An integrated approach to the evaluation of interventions on school buildings in the consortium between small towns

In order to pursue economies of scale and ensure quality and sustainability of services, the use of associated forms of management plays a central role for small towns in inland areas. The implementation of associated school services requires, in a first phase, the analysis of the school building heritage in order to verify if there is a suitable building or anyway adaptable to accommodate users in relation to a new catchment area. In a second phase it is instead necessary to choose the most appropriate intervention strategy to adapt the selected building to the regulations in force. This choice is related to the evaluation of various aspects including the achievable seismic safety level, energy efficiency, environmental impact, initial and management costs, interference with educational activities, etc. In order to investigate the issues highlighted, in this paper a decision support methodology is proposed to compare different intervention alternatives on existing school buildings according to an integrated and multi-criteria approach. The aim is to provide a tool for Public Administrations to make conscious programmatic choices and activate processes for the associated management of services.