Month: April 2021

Smart Garda Lake

Smart Governance | Enhancement of the territory | UE Projects | Sustainability

Lago di Garda - Italy (2019 - in progress)

Smart Garda Lake was born in June 2017 from an idea of Stefania Zerbato and Simona Franzoni, later developed and supported by a team of scientific partners including Tea Group. As part of the project, the Garda Community and the municipalities of Lazise, Torri del Benaco, Bardolino for Salò and Gardone Riviera, have decided to adopt a Smart Governance approach, aimed at preserving and enhancing Garda Lake territory.

Smart Governance is a set of strategies seeking the improvement and optimization of infrastructures and public services through new technologies in the field of communications, energy efficiency, mobility and environmental protection.

Its ultimate goal is to deliver long-lasting benefits to the environment and to the quality of life of citizens. Garda communities have thus initiated the creation of an environmental monitoring network to analyze the evolution of meteorological parameters, noise pollution, state of surface water and air quality, in line with the sustainability objectives of the UN 2030 Agenda.

TEA Group, in collaboration with the CNR Institute for Bio-Economics (IBE), has contributed to the project with the AirQino system, selected for the detection of parameters such as humidity levels, temperature, CO, CO2, O3, NO2, VOC, PM2.5 and PM10. The equipment used for monitoring was integrated into the public lighting network.

Attention to sustainability projects that preserve the territory and its ecosystems is a theme that is increasingly receiving attention not only for its benefit to the local population but also for its positive influence on tourism. The data confirm: Citizens and tourists are increasingly demanding and sensitive to the quality of the places where they live or spend a holiday.

The number of people sensitive to sustainability issues and active in preserving the territory is increasing.

Today, thanks to monitoring technologies and artificial intelligence platforms, municipalities can establish advanced information systems that meet support citizens and local administrators during decision-making processes.

The achievement of an economic, social and environmental sustainability that aims to preserve a unique ecosystem of its kind that every year sees millions of tourists from all over the world pour onto its shores is closely linked to the policies and decisions implemented by Local Administrations towards the territory and an increasingly sustainable tourism.

Sources

https://smartea.it/smart-garda-lake/

https://smartgardalake.it/progetto/

AirQino

Health is in the Air

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Prato Urban Jungle

Nature Based Solutions | UE Projects | Sustainability | Urban re-development

Prato - Italy (2019 - in progress)

Prato Urban Jungle brings forward a new concept of open spaces and green areas of the city, where nature is an active tool for safeguarding citizens’ health.

Divided into 3 pilot areas and carried out by the Municipality of Prato with European funds of UIA Urban Innovative Actions, the project implements various scales of Urban Forestry interventions to radically improve the social and environmental quality of the urban context.

The intervention sees the participation of Stefano Boeri Architetti in the redevelopment of the Consiag – Estra site, a classic office building, and the regeneration of the Prato public building residences.

Among the Nature-Based Solutions and the innovative technologies employed:

the increase in green permeable surfaces and the creation of vertical and horizontal green surfaces;
the improvement of buildings’ energy efficiency through vegetation isolating shields;
the creation of new social spaces, thanks to the transformation of the parking lots into common green areas;
the exposure reduction of buildings to air and noise pollution;
the construction of a Urban Forest, available to all citizens, that mitigates the impact of the high-traffic avenues.
the transformation of the unused roof into a green roof, making it an island of biodiversity, usable by employees as a place for socializing, for small events or physical activity.
a social garden, as a place accessible by the residences’ inhabitants.

In this project, AirQino monitors the state of the environment and air quality before, during and after the interventions, with an approach capable of quantifying the benefits of Urban Jungles. AirQino network also provides real-time data, which are used by the municipality to raise public awareness.

http://www.pratourbanjungle.it/it/pagina893.html

https://www.stefanoboeriarchitetti.net/project/prato-urban-jungle/

Sources

https://smartea.it/smart-garda-lake/

https://smartgardalake.it/progetto/

AirQino

Health is in the Air

Uncategorized

The Port of Livorno

The port of Livorno

Strategic Environmental Assessments | Urban Planning Tools | Harbors

Livorno - Italy (2017 - in progress)

Development and implementation of an integrated system for the assessment of air quality and for the management of the interventions provided by the Regulatory Plan of the Port of Livorno.

Between October 2017 and 2018, Arianet®, Arpa Toscana and Ibimet (CNR Institute for Biometereology) launched a project dedicated to meteorological, emission and air quality modeling.

The study area extends for 40 km and includes the port of Livorno and the entire municipal area, the coastal strip that extends from Rosignano Solvay to Marina di Pisa and the northern hinterland up to Pisa.

The choice of this domain made it possible to analyze the areas potentially affected by port activities and to include the emission sources located in the surrounding areas in the model simulations.

The modeling system was applied to reconstruct the overall concentrations of pollutants over an entire year, from March 2017 to February 2018, and cover the spectrum of emissive and meteorological conditions over different seasons.

The simulated concentrations were compared with the values measured by ARPAT stations, part of the official regional air quality monitoring network, over the same period of time.

In order to expand the information provided by fixed stations, CNR-IBIMET conducted – in coordination with ARPA Toscana – an air quality monitoring campaign in the city of Livorno, deploying 6 low-cost air quality stations (AirQino ) and a mobile laboratory (AirQLab).

At the same time, ARPAT carried out a monitoring campaign using a mobile laboratory, positioned in proximity of two AirQino stations.

The correspondence between the measurement sites over a series of periods made it possible to calibrate the measurements of low-cost stations and to broaden the basis of comparison for the model.

The joint detection of NO2, PM2.5, PM10, SO2, O3 showed how the modeling system as a whole is able to reproduce the average levels and the variability of the concentrations of primary and secondary pollutants over the different areas analyzed.

The system, consisting of a configured and validated modeling software and a database with hourly observations, was installed on a high-performance computing server at the Port Authority of Livorno.

https://maps1.ldpgis.it/livornosit/sites/livornosit/files/roles/ps/all6_12_arianet_sitema_integrato_valutazioni_impatti_aria.pdf

Sources

https://smartea.it/smart-garda-lake/

https://smartgardalake.it/progetto/

AirQino

Health is in the Air