Innovative Approach to the Configuration of Smart Buildings

In the construction sector, a strong push for innovation is due to the demand for high quality standards of living that can be related to safety, accessibility, usability, energy efficiency, as well as sustainability in terms of construction and management costs. The demand is becoming increasingly "sustainable" also because it is increasingly aware of the limited availability of resources (fossil fuels, water, etc.) and the simultaneous need for environmental protection. In order to respond to the demands of an increasingly demanding market, we identify the need for an innovative approach with the characteristic of being increasingly "friendly" for the future user. The work aims in fact, with the help of BIM computerized tools, to develop a prototype project intended to create low-cost and energy-efficient residential typologies, involving the user in a sort of guided path designed to explain, within a pre-constituted grid, its needs, realizing a real configuration of the building, directly related to obtainable estimations, based on: • use of innovative building materials and components for construction; • application of strategies for the optimization and rationalization of the activities envisaged during the execution phase; • extensive use of remote control and management systems and monitoring of performance obtained in the management phase. The involvement of the client/user in all phases of the building process presumes an innovative approach oriented to the development of all those strategies aimed at empowering and making the user aware, especially in the management phase, depending the achievement of energy efficiency objectives precisely on the user's behavior.