Assessment of Disused Public Buildings: Strategies and Tools for Reuse of Healthcare Structures

Lorenzo Diana,Giovanna Acampa,Saverio D’Auria,Giorgia Marino

doi:10.3390/su14042361

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The aim of this paper, in line with the 2030 European Agenda and 2021 Italian “Recovery and Resilience Plan” objectives, is to define an evaluation methodology and tool to support public administrations to detect buildings, currently unused or underused, that might be apt for transformation interventions. The focus is on historical Italian healthcare buildings since these show widespread decay and neglect. A five-step methodology has been developed: screening of public assets; classification, evaluation, and identification of buildings, based on the “potential index”; GIS mapping and inventory; selection of buildings for in-depth analysis; BIM digitization and definition of the “transformability index”. In the fifth phase, an evaluation tool is integrated into the BIM software to automatically calculate the transformability index of each building using six indicators: usability, fragmentation, modifiability, roof implementation, external envelope, and window-to-wall ratio. The “transformability index” helps define the most appropriate buildings to intervene with for reuse. Building transformation is connected to construction features and layout organization and it is limited by architectural, structural, and artistic constraints.

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Academic Editor: Miguel AmadoItalian public real estate is made up of a very large number of buildings, over one million units, of which more than two-thirds are residential and the remainder institutional.According to the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance [1], their economic value is around 300 billion euros, but approximately 10% of them are disused and only half of those used are a source of revenue
This paper aims to define an evaluation methodology and tool to support the management, monitoring, and determination of intervention priorities for public administrations
Several evaluation tools and strategies exist in the literature for the adaptive reuse of cultural heritage structures (Section 1.2)—the BIM

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Academic Editor: Miguel AmadoItalian public real estate is made up of a very large number of buildings, over one million units, of which more than two-thirds are residential and the remainder institutional.According to the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance [1], their economic value is around 300 billion euros, but approximately 10% of them are disused and only half of those used are a source of revenue. Italian public real estate is made up of a very large number of buildings, over one million units, of which more than two-thirds are residential and the remainder institutional. In Italy, around 60% of the buildings were constructed before 1970 [2], prior to the introduction of laws on energy consumption control in buildings [3] and construction in seismic regions [4]. It becomes clear how complex the management of this large estate is in terms of ordinary maintenance or even forecasting energy, functional, and structural renovations. Many of them (around 1900 [5]) are listed due to their recognized architectural and cultural values

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