is a rating system for social housing. SBC Italia is a member of the SB ALLIANCE (http://www.sballiance.org/) the new European organization founded by Governmental Research Organizations in UK, Germany, France, Netherland, Italy, that will develop common elements for a European rating system to assess sustainable buildings.

Now SBC Italia work to assess:

- 10,000 flats of Piedmont Region housing program;

- Piedmont Region skyscraper (plan: Massimiliano Fuksas);

- Intesa SanPaolo Banking Group skyscraper (plan: Renzo Piano);

- Builders building in Alessandria (plan: Daniel Libeskind);

- Genua new University;

- Headquarter in Tuscany;

- Novara Healt City (Hospital);

- Ferrero spa nursery and a new building for offices.

SBC Italia have head offices in Rome, Milan and Turin.

sbc.italia@email.it .