ENVIRONMENT
 

TECHNITAL has been operating in the field of environmental engineering since the early seventies and has therefore been able to acquire a considerable experience which ranges from planning and management, to research applications and design of environmental recovery interventions.

 In the planning and design of civil works and infrastructures, environmental criteria have long been fundamental considerations when choosing the project locations and evaluating the design options. In this way, any negative effects are identified immediately and measures to mitigate them are incorporated in the design. This approach has been applied extensively in relation to marine and coastal engineering, where in recent years the firm has extended its sphere of interest to the naturalistic and eco-technological sectors, realizing several avant-garde designs, such as: the creation of eel-grass meadows to reduce the coastal erosion phenomena; the morphological reconstruction of lagoon salt-marshes lost by erosion; the creation of artificial wetland areas to reduce pollution loads of diffuse origin, artificial beach nourishment and the reconstruction of coastal dunes.

The experience of TECHNITAL in the field of environmental protection and pollution control has matured through its participation in some of the most important environmental projects carried out in Italy in the last decades, such as:

the Special Project for the pollution control of the Gulf of Naples that covers an area of 2,800 sq. km and comprises the entire province of Naples and part of the provinces of Caserta, Salerno, Benevento ad Avellino, with a population of approx. 4 million inhabitants, or the Interventions for the environmental recovery and preservation of the Venice Lagoon, a particularly sensitive ecosystem constituted by 550 sq. km of lagoon and a drainage basin of more than 2,500 sq. km, that includes the historical towns of Venezia, Chioggia, Pellestrina, Malamocco and other inhabited centres with a total population of more than 1.5 million inhabitants.

 In these projects TECHNITAL has applied some of the most innovative and sophisticated study and design techniques which concerned, among other aspects, the definition of the environmental conditions, the characterisation of the pollution sources, the study of the evolution trend of the most important environmental quality indicators, the planning and design of pollution control measures.

 The firm is also particularly experienced in dealing with environmental problems connected with highly sensitive and fragile ecosystems such as tourist areas, natural reserves or coastal wetlands. Particularly worthy of mention in this specific sector is the firm’s involvement in the Environmental recovery and protection of the Molentargius Wetland in Sardinia, and the  Karavasta Lagoon Wetland Management Project in Albania, one of the last nesting areas of an endangered aquatic bird, the Curled Pelican.