Ist. Ubertini- Convitto di Caluso. extraordinary maintenance, restoration and functional redevelopment.

School building security and structural rehabilitation plan (Mission 4 – Component 1 - Investment 3.3)

Italy’s Recovery and Resilience Plan contributes to climate recovery also by enhancing school buildings’ safety and energy consumption.

In particular, this measure aims to contribute to the improvement of energy classes and leading to lower consumption and CO2 emissions as well as to increase structural safety of buildings.

Particular attention is paid to the most disadvantaged areas with the aim of tackling and eliminating economic and social imbalances.

The investment is financed by Italy’s Recovery and Resilience plan by EUR 4.4 billion.

The project consisting in structural interventions is part of this investment.

The building is located in the historic center of the town of Caluso in Piazza Mazzini n' 4; the structure called "former boarding school" is currently used as the headquarters of the Agricultural Institute Ubertini.

The project includes extraordinary maintenance, restoration and functional redevelopment.

The aim is therefore to recover some rooms on the first floor, from school to boarding school (original destination of the building), in addition to completing the interventions planned in the previous renovation project of the facades and roofing.

There are also interventions on the facades aimed at the completion of the restoration of the west facade, partially foreseen in the previous project, by reconstructing the missing portions of masonry with the "sew/scuci" technique, including the removal of the damaged plaster until the healthy substrate is reached, as well as the cleaning of the masonry by manual brushing or other appropriate means and the subsequent laying of new transpiring lime-based plaster on fibreglass plaster carrier certified.

We will then proceed to finish coating painting, both internal and external, by applying two coats dyed with lime color agreed with the Superintendence.

For the entire facade in question and in order to harmonise the facade architecturally obtaining a lighting surface suitable for what is required by current legislation, it is planned to standardize the type of all windows with full height windows and standard surface, with the replacement of existing windows with new wooden windows to design and type of the latter.

Further renovation, painting and protection works will be carried out on the inner courtyard facade, through similar processes.

The realization of segments, passivations and restoration works in c.a. through concrete structural, cleaning and laying a coat of rust and enamel (color agreed with the superintendence) of the metal structures inside the courtyard (pillars and handrails).

The roof will be completed by re-paving the roof (cellar side and common side), which has not yet been restored, with the recovery of the tiles and possible replacement of those damaged with old tiles; the provision of hooks in the wooden structure for any work on the roof and the replacement of all gutters and rain copper.

There will be the regulatory adaptation of the emergency exit staircase, on the west facade, with demolition of parapet in C.A. and insertion of new parapet in accordance with steel and the rehabilitation of the damaged concrete parts.

The internal works of the building consist in the recovery of some rooms on the first floor, currently intended for school activities, with conversion to dormitories of the boarding school, as well as from the original project, in order to obtain 36 beds and new toilets.

In particular, there are no.12 bedrooms for the 36 places for the boarders, no.2 bedrooms for the tutors, no.5 bathrooms for the boarders and no.2 bathrooms for the tutors (insertion of new toilets and hot water boiler).

It is also planned to complete all the installations (electricity, sanitary water and heating) in the area affected by the conversion to the first floor, with local connection to existing networks.

New screeds, floors, walls, plasters and paintings will be realized on the first floor.

It is planned to insert an internal lifting platform, 160 x 170 cm in size, to remove architectural barriers connecting the rooms on the ground floor and the rooms on the first floor.

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