Increase Sustainability in Buildings Through Public Procurements: The PROLITE project for Lighting Retrofit in Schools

Elena Deambrogio,Pasquale Lariccia,Anna Pellegrino,Piergiorgio Turi,Filippo Zuccarello,Chiara Aghemo,Silvia Allegretti

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.194

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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2017.03.194

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Abstract

The Public Procurement has always been a demand-side policy measure with great opportunities in terms of spurring innovation at the scale of products and/or services. A support for a sustainable development in the field of energy and buildings may came from different types of Public Procurement: Green Public Procurement (GPP), Sustainable Public Procurement (SPP) and Public Procurement of Innovation (PPI). Within this framework, the paper presents a case study where PPI has been used to promote the development of innovative solutions for upgrading school buildings in terms of increased energy efficiency and sustainability.

Highlights

The Public Procurement, that is “the process whereby public authorities – including all levels of government and public agencies – buy goods and services or commission work” [1], has always been a demand-side policy measure with great opportunities in terms of spurring innovation at the scale of products and/or services
Government procurement programs have been the driver for projects that led to major innovations and technological developments such as the Internet, the Global Positioning System (GPS) or the semiconductors industry
The great potential of public procurement in boosting the innovative and sustainable development of products and services is related to the total government expenditure on works, goods and services that, in European Countries, is estimated as much as about 19% percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) [1],[4]

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1.Introduction

The Public Procurement, that is “the process whereby public authorities – including all levels of government and public agencies – buy goods and services or commission work” [1], has always been a demand-side policy measure with great opportunities in terms of spurring innovation at the scale of products and/or services. The working group that carried out the project for the procurement of innovative solutions for lighting in school buildings in Turin was composed by several Departments of the Municipality, IREN Servizi e Innovazione, that is the service provider of the City and contracting authority of the tender, the Energy Department of the Politecnico of Torino and the Management Department of the University of Torino. The third phase of the project was dedicated to a ‘Design Workshop’ organized in collaboration with Turin Foundation of the Order of Architects This working seminar was aimed to co-develop innovative and integrated solutions for the refurbishment of lighting systems in the selected school buildings. Leaving the bidders the possibility to provide the final design; opting not for supply of solutions but for the concept and realization of fully integrated solutions within the building context; needing multi-sectoral expertise, enabling cross fertilization among different professionals/business areas

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