FS Engineering’s first local office opens, in collaboration with ANSFISA

Messina, 5 March 2026

FS Engineering, the engineering company of FS Group, has inaugurated its first local office, nationwide, in Messina, created in collaboration with ANSFISA, Italy’s National Agency for Rail, Road and Motorway Infrastructure Safety.

Opening this office aims to strengthen the company's operations in the area and to support the safety, quality and efficiency of transport infrastructure through advanced digital tools, while at the same time consolidating the existing collaboration with ANFISA, based on the application of the most advanced digital tools – from BIM 4D and 5D to its most advanced developments – an area in which FS Engineering is recognised as an international leader of excellence, in accordance with the guidelines of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport (MIT) and the business objectives of the FS Group.

On this occasion, the CEO and General Manager of FS Engineering, Dario Lo Bosco, emphasised how "We are working with the FS Group to bring expertise, smart technology and control systems to construction sites, to optimise the quality of construction works and overall safety, occupational safety first and foremost. Our new hub dedicated to the design, monitoring and safety of railway and road infrastructure, has brought us increasingly closer to the areas where the country's major infrastructure projects are located. Today, we are proud to inaugurate an FS Engineering office in the Strait of Messina area, where advanced technology and digital models are all set to support quality, sustainability and efficiency."

The new Messina office will play a highly symbolic role, of enormous operational importance, as a hub for international mobility and a key facility in view of the construction of the Strait of Messina Bridge, destined to become a strategic link in the great Palermo-Berlin-Helsinki-Valletta corridor project.

At FS Engineering, we are at the forefront of designing ancillary railway infrastructure and ensuring its functional and technological integration with the works designed by the Stretto di Messina company, to guarantee their effective operation within the national railway network. The planned railway lines will run largely through tunnels, for over 80% of the route, designed in accordance with stringent terrain-related, urban planning and landscape constraints, ensuring their proper integration into the surrounding environment. These engineering decisions will reduce the project’s overall environmental impact and ensure its integration with the urban and landscape context. In Calabria, the route includes steep gradients and speeds of up to 100 km/h over approximately 5 km. In Sicily, where the works are mainly above ground, the gradients are more moderate with speeds of up to 60 km/h and interconnections to both Messina/Palermo and Catania.

In this regard, Mr. Lo Bosco also pointed out how this is "a complex infrastructure, designed to create the conditions for sustainable development in southern Europe, which will require high-level skills, rigorous process control, a constant presence in the field and integrated digital technology, which is precisely what the facility we are inaugurating today was intended and designed to provide.”

The new Messina office of FS Engineering is part of a corporate strategy aimed at strengthening a model for taking innovation and expertise directly to where the work is carried out, at the construction sites and along the networks, to ensure its increasingly widespread presence and integrated governance of infrastructure safety and quality.