Resilient, Safe, and Sustainable Hospitals

29 Oct 2025

An integrated technical governance and greater plant efficiency help reduce costs and improve the quality of care

Clinical effectiveness and the quality of healthcare depend also on the solidity of infrastructure. Across Europe, the investment needed to modernize public hospitals exceeds €190 billion by 2030 (EIB, 2023); in Italy, the estimate is over €30 billion. At the same time, the healthcare sector accounts for around 5% of national energy consumption, with average values of 300–350 kWh/m²/year (ENEA, 2023).

At the European level, integrated technical governance, system efficiency, operational continuity, and shared data are key factors in improving costs, service indicators, and safety. This is the context in which we want to frame the discussion: healthcare as infrastructure, where systems, energy, maintenance, and digital processes are all part of the same value chain that sustains care.
In this direction, RINA Prime acts as an operational partner alongside healthcare facilities in the management of buildings and systems: from business continuity to technical and economic compliance, from decarbonization to structural diagnostics, up to the digitalization of processes, regulatory compliance, and adherence to technical standards, in order to measure results and transform hospital assets into resilient, safe, and sustainable systems.

These topics were discussed by Nunzio Di Somma, Senior Director of Technical Services at RINA Prime, and Virginia Caracciolo, Director of the Technical Design, Works Management, and Safety Unit of Buildings and Systems at the San Giovanni Addolorata Hospital, during Forum Sanità 2025, held in Rome.