Smart Building Project for the reduction of electricity consumption and CO2 emissions
Confirming the Group’s commitment to safeguarding the environment, in continuity with previous years, the Smart Building project was promoted for the creation of a management system for Poste Italiane’s medium-small sites by monitoring consumption, climatic conditions inside and outside the buildings, and the automatic implementation of regulation and management systems for air conditioning, heating and lighting systems.
Financed by the European Investment Bank, the project plans to implement a Building and Energy Management System (BEMS) on 2,000 Poste Italiane buildings through a single platform for the integrated supervision, management and control of plants, optimising maintenance management and energy efficiency. Specifically, the intervention includes the installation of sensors and systems for controlling and monitoring systems in buildings, as well as the connection with a centralised platform that allows the progressive optimisation of the management of systems and environments.
Poste Italiane fully represents the extreme diversity of climatic conditions that characterise the Italian territory, as it has in its assets thousands of buildings scattered in every climatic zone and at every latitude and altitude of the territory in which it operates. This diversity requires flexible technical solutions that are not only able to adapt to a variety of conditions and ensure optimal comfort of the environments for both staff and customers, but also to use as little energy as possible and maximise the efficiency of the systems in order to reduce breakdowns and prolong their service life. In 2023, the number of new installations amounted to about 379, including the 24 installations carried out within the Polis Project, plus those related to the so-called “improved offer” of the “Multiservice” contracts, bringing the total number of sites on the BEMS platform to about 2,000.