Domotics and Health Building Infrastructures

Public health is recognized by the new social, environmental and economic standards as a valuable resource that must be preserved and improved. The promotion of health needs a new system of health buildings that can answer to the new social demand like Humanization, comfort, flexibility, efficiency and effectiveness, environmental sustainability…. Today the Hospitals are complex buildings in articulation, function, organization and technology equipment. Therefore their planning needs a multi-disciplinary approach to organize efficiently the construction of qualitative units, that answer to all the requirements of different users and to the fast transformations due to the research innovations. For this reason in the last years The Politecnico di Milano have done different researches about Structure and Technology of Health Building focused on Flexibility, on High Quality Project, on sustainability and energy consumption and on Feasibility Studies for Health Facilities. Another area of particular interest is the Security and technological systems with particular reference to seismic engineering and effects of the differential safety on structural design. To improve the conditions of comfort and quality is also given special attention to ergonomics, to Design, to the use of Home/Building Automation Systems or to a new health technology usefully for take care of a patient while he a is at home like Wearable Sensors and BCI for Home Monitoring or other Products and Services at Home.