00:00Sustainability in recent years has become an essential element for all commitments,
00:09especially from the point of view of the design of infrastructures.
00:12It is therefore an element that must be taken into account.
00:15In recent years, in addition to the European and Italian regulatory instruments,
00:19such as CAM and PNRR,
00:22other international instruments have also been developed and brought to Europe,
00:26which allow us to look at sustainability from multiple points of view,
00:30not just from an environmental point of view.
00:32One of these is the Envision protocol,
00:36which looks at sustainability at 360 degrees.
00:39These protocols have found very fertile ground in Italy,
00:43also for the characteristics and peculiarities of the Italian context and the regulatory context.
00:47The Envision protocol, for example, is a protocol developed in the United States
00:52by the Institute for Sustainable Infrastructure,
00:54in collaboration with the University of Harvard's Zoffnas program,
00:58and looks at sustainability in all social, economic and environmental aspects.
01:02It goes from a purely prescriptive approach,
01:06which is what we know from the normative point of view,
01:09therefore only on environmental aspects,
01:11to a much more complex assessment.
01:14It starts from the planning of the project,
01:16to the design, to the implementation,
01:18and then to the end of the work.
01:20The importance of these sustainability protocols
01:22is precisely to integrate sustainability right from the start,
01:26so that it is the thread, the guiding thread of the design.
01:30Through different methodologies,
01:33it is possible to understand how the value of sustainability
01:36must be inserted into the design
01:39to make it understandable to the commission, to the project teams,
01:42but above all to the community, what is the importance of sustainability.
01:46Thanks to these protocols,
01:49we try to evaluate the project,
01:52especially in relation to the stakeholders,
01:55which are a fundamental element of the design,
01:58of the construction and of the infrastructural works,
02:01and therefore look at a much more complex approach,
02:05and therefore at sustainability,
02:07also in relation to economic aspects, for example,
02:10to the impact it could have on a community,
02:12and then above all to social aspects,
02:14because naturally the impacts are not only purely environmental,
02:18but also social.
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