La Forgiatura Campus

The La Forgiatura Campus is a unique business park located in the north-western part of Milan consisting of 10 mixed-use buildings (offices, restaurant, common areas, green spaces, underground parking and other facilities) covering 24 300 m² of floor area. The site is the result of a €28 million renovation and urban renewal of a former metallurgy industrial complex carried out by RealStep and Engineer Carlo Bossi, as technical supervisor, and designed by Architect Giuseppe Tortato in 2013 to create the first 100% carbon-free corporate campus in Milan. The transformation featured natural lighting, carbon free technologies, renewables, and on-site water use and optimization. The buildings and complex are in their operational phase (e.g. occupied and in use). Since 2013, the whole site is under the facility management by Engineer Daniele Bossi from Studio Bossi engineering firm.  

Technical systems at La Forgiatura include systems for heating, cooling and mechanical ventilation, in addition to the other common energy consumers such as domestic hot water, lighting, and electrical appliances. A large central heating and cooling system is present which consists of 4 polyvalent heat pumps feeding two water loops forming a kind of local district heating and cooling for much of the campus. The HVAC systems are controlled by a Building Management System (BMS). Beginning in 2022, R2M Solution and Brainbox AI have been working with RealStep to install, integrate and optimize BrainBox AI solutions to the installed HVAC components applying AI-based algorithms, automatic optimization rules, automatic control, and continuous monitoring. The reach of the AI-driven systems and number of algorithms employed is increasing each year with the next expansion of the deployed systems scheduled for 2025.