The project Renew School aims at promoting the retrofit of school buildings through the use of a system of outer coating made from prefabricated modular elements in wood. This wood envelope to “coat” the buildings has many advantages over the traditional measures based on the use of synthetic materials:
• Healthiness of the material,
• Intervention is just external (no need for internal disruption).
• The elements of the façade which also covers new windows are made in the factory and transported to site only before Installation
• Quick on site intervantion
• Precise cost calculations, short on site work
• The panels of wood can have a customizable exterior finish (glass, wood, metal, plaster, etc) and all new RES, ventilation systems and sun shielding systems can be incorporated in the panels.
The technique is spreading mainly in the countries of Central and Northern Europe, where both the tradition of using wood as a building material and the sensitivity with respect to quality of indoor environment in schools are greater. However, it is applicable and suitable also in warmer climates such as the South of Europe. The technical production of the panels is similar to that used in the construction of prefabricated wooden houses, a sector that has already seen a good number of active producers in Italy and Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The project mainly aims to spread the technique among the relevant stakeholders (school boards, producers, designers, local government), promoting a collection of case studies, mapping of the different solutions both from technical and financial points of view. It intends to map and disseminate the different possibilities and experiences of financial co-participation of the different stakeholders (schools, manufacturing companies, families, local government).
The project objectives will be pursued through the implementation of dissemination activities, technology talks among experts and stakeholders to stimulate the market for this type of solutions, awareness-raising activities in schools, training activities dedicated to businesses and artisans and designers.
The project involves the creation of ad-hoc platforms as a means to support decision-making processes of the school owners and financers.

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The project objectives will be pursued through the implementation of dissemination activities, technology talks among experts and stakeholders to stimulate the market for this type of solutions, awareness-raising activities in schools, training activities dedicated to businesses and artisans and designers.
The project involves the creation of ad-hoc platforms as a means to support decision-making processes of the school owners and financers.
Informest actively participates in all parts of the project and has a role in specific operating activities: analysis of different forms of co-financing (PPP or PPPP), organized a workshop for the dissemination of technical and funding arrangements, organization of technology Talks to facilitate comparisons and links between different target groups in order to stimulate the market, raising users’ awareness of the schools through the implementation of projects in two schools for the promotion of energy saving and use of renewable construction of 1 course of renovation techniques in ‘area of the EGCC GO (in collaboration with neighboring countries) for designers and contractors.