SOCIETA GENERALE DI INGEGNERIA

Date: Oct. 01 - Dec. 04

Position: Consultant

Società Generale di Ingegneria, now STUDIO GALLI INGEGNIERIA (SGI) is an independent consulting company experienced in a wide range of water pollution matters and in the development of integrated solutions for the effective management of water resources aimed at improving environmental conditions. In the field of environmental and hydraulic engineering, SGI offers a large variety of consultancy services covering the entire water cycle feasibility studies, financial analysis, master plans, detailed design, technical assistance during the tender phase, site supervision etc.

The consulting assignment is directed to business development and tender preparation for international and national clients in the Public Private Partnership (PPP) area for water utilities.

MINISTRY OF THE ENVIRONMENT (Italia)

In the framework of bi-lateral relationships between Italy and Peru, a cooperation agreement on environmental matters is under development. The Italian Ministry of the Environment will support the Consejo Nacional del Medio Ambiente (CONAM) del Perú at institutional level.

I’m assisting the Italian Ministry of the Environment in the identification and evaluation of projects and initiatives on environmental themes like water resources management, renewable energy, “clean development mechanism” of the Kyoto protocol.

ATO  (AMBITO TERRITORIALE OTTIMALE)

The Private Sector Participation process was initiated in Italy in the last years due to the new regulation introduced by the so called "Legge Galli"; the water utilities companies initially belonging to the Municipalities presented a variety of sizes and characteristics ranging from the micro (serving 10.000 inhabitants or less) to the biggest operators like ACEA for the city of Rome. According to the regulation a new institution: the "ATO Ambito Territoriale Ottimale" was created to group the companies of an area of homogeneous characteristics and to allow for private participation in the ATO itself.

In general terms the ATO, which was initially created with public capital, had to allocate private shares selecting the private partner with a competitive bidding.

To bid for shares in the ATO the private counterpart had to present a complete design of the proposed water utility covering all the operational, financial, management aspects and including tariff evaluation and investment plan.

SGI has directly participated in the bidding process with minority shares in several companies created with major water utilities operators in Italy. I've been involved in the bid of the ATO Umbria 2 for the integrated water service for 260,000 inhabitants of Terni province, and ATO 5 Enna for 128.000 inhabitants of the Enna province in Sicily and others. The area I develop is mainly concerned with organization, SCADA, information systems.

Environmental Monitoring and Sustainable Requalification of Selected Industrial Areas in the Republic of Serbia

The project financed by the Italian Ministry of the Environment has the following objectives:

• To contribute to the environmental and industrial requalification of key Serbian industrial areas, which have been damaged by the last military conflict in the Balkans.
  To provide guidelines for definition of suitable Monitoring Plans for environmental pollution and industrial risk.
  To provide the Serbian Authorities with technical support in the fields of environmental assessment and remediation and of industrial requalification.

Activities of the project include:

Development of a methodology for the identification and ranking of the most critical sites (environmental and industrial) in the Country and environmental and industrial risk assessment for the South Zone Industrial Complex of Pancevo.

Application of the methodology to the South Zone Industrial Complex of Pancevo

Definition of pre-feasibility studies for interventions of remediation and requalification for the pilot area

Definition of a Monitoring Plan for the pilot area

The project is carried on by SGI in joint venture with:

I've been participating to the project since the proposal formulation, and I will be in charge of the coordination of the SGI activities with the partners and the Ministry of the Environment.

A prototype project web site has been developed with Ministry of the environment standards a demonstration can be found here: http://www.forn.it/balcani/Bal0000-IT.html.

ADRICOSM

The ADRICOSM Project objectives are the implementation of an integrated coastal zone management system in the Adriatic Sea, consisting of a predictive marine circulation module and a river basin and wastewater management module. In particular the major aims of this project are:

• to demonstrate the feasibility of Near Real Time (NRT) coastal currents forecasts

• to carry out the implementation of a river basin and wastewater management system in two Adriatic test site (Split and Pula, Croatia)

• to develop the integration of the river system with the coastal current forecasting.

A shelf forecasting system will be created for the Northern Adriatic Sea (Italy and Slovenia) and Croatian coastal waters, which will release weekly forecasts of currents for a six-month period. The implementation of an integrated system for planning and management of urban waste waters will be carried out for a river test site on the Croatian coasts (the Cetina river in the area of Split). In addition, the coastal forecasting model will be coupled asynchronously to the river basin management model.

SGI is executing task 2 of the research project which is carried out by 19 international organizations (INGV, ENEA, DAPHNE, METEO FRANCE, IMO.IMA etc) and also is charge of the pilot test at Pula bay for which wave and currents regime will be analysed according to model results and historical series.