Healthcare as an integrated infrastructure: buildings, systems, and energy in support of care

20 Nov 2025

SIAIS 2025 Event, Italian Society of Architecture and Engineering for Healthcare

A hospital is a living organism, where departments, systems, and energy form an interdependent structure that must be governed in an integrated manner. The continuity of healthcare services, the safety of patients and staff, and the quality of care also depend on the ability of infrastructures to respond coherently to increasingly complex scenarios.

In a context where the risk related to climate change for hospitals is expected to increase by +311% by 2100 (XDI, 2023), rethinking healthcare as infrastructure becomes a strategic priority to ensure safe, sustainable, and continuous services over time.

From maintenance to digitalization, from energy efficiency to structural safety, RINA Prime supports Healthcare Organizations in the management of real estate assets including buildings, systems, and workplaces, through a multidisciplinary approach focused on efficiency, sustainability, and operational continuity.

These topics were discussed by Nunzio Di Somma andElena Balossino during the SIAIS 2025, Italian Society of Architecture and Engineering for Healthcare event, highlighting how people’s health also depends on the health of infrastructure.