Rail infrastructure projects play a key role in driving the sustainable development of the Country, as strategic components in the development of more accessible and resilient cities and communities. At the same time, they can and must enhance landscape identity and improve regional cohesion and the quality of life of local communities.
Against this backdrop, our commitment towards Sustainability aims to steer the design process, and the company as a whole, towards embracing sustainable development objectives, nationally and internationally, by harmonising relations between projects, infrastructure and communities and reconciling Italferr’s engineering know how with a greater focus on design and social and economic factors.
At Italferr, we address Sustainability in both the design process and as an overarching ESG strategy, by rolling out ad hoc standards and gradually innovating our sustainability assessment methods. Furthermore, both Italferr and the FS Group, are engaged in an intense R&D partnership, between themselves and with the broader scientific community, to support our experimental efforts in this field. We promote and disseminate the culture of sustainability through the production of scientific guidelines and publications, training programmes and participation in conferences and seminars.
SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVITIES
THE KEY PILLARS OF SUSTAINABILITY
At Italferr, designing sustainable infrastructure means adopting a holistic vision that focuses on the entire life cycle of the project, assessing its environmental impact from the early design stages to the possible scenarios resulting from its evolution and transformation, while continuing to generate value for the local area. Railway infrastructure, for example, is not done once and for all. I...
Italy is a country markedly prone to natural disasters, a situation that has been aggravated in recent years by the increasingly dramatic effects of climate change, so transport infrastructure security plays a critical role in ensuring the safety, continuity and sustainability of the service. Running through mountainous, hilly and coastal areas, the railway infrastructure is particularly exposed ...
Italferr has adopted a Life Cycle Thinking (LCT) approach in its infrastructure design processes, focusing not just on the construction phase, but also on the subsequent operation, maintenance and, eventually, decommissioning of the infrastructure. This holistic approach enables a comprehensive systemic vision, capable of evaluating the infrastructure and the relev...
