Sustainable comfort
The design and construction of buildings capable of satisfying increasingly complex and unprecedented demands for quality of life and living require an original approach and innovative solutions to creatively address the dialectical relationship between comfort and sustainability. The post-pandemic period has, in fact, highlighted how the home has become an increasingly multifunctional space, characterized by needs for living well-being redesigned by new existential challenges, while the climate crisis and the energy shock have put the need for sustainable buildings back at the centre, with low energy consumption and also redesigned through the search for natural materials that improve comfort and align environmental performance with the imperatives of decarbonisation. The book was born from these elements of the scenario and from the need to provide an answer, capable of a future, to the great question of our time: are sustainability and comfort destined to diverge and conflict or is, instead, a conciliation possible that can bear good fruit people and the planet? The volume tries to resolve the epochal issue of sustainable comfort with an approach that brings together culture, finance and technology in a path that moves from the recovery of Mediterranean construction models and arrives at the definition of modern and evolved protocols in which the technical and engineering aspects of design play a key role in materially declining sustainability and comfort. With one certainty: comfort and sustainability will stimulate new trends only to the extent that they are economically attractive because sustainable comfort that is not convenient and does not offer measurable advantages will never be able to generate lasting and profound changes in people’s lives and in of the planet. Costanzo Di Perna Full Professor of Environmental Technical Physics, Polytechnic University of Marche – Faculty of Engineering. Professor of energy and acoustic design of buildings, thermotechnics and air conditioning systems at the same university. Author of over 200 publications in the scientific field. Consultant for companies in the thermotechnical sector and coordinator of research projects in the energy field. He acts as an expert in numerous national working groups for the development of regulations on the energy sustainability of buildings. Caterina Lucarelli Full Professor of Economics of Financial Intermediaries at the Faculty of Economics of the Polytechnic University of Marche, where she teaches Economics of Credit Companies and the Securities Market. National coordinator of various research projects and author of international and national scientific publications, her studies have recently turned to environmental sustainability and sustainable finance. Diego Mingarelli President of Diasen, a leading company in sustainable solutions and technologies for construction. He best embodies the profile of the innovative entrepreneur and is a convinced advocate of green building and sustainable comfort. The courageous approach allowed his company to obtain BCorp certification in 2017. He has held top roles in Confindustria and is active in the main green and sustainability associations.
