a performance based management system for cost prediction suitable for school building stock

The national existing school heritage is wide and varies significantly (e.g. morphology, age, construction, capacity, etc.) and many initiatives are ongoing to improve its safety, energy and functional situation. In a case study research the Municipality of Seregno has been adopted as sample municipality to analyze data collection and processing procedures with the aim to highlight the critical points and to develop and configure a management system able to bridge them. The research starts from the analysis of the energy performance of the school buildings pointing out the main needs and weaknesses. The following step is the tracking of the management procedures and data organization introduced to define a structure of the information able to support the new management system. Thus, a description and application of KPI helps to provide clear and data driven strategies for the improvement of the management system enabling a cost reduction. Finally, a proposed new energy management system, to be implemented within the Municipality procedures, defines a database, crucial to collect all the information about different properties and the energy audit procedures to gather and analyze the heating costs. The system is tested and discussed and furthermore allows to provide an energy predictive model for energy costs suitable for the Municipality to support a reliable resources plan.