Here are the 12 good practices chosen by Legambiente

A drop in the sea of difficulties enveloping Italian school buildings. It is the one represented by the 12 good practices that Legambiente highlighted in its XXV Ecosistema Scuola and that range from digital innovation to sustainable mobility to energy efficiency and new construction.

The first example mentioned concerns Bologna's new kindergarten, temporarily named 'Giardino Pozzati', which accommodates 75 children in addition to 21 in the nursery section. Built in about two and a half years in the Borgo Panigale-Reno district, the school was designed with vertical load-bearing elements in wood panels (X-LAM type) and horizontal load-bearing elements in glulam. The external cladding and the systems installed are such as to guarantee the achievement of energy class A4. Equipped with a rainwater collection and reuse system, a lamination tank and a 35-kilowatt photovoltaic system, it has spaces enhanced by furnishings and materials that offer an organised context, so that the experience areas are a stimulus for the children to meet and learn.

Another school building that meets the most modern construction standards is the Giuseppe Lozer secondary school in Pordenone. Seismically safe, with very low energy impact, it is equipped with spacious and comfortable spaces for the well-being of girls, boys and teachers. The interior spaces accommodate up to approximately 525 students: 22 classrooms, 3 classrooms dedicated to children with special educational needs (one on each floor), a library, 2 computer rooms, a technology room, an art room and several laboratories. The ground floor also houses the teachers' room, an infirmary, the archive, the copy shop and a tool room. A locker has been provided for each student. The municipality's goal is to build a gymnasium together with the auditorium with its music rooms and a bicycle path adjacent to the school.

Also included in the list is the G. Pascoli primary school in San Vittore, a hamlet of Cesena, which was pulled up next to the current school complex built in the 1940s and houses seven classrooms, a canteen and a library-theatre. It is an 'almost zero' energy consumption building (so-called Nzeb) and energy class A4, powered by renewable energy sources. Inside each room there is a change of air with controlled mechanical ventilation; temperature, air quality and lighting are automatically adjusted according to the number of people present. In addition, a photovoltaic system has been installed that covers the building's electricity needs by at least 50 per cent.

Moving on to Vicenza, the case of the Palladio municipal kindergarten, which was built between 1921 and 1945 and has undergone an overall internal and external redevelopment, is reported. The external and internal walls were repainted, the sanitary fittings replaced, the false ceilings with new integrated soundproofing elements and new LED lighting and some window frames. Remaining in the Veneto region, in Treviso Legambiente then highlights the Don Milani primary school in San Zeno: a 1970s structure demolished and rebuilt according to the latest anti-seismic and energy efficiency standards, also aimed at saving water.