Environment, energy, materials, safety – the 'Talking Palace' of Ruvo in Brussels

The international research project nominated to become a "best practice"

RUVO. The international project "Open Digital Building Logbook – Open DBL", the platform for the use of digital technologies for the remote management of public buildings, which sees the Municipality of Ruvo di Puglia among the protagonists, could become a best practice at European level and the experiment launched in the Bovio school building could be replicated in other realities of the Union.

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Already from the beginning, the project of the so-called "Talking Palace", tested for the first time right in Ruvo at the Bovio school building, had aroused great interest – also media interest – for its innovative nature. Now the project registers a further important step forward: in recent days at the ENEA headquarters in Brussels, the innovative project entered its most important phase, the evaluation of the results achieved by the team of evaluators nominated by HaDEA, the European executive agency for health and digital.

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This was the second Review Meeting of the project financed under Horizon Europe 2021-2027, the European Union framework programme for research and innovation. The project is coordinated by CETMA – Centre for Research and Technological Transfer. The OpenDBL platform aims to simplify the management of public buildings' heritage, being able to operate on "digital twins" created with BIM-based methodology (Building Information Modeling) and, at the same time, to remotely monitor safety and environmental conditions for the purpose of reducing impacts, through dedicated sensors.

 

Thanks to a network of sensors, the platform is able to monitor remotely, in real time and continuously, the environmental and safety conditions of a building, even large ones, recording and controlling remotely energy consumption, CO2 levels, static vibrations, temperature, crowding, air quality, humidity, atmospheric pressure, safety conditions for people present, and more — with the ambition of also tracking in the future structural data relating to the stability of the building, vulnerability, the health of critical points and the efficiency of systems, with interesting prospects also for the state of preservation of materials, maintenance and risk prevention.

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In Brussels, Ruvo was represented by the Deputy Mayor and Councillor for Public Works and Heritage, Antonio Mazzone, assisted by area director Gildo Gramegna and by surveyor Domenico Gramegna.