KITE Engineering and Meg.Studio collaborated on the executive integrated project of MEP systems as part of the public procurement concerning the demolition and recontruction of “Piero Maroncelli” middle school in Forlì. Thanks to EU funding, the city of Forlì will have a new, modern, sustainable and multifunction educational building.

The new school will ve able to hold up to 375 students divided into 20 classrooms; however, it will become also a point of reference for the community inasmuch laboratories, the gym, the lecture hall and the library may be used by the citizenship during extracurricular hours.

Particular attention was paid to energy efficiency and comfort, especially with a photovoltaic system, an innovative air conditioning anche energy recovery systems.
The air conditioning system was designed to face the heat waves which are more and more frequent nowadays. It can guarantee not only air conditioning to all offices, laboratories and communal halls, but also dehumidification of primary air input, so as to ensure optimum comfort conditions.

Concerning energy efficency, the presence of partial heat recovery from refrigeration is remarkable, since waste heat energy is used to power the AHU post heating coils instead of being dispersed into the environment.

This project is an example of innovation and sustainability going pari passu with creation of buildings serving the community.