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The Minister for Public Works and Planning Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi and the Parliamentary Secretary for European Funds Chris Bonett inaugurated the retrofitting project carried out on the central building of the Department of Public Works known as Project House . This investment of around 4 million will make this building more sustainable in the use of energy.Minister Stefan Zrinzo Azzopardi said that through this project they want to promote an agenda in favor of more buildings with energy efficiency in order to reach the European Unions targets on decarbonisation by the year 2050. He went on to say that Project House will it will be an example for both the public sector and the private sector so that together with interested parties involved an evolution will take place on a national level in the building sector. This will be decisive on the financing given by the banks for a development project in the near future.Minister Zrinzo Azzopardi concluded by saying that all this is testimony to how much this government is integrating environmental considerations in every activity or political decision that is taken.The Parliamentary Secretary Chris Bonett said that this project which was inaugurated today is one of the environmentally friendly projects carried out with an investment of more than 4 million from the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Malta.Both from the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Malta as well as with European funds we will continue to carry out more projects in favor of sustainability and the digital core. At the moment there are the last few negotiations left on the operational programs of the European funds for the years 2021-2027 with the European Commission as in January the European Commissioner for Cohesion and Reforms Elisa Ferreira will visit our country so that we can start using the 2.2 billion that the Prime Minister managed to bring to Malta in 2020 concluded Chris Bonett.The Architect Anne Casha who took care of the project spoke in more detail about the interventions made on this building. The Architect explained that among the works carried out insulation boards were attached to the facades of the building as well as a shell was placed on the outside with local hard stones where a ventilated cavity system was created. The apertures were all made with a thermal break aluminum frame with double glazed glass. On the roof the existing batten was removed to place the insulation and then a new batten was re-placed which was given a heat reflective coating. More panels were installed on the roof as well as others that were fixed on the south facing facades. In these facades louvres were placed in front of the windows to cut the heat of the sun in summer.In addition more efficient centralized VRF air conditioning systems have been installed. A Building Management System BMS has also been installed which operates as an energy management system for all services and will thus result in a reduction in the use of energy.
