Engineering design and construction management company
Tecne SPA is the new engineering company of the Autostrade per l'Italia Group. Its specific mission is to carry out all the engineering design and construction management activities necessary for the implementation of the huge number of investments set out in Autostrade per l'Italia's Industrial Plan, which envisages 14.5 billion euros worth of investments and 7 billion euros worth of maintenance by 2038. Tecne will be in charge of coordinating all maintenance, upgrading and modernization interventions throughout the 3,000 km network, as well as the engineering activities involving infrastructures that are strategic for the country – such as the Genoa Bypass or the Passante di Bologna.
Thanks also to the collaboration with Movyon – the technology hub of the ASPI Group – Tecne will keep track of the state of the works on the freeway network in order to develop design, supervision and work coordination activities in collaboration with the Section Departments of Autostrade per l'Italia.
In order to do so, the new company aims at a deep integration between the Central Structures and Section Departments located on the national territory, providing two main offices (one in Rome and one in Milan) and three additional engineering hubs (Genoa, Florence, Turin, etc.).
Collaborations
In 2021 Tecne designed, with partners of primary specialized relevance in its fields of expertise, a series of specialized startup projects with the aim of creating the ideal environment for the stimulation of innovation, creativity and digitalization in the engineering fields that are the focus of its activities. Tecne can thus count on the specialized expertise of two new players in the engineering world.
Bridge Designers
Bridge Designers (TecneSperi srl) is a new engineering company owned by Tecne and Studio Speri, operating in the engineering of Bridges and Viaducts, with particular regard to the regulations and techniques for the modernisation of existing assets and newly designed innovative infrastructures.
Bridge Designers will soon become a key national player in the industry of bridge and viaduct engineering and will benefit from the support of all the entities of the group: Amplia, for the construction of assets, Movyon, for the digitalisation of asset management, Tecne, for sustainability issues, Free to X and Elgea, for igniting an innovative vision of mobility service and its energy performance.
Advanced Tunneling
Advanced Tunneling (TecneSWS-Systra srl) is a new engineering company born from the collaboration between Tecne, SWS and its parent company Systra, operating in underground engineering, with particular regard to tunnelling.
Advanced Tunneling aims to soon become a key national player in the field of innovative and sustainable technological excavation solutions and in the modernisation of existing tunnels. Advanced Tunneling will be supported by an ecosystem of skills guaranteed by the other group companies.
Movyon
Tecne will work in close synergy with Movyon, the technology hub of the ASPI Group.
While Movyon focuses on all technological opportunities that can enhance and expand the travel experience, Tecne's priority is to maintain a safe, sustainable, durable physical infrastructure.
With its technological and digitization capabilities, Movyon is creating tools that will provide Tecne with Big Data that will be transformed into Big Knowledge. The combination of civil engineering and innovation-research, which is unique at Italian level, will enable the creation of digital, smart, increasingly safe infrastructures.
La collaborazione fra le due società consentirà ad Movyon di accedere a una grande mole di dati già "strutturati", da utilizzare come base di partenza per ricerca e sviluppo.
Allo stesso tempo, Tecne potrà digitalizzare completamente i processi di ingegneria, utilizzando l'innovazione tecnologica prodotta da Movyon e applicandola uniformemente sulla rete autostradale.
Organization into Technical Authorities and Centers of Excellence
Tecne focuses on the realization and all aspects of the linear transport infrastructure through sustainable and innovative projects. The organization of the work outlined for the company is therefore focused on technical excellence and quality, in order to guarantee precise deadlines and costs for the implementation of projects.
Technical Authorities
Just like the most important European engineering companies, Tecne has already set up Technical Authorities, whose task is to oversee the quality and development of engineering disciplines through an in-depth study of the engineering themes that are at the heart of the Group's activities, plans for the assessment and development of the engineering skills of personnel, and open collaboration with universities and research centers aimed at updating, internationalizing and innovating the state of the art in infrastructure engineering in general and the Autostrade Group in particular.
Excellence Center
The Technical Authorities will also support the Excellence Centers, which are internal 'engineering schools' focused on the study and use of international best practices in specific and critical construction and infrastructure maintenance fields, ensuring Tecne's proactive and primary role in the development of safe, innovative, sustainable design solutions.
The most important areas that will be covered by this engineering skills development activity are:
TecNeX – the TECNE recruitment plan
Tecne currently has a large staff: more than 500 people including engineers, designers, construction managers, technicians specialized in safety coordination.
As of January 2021, the company will carry out a significant recruitment plan called "TecNeX" (an acronym for Tecne NeXt Generation), which will increase the workforce to over 1,000 engineers, researchers and scientists by 2024.
The recruiting will be carried out in collaboration with the most authoritative Italian Universities, with which Tecne will maintain a strong and constant relationship based on technical and scientific collaboration and permanent training: all Autostrade per l'Italia Group infrastructure engineers will be trained in Tecne.
Once fully operational, the company will be the most important Italian infrastructural engineering center in terms of size, innovation and importance of the activities carried out.
Corporate Governance
@tecneautostrade.it
Tecne Supplier Register
TECNE has established a process of qualification and evaluation of its suppliers, with the aim of both optimizing the process of procurement of professional services, and to facilitate compliance with the principles of free competition , transparency and proportionality.
The tool supporting the process above is the Supplier Register, which collects information on qualified suppliers, i.e. all and only suppliers that TECNE may resort to for the procurement of professional services.
New suppliers may be enrolled the Register upon the successful qualification process, which activates once the supplier concerned submits the relevant request.
Once the supplier has been granted the personal access credentials to the Supplier Portal, it may upload the mandatory documentation required for the qualification process.
The qualification is granted upon successful updating of the documentation provided and subject to the quality of the services provided, which will be subject to periodic assessment.
Gian Paolo Melis
Chief Executive Officer
Ennio Cascetta
Chairman
Ennio Cascetta was born in Naples on 16 December 1953. Since 1986 he has been full professor of Transportation Systems Planning at the Federico II University of Naples and lecturer in Advanced Modelling of Transportation Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He is also the author of academic texts adopted in numerous countries and of over 150 works published worldwide.
He has been Chairman of Anas Spa, Coordinator of the Technical Department for Strategic Direction, Infrastructure Development and High Surveillance of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport, Sole Director of RAM Spa, an in-house company of the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport and Chairman of Metropolitana di Napoli Spa. He was Councillor for Transport in the Campania Region from 2000 to 2010.
He was scientific coordinator for the drafting of the 2000 General Transport and Logistics Plan (PGTL) e director of the Second Finalized Transport Project of the CNR. He is chairman of the Cluster Trasporti Italia and Chairman of the Board of Directors of TECNE Autostrade per l'Italia S.p.A. Group.