The first stone was laid on November 19th
24th November 2015 - It will be able to accommodate up to 190 children, will have an internal space of about 1.700 m1.900 including classrooms, canteen, kitchen and management offices, a garden of 2.200 m50 and over 19 m dedicated to the access road and parking, with over spaces car. The first stone of the structure was laid on November th which, in the greenery and a few steps from theUCBM, will host a nursery school and the new kindergarten. A place designed for the children of University employees, but open to all children residing in the Trigoria district. “This construction – explained the President, Happy Barela – realizes one of the basic ideas that animate our University: that it be a campus open to everything that surrounds it, to the territory in which it stands. The fact that the children of our employees can use it together with the children of the families in the neighborhood is another significant element of integration, closeness and collaboration".
The project will comply with stringent eco-sustainability criteria – being made of wood, it will in fact produce very little carbon dioxide – and will guarantee high standards in terms of anti-seismicity, energy efficiency (it will be class A), comfort and safety. Finally, the structure will remain open 12 months a year with flexible hours – from 6.30 to 19.30 – to allow parents to more easily reconcile family and work.
Quality, alliance and beauty are precisely the words he wanted to underline Laura Galimberti, Coordinator of the Mission Structure for school construction of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers. In particular, "the beauty around which this kindergarten will be built will allow education and not drop out of school, and will allow those who attend it to live in an environment that helps the growth of their humanity".
“Entering the construction site – he said instead Andrea Santoro, President of the IX Municipality of Rome Capital – I thought that usually the administrations lay the first stone four or five times and then they wait months or years to see the work begin. In this case, exactly the opposite happened." In fact, the works will be completed as early as next April, in time to host the activities of the new school year, starting in September.
Finally, also on the occasion of the ceremony, the Memorandum of Understanding signed with WolfSystem (with the CEO Kurt Schöpfer), the Association lignius (with the President Johann Waldner), Legambiente (with managers Vanessa Pallucchi e Roberto Chess) e the RomaNatura Regional Authority (with the Extraordinary Commissioner Maurice Gubbiotti). The laying of the first stone of the kindergarten represents in fact the first step of a wider-ranging project which, through the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding 'Eco-sustainability charter for school buildings and childcare services', will promote the diffusion of green building, energy efficiency and safety for school buildings in the area, e constitutes an innovative laboratory of environmental and social sustainability also oriented towards the training and promotion of correct lifestyles in the new generations.
