GVG ENGINEERING

Most important areas of expertise in various engineering sectors

Railway and underground design: planning of the infrastructure and design of the civil and technological project.
Road and intersections design: planning and following design of local roads, rural roads, highways with relevant junctions.
Concrete and iron structures: bridges, tunnels, culverts, walls.
Structure design of Architectural buildings.
Hydraulic engineer: works on natural and artificial water courses and dredging system relevant to road/railway projects.
Maritime engineering: metocean, hydro and morpho-dynamic studies, navigation and dredging channel design, piers, breakwaters, ports and quays design.
Geotechnics: soil investigation with specifications and results analysis, Settlement, short and long term stability analyses, Soil improvement systems.
Site supervision.
Third part check.
Project management in compliance to UNI 21500
Computation of works
Rendering, 3D and 4D movies with the sequence of the construction phases.
Assistance to contractor in order to prepare tender documents.

Alessandro Villa – co-founder partner

Mr Villa is a railway senior engineer.

He graduated in Transport Civil Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1980 and is a registered technical consultant of the Court of Milan (transport category).

He began his professional career at Polytecna Harris (Milan) where he was in charge of the S. Filippo-Messina section of the Messina-Palermo railway.

In Technital SpA (Milan), he was Project Manager of the Piacenza and Modena (relocation of the historical railway line) sections of the Milan-Bologna high-speed railway. He dealt with the final design stage, the execution and the construction phases carrying on assistance on the site during works on site.

Mr Villa’s other projects include: the rail link between the terminals T1 - T2 of the Malpensa Milan Airport and the new train station at terminal T2, the rail link between Bari airport and Bari city center, the Airport of Verona.

Michele Galanti – co-founder partner

Mr. Galanti is a road senior engineer.

He graduated in Transport Civil Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1997. He began his professional career abroad working as road design engineer for the Ministry of Transportation and Highways of the British Columbia (Canada) and as head of technical office for Impregilo at Shanx Whanjiazhai Yellow River Diversion Project in China. He worked also as junior structural engineer at Studio de Miranda Associati (Milan) in the role of bridge designer.

In the following years, he gained professional experience in Technital SpA (Milan) dealing with road design and large-scale infrastructure project management in Italy and abroad. Among many: the Milan - Bologna high speed railway (in particular the Piacenza and Modena sections), the Pedemontana Lombarda highway, the road network of the new port of Al Faw in Iraq, the rehabilitation of the national road RN9 in Djibouti, the highway which reaches Skikda in Algeria.

Michele Galanti is certified by Accredia as PROJECT MANAGER in compliance to UNI 11648:2016 and is certified as safety coordinator in compliance to D.lgs. 81/2008.

Alessandro Grassi – co-founder partner

Mr. Grassi is a structural and geotechnical senior engineer.

He graduated in Structural Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 1999 and began his professional career in the field of geotechnical engineering at Studio Garassino where he was responsible for the final project of the foundations of the Milan-Bologna high speed railway.

In the following years, he gained professional experience in Technital SpA (Milan) dealing with structural design and large-scale infrastructure project management in Italy and abroad. Among the most important: MOSE project in Venice, the Milan - Bologna high speed railway (in particular the Piacenza and Modena sections), the Mestre highway bypass, the Pedemontana Lombarda highway, the tender for the Doha underground railway(Qatar), the railway in Oman, the structures and systems of the new port of Al Faw in Iraq, the advice and planning activities for the Ministry of Transportation in Djibouti.

Alessandro Grassi is certified by Accredia as PROJECT MANAGER in compliance to UNI 11648:2016.

Main infrastructural projects

Relocation of the railway between Bari and Bari Torre a Mare: detailed design of about 10 km of main double track railway and about 3 km of secondary double track railway parallel to the main one. The design includes also concrete culverts, geotechnics and hydraulic aspects.
Extraordinary maintenance of bike and pedestrian bridge over the railway Milano – Canzo – Asso at Paderno Dugnano: detailed design. The aim of the design consists in the calculation and check of part of the structure which is damaged.
Rural road at Gessate (Milan) to bypass the centre of the town: detailed design. The project consists of roads, structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, safety barriers, road signs, construction phases. The entire project includes about 4 km of roads with bike path aside and three roundabouts for the connection with existent roads.
Accessibility infrastructures for the intermodal link between Genoa Airport, the city and the port: preliminary and detailed design realized as BIM project – The project consists of roads, structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, safety barriers, road signs, construction phases inside Port of Genoa. The entire project includes about 7 km of roads at grade as well as in viaduct, 4 viaducts in combined structure iron and concrete, a roundabout interchange on double level, L walls and U walls to reduce the occupancy of the ramps, the enlargement of the old highway inside the port to be reused and the demolition of the old ones around the historical Lanterna tower.
Roads close to the new High Speed railway Napoli-Bari: detailed design - The project consists of roads, structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, safety barriers, road signs. The entire project includes about 10 km relevant to 40 rural roads, intersections, roundabout, local roads to access to technological building of the railway. Support concrete structures realized by concrete poles and diaphragms.
Aposazza – Highway A14: detailed design - The project consists of roads, structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, safety barriers, road signs, lighting plant. The entire project includes about 1 km of local road, 3 km of highway ramps, viaducts, culverts, double layer intersection and the remaking of the toll barrier with the relevant buildings.
Demolition and construction of the viaduct on the railway Salerno-San Severino: preliminary design - The project consists of roads and structures. The entire project includes about 1 km of urban road, road intersections, one concrete box tunnel.
Urban Road at Buccinasco: preliminary and detailed design - The project consists of roads, geotechnics, hydraulics, lighting plant and structures. The entire project includes about 1 km of urban double carriageway road with bike path aside.
Storstrom Bridge – Danimarca: preliminary and detailed design - The project consists of roads, railway, structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, safety barriers, road signs, maritime. The entire project includes about 10 km of rural roads, intersections, roundabout, local roads, 7 km of high speed railway and 6 km of bike path. Marine works consist of dredges, quays, slope protection, reclamation, sheet piles.
Isola della Scala intermodal center close to Verona: master plan – road and railway links to the intermodal center and study of the transport organization of the intermodal area.
Enlargement of Bologna highway bypass – Detailed design of 8 concrete box tunnels. These structures are part of the enlargement of the third lane of the highway and consist in the connection between the old existent structure with the new ones.
Strada Nazionale RN9 a Djibouti: detailed design - The project consists of roads, structures, geotechnics, hydraulics, safety barriers, road signs, lighting plant. The entire project includes about 9 km of rural road which crosses 10 different wadi on concrete multiple box culverts.

Main consultancy activity

Underground railway M2 in Milan: structural rehabilitation of the underground concrete structures in order to counteract the water inflow between the stations Porta Genova and S. Ambrogio.
Motorway D1 Lietavska Lucka – Visnove – Dubna Skala in Slovacchia: consultancy activity to support and to validate the contractor to develop and to sustain a claim with the Employer.
Autoroutiere Reliant Le Port de Skikda a L'autoroute Est-Ouest: consultancy activity to control and to validate the design of the highway 31 km long for the Road Algerian Authority.
Pedemontana lombarda highway in Italy: consultancy activity to control the FEED design of the structures relevant to the concrete artificial tunnels, underpasses, some short bridges of the highway.
Underground M5 - Feasibily study and FEED design according to BIM Method of viaduct above North Milan motorway.
Upgrading of the highway SP 46 Rho-Monza with motorway performance – Techincal consultancy for check activity of the detailed design of the main road, the intersections and the local roads.

Main architectural and building structural projects

Villa Trubetzkoy on Como lake in Italy: detailed design of the structural part of the new dependence building (1000 cm of volume) , the restructuration of part of the ancient villa and the stabilization of the mountain slope. New floating pier for mooring of boats.
Data Center Building: preliminary design of the all the works outside the main building (road, plant, hydraulic network, sewage network, electric network (HV e LV), TLC network, CCTV, ecc.) as a BIM project.
CIS service activity: structural engineering service in order to certificate the static suitability of existing buildings.
Electric service building for motorway project.