Andrea Temporelli is an Environmental Engineer, graduated at Politecnico of Milan in 2012. At the beginning of his career he worked as a researcher in the field of urban wastes, realizing an evaluation of the Piemonte Region wastes dismantling system and collaborating at Lombardia GERLA project (Gestione Rifiuti in Lombardia – Analisi del ciclo di vita / Lombardia Wastes Management – Life Cycle Assessment).
Since September 2013, he works in RSE S.p.A. (Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico) within the Sustainable Development and Energy Sources Department. He is qualified in Life Cycle Assessment and sustainable evaluation of electric components and innovative technologies. He also works on Smartainability project, an original methodology which allows to evaluate the sustainability of innovative technologies deployed into the smart cities.
Presentaton Abstract
Title: Evaluating Smart Cities' Sustainability: Smartainability
The percentage of people living in urban areas is getting higher and higher and the Smart City paradigm is seen as the tool to best improve citizens’ quality of life. In this scenario, is smart cities development in line with sustainable development goals? In order to answer to this question RSE SpA (Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico) has created a new and original approach: Smartainability. The Smartainability methodology allows to estimate, with quantitative and qualitative indicators, how far smart cities are more sustainable (and smart) in environmental, economical, energetic and social fields, thanks to innovative technologies. Moreover, these estimates can be realized before technologies deployment. The methodology has been tested, for the first time, on the Expo Milano 2015 Digital Smart City and soon will be extended on “real” cities.
