iiSBE Italia R&D
The innovation of the RBE Tools has been recognised by UN Environment that hosted a presentation at the GlobalABC Pavilion in Glasgow during the COP26.
Furthermore, iiSBE Italia is part of the global iiSBE network (international initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment). iiSBE is the organisation that developed one of the most well-known transnational sustainability assessment tools, the SBTool (Sustainable Building Tool). Contextualised versions of SBTool generated national assessment systems, including the Italian one: Protocollo ITACA.
Protocollo ITACA is the official building assessment tool of the Conference of the Italian Regions and it is also an Italian technical standard (UNI PdR13). iiSBE Italia leaded the development of Protocollo ITACA.
iiSBE Italia R&D is a non-profit organization located in Turin – Italy, whose main thematic competences belong to the field of methodologies and tools for the sustainability and resilience assessment of the built environment.
Their main business is the participation in EU research and cooperation projects: over the last 7 years iiSBE Italia R&D participated as a partner in more than 10 projects; all the projects ‘outcomes (assessment systems, methodologies, tools, etc.) are made available to public authorities and other interested stakeholders as open-source resources. Participating as partner in several European projects, iiSBE Italia R&D developed new assessment tools for the urban scale (Sustainable Neighbourhoods Tool, Interreg MED & “CESBA MED – Sustainable Cities” project) and for the territorial scale (Sustainable Territories Tools, Interreg Alpine Space & “CESBA Alps: Sustainable Territories” project).
Considering the urgent relevance of the challenges posed by climate change, iiSBE Italia R&D has more recently addressed the development of a new generation of assessment tools for the evaluation of the resilience and adaptation level at building, urban and territorial scale, named Resilient Built Environment Tools (projects Interreg Alcotra & “Habit.A” and & “ARTACLIM”).
