Advance smart cities through digital twins: expanding the knowledge and management capacity of public buildings stock for energy efficiency rehabilitations

Abstract

In a new vision of smart cities, one of the ambitious challenges for Public Administrations is to expand the knowledge framework (smart data/smart governance) on public building stock supporting a new advanced management capacity for renovation and energy efficiency rehabilitation. The paper shares the experience of the international project Med-EcoSuRe (Mediterranean University as Catalyst for Eco-Sustainable Renovation), specially the methodology of Digital Twin experimented in the Pilot Project of Santa Verdiana, merging both the building performance with indoor environmental data and well-being characteristics. The vision of the project is very ambitious and aims to represent a comprehensive methodology and tool dedicated to PA for a sustainable and smart governance - programming, planning, managing - of energy in public buildings, supporting the evaluation of retrofitting scenarios, decision making on cost-effective and innovative energy rehabilitation actions in Med contexts.