Verona Airport, 80% of the work on the new passenger terminal completed

The choice of state-of-the-art technology and the quality of the materials will significantly lower the buildings' energy requirements (minus 80,000 kWh per year thanks to photovoltaics), reduce Co2 emissions by around 700 tonnes/year and save a total of more than 1.2 million kWh per year thanks to energy efficiency.

The use of continuous glazed walls and ventilated opaque walls made of high-performance materials will result in an optimal level of energy efficiency. On the roof of the building, 200 latest-generation anti-reflection photovoltaic modules will be installed, and the materials used for the building work will come from recycled materials (approximately 40%), and in turn recyclable from 30% (cement products) to 100% (ferrous products). The lighting will be realised with high-efficiency LED systems that are fully automated through sensors to reduce consumption.

The main contract for the Romeo Project was awarded, through a tender, to the Temporary Grouping of Companies: Itinera, a leading international player in the construction of large civil and industrial building infrastructures, and Sinelec, a technology company that develops advanced technological systems and plants for infrastructures, both part of the ASTM Group, the world's second largest motorway operator, as well as Leonardo, one of the world's leading players in the aerospace, defence and security sectors.

Among the main interventions included in the project are the architectural redevelopment of the check-in hall, where the check-in desks will increase from the current 40 to 46, including self check-in and self baggage drop stations; the construction of new boarding halls on the first floor (from the current 13 to a total of 19 boarding gates) with three new towers the construction of a new state-of-the-art hold baggage control system; the construction of new security control machines on the first floor; the installation of the Airport Checkpoint, the new fully automated boarding pass reading system that checks the validity of passengers' travel documents.

For the president of Catullo Spa, Paolo Arena, "A great team of workers at all levels is efficiently and on schedule carrying out the Romeo Project, with results that are already partially part of the passenger experience. My personal thanks go to all the shareholders of Catullo who in unison, by supporting two capital increases, have supported a development project that has changed the face of Verona airport. A special thanks goes to Enrico Marchi, president of the Save Group, whose vision has determined the creation of the North-Eastern Airport Hub, within which Catullo is expressing its potential at its best in terms of traffic and infrastructural evolution".

And the managing director Catullo Spa adds: 'The complexity of reconciling such an important construction site with a daily operation characterised by constantly growing traffic flows in terms of number of flights and destinations, represents a challenge that is already yielding results for all to see.

The President of the Veneto Region, Luca Zaia, recalls how they are "working on the development of the rail link between Verona airport, Verona and Lake Garda for a rail interconnection between Catullo and the Verona-Mantova and Milan-Venice lines and, consequently, the entire national Brenner route. More than ever before, the territory needs a system between transport networks, for a mobility that, while respecting the environment, guarantees greater sustainability to road transport and allows the development of the airport as an important part of the North-Eastern airport pole'.