Methods for the certification of the buildings in Italy: analysis and first conclusions

The achieved awareness at the international level of the global environmental problems, render, more and more urgent, the necessity to advert, in any working domain, the criteria by now well known and pinpointed by the Sustainability. The proposal of this work, in the field of the normative frame outlined both at the European and national level, has been to search and to analyze methods for the certification of the buildings, underlining, in the light of the concept of “Sustainable Development”, the relationship building-energetic and environmental certification through main provisions of the law, present on a national level, mandatory and not, in energetic-environmental matter. That work, get of the ground from a first phase of acquaintance of the problematic one through an analysis of the documentation as wider as possible, successively has focused the attention on the currently adopted methods of certification and has proceeded to the analysis and their comparison. More specifically the first phase, has concerned the investigation and the location of main documents including the sustainability criteria and the investigation and the location of main European Directives, legislative instruments, in force or in progress proposals taken in Italy and of the eventual consensual laws in use. The second phase has concerned the location and the analysis of the environmental certification methods used in Italy. The third phase has concerned the analysis and the comparison of the pinpointed environmental certification methods; the survey of possible criticalities and first conclusions.