A successful day for prefabricated renovation

On Wednesday, March 19, in Greve in Chianti (Florence), professionals of the construction sector, social housing managers, real estate developers could witness the live installation of the prefabricated integrated facades on the Italian demo case of INFINITE.

The demo case is a social housing building from the ‘80s that is being refurbished to become a nearly zero-energy building.

There was great exceptions among the 70 participants for the installation of the integrated prefabricated facades designed and produced by Fanti Legnami, project partner and company from Trentino with decades of experience in the wood sector.

These facades, featuring an integrated system for winter and summer air conditioning and air exchange, incorporate cutting-edge solutions. They are the result of collaboration between Fanti Legnami, Eurac Research, and European partners, including solar thermal panels (Serneo), photovoltaic panels (Sunage), ventilation systems (Vortice S.p.A.), intelligent windows (Next Sense), and wall and roof insulation.

The installation took just a few minutes, drawing admiration from the participants.

During the installation of the prefabricated panels Paolo Sottani, mayor of Greve in Chianti, gave a speech, followed by Luca Talluri, President of Casa Spa, Martino Gubert, Eurac Research, Marco Dal Mas, EDERA, Alessandro Caioli, Casa Spa, Marino Fanti and Gabriele Zini of Fanti Legnami.

The demo tour, organized by EDERA, Energiesprong Italia, Eurac Research, Casa Spa, and Fanti Legnami, the tour continued in the afternoon at the Margherita Hack Room in the Palazzo della Torre in Greve in Chianti.

Here, participants were given an overview of the entire renovation process – from BIM design to factory production, transport, and on-site installation – as well as the various technological packages to be implemented. This was followed by a Q&A session.

The day concluded with a workshop on integrating offsite components, systems and envelope, with Thomas Miorin and Marco Dal Mas, EDERA. Participants showed a great interest in the case studies and the potential for replication and scalability of the industrialised deep retrofit approach.