Studies Research and Environmental Planning
The Studio has broad experience in drafting Environmental Impact Studies for major infrastructure projects (roads and railways) or for major new urban areas, including environmental impact assessment procedures on both a national level (Ministero dell’Ambiente) and a regional level (Regione Lombardia, Regione del Veneto, Regione Emilia Romagna).
In addition to the routine activities tied both to determining and assessing individual environmental factors and to the project’s interaction with the Quadro di Programmazione and overall land-use management and planning for land-use, the Studio has its own internal capacity to work on major project components, with special regard attached to:
• Transportation and other functionalities (traffic studies, verification of the various scenarios involved in the plan, simulations of the dynamics tied to provisional traffic flows during construction work, furnishing of input data for subsequent evaluations of atmospheric and acoustic impact)
• Cost-benefit analysis and assessment, with the inclusion including of an economic appraisal of environmental parameters as well as traditional economical and social indicators in the final assessment
• Developing and designing environmental mitigation and compensation works (i.e. landscaping, acoustics, vibrations, surface water)
Additionally, the skills developed over the years enable the studio to support both public and private purchasing in the design and planning of regeneration and clean-up of natural areas, urban and regional parks, location studies for high environmental impact facilities, etc.
