Strategic energy conservation and the role of Pafile in Italy

Improving the energy efficiency of the entire construction industry is a key objective in managing resource consumption and reducing air pollution.

This action aims to enhance and strengthen the energy certification of buildings and focus efforts on the demand side of energy:
the guiding principle is “consume less” to reduce the EU’s energy dependence and recover a gap that has accumulated over the years.

The application of energy-saving principles follows different trajectories depending on the spatial context and climatic conditions.

The main implications of such a varied arrangement can be traced to three basic aspects:

• The impact on enterprises operating in the construction sector;
• The level of housing market quotations;
• the quality of living.

This entails strengthening organizational flexibility, typical of construction companies, to adapt and shape strategic-operational activities. It is Pafile’s intent to offer itself as a new supplier for the materials and finishes needed and at the same time to activate with designers possessing the required skills in the field, and to provide the workers with that training related to the various areas in which the companies will be operating.

In fact, construction is a cost-driven industry, where companies, rather than focusing on strategic factors such as quality, safety, and the environment, make their decisions based on cost level, thus undermining the ability to create differentiation for the customer.

Construction is also an industry focused on people’s demands: despite the increasing mechanization of many production steps, businesses remain strongly tied to manual labor and labor-intensive methods and operations.

We would like to be able to affect a person-centered production culture that blocks the possibility of incorporating and introducing technological innovations because it considers experience-based learning superior; completely absent are relations with the world of public research: dialogue with researchers, problematic because of differences in language and goals, is made even more unlikely by the presence of well-established technologies and the absence of an innovative culture.

Here the role of Pafile, a small driver of a different growth attitude.