The research unit Sustainable Technologies for the Habitat (STH) develops the arguments of environmental sustainability in relation to the issues of innovation, quality and new technologies for the project and the building production.
The main research areas are:
 

Technologies for urban rehabilitation: the research activity is focused on the elaboration of supporting tools for decisions to take in design and construction phases, in the management and control of technological processes of the urban spaces physical transformation. In this scenery, the main contribution lays in addressing the operational techniques towards environmental sustainability purposes, including the procedures for not altering the characters of places, favouring non-invasive systems and elements.
 

Technologies for building rehabilitation: the research activity deals with the study and the realization of tools aimed at the rehabilitation of building heritage, developing operational methodologies for the rehabilitation of industrial archaeology, modern and contemporary architecture, to the technological and energy retrofit of buildings and the monitoring of historical and archaeological heritage.
 

Technology innovation for building: the goal is studying building industrialization and assembly methods that control and organize design activity, characterized by processes acceleration. Special interest is aimed at the control of the whole life cycle of buildings and to the study of impact reduction during the construction phase, through the use of dematerialized technologies, light structures and eco-efficient products.
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