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VDP took part at MEDITERRANEAN ENGINEERING GROUP 2014, the International Conference organized by Italian Foreign Trade Agency and OICE on 27th-28th November 2014 in Rome.
The Conference was an important opportunity for dialogue between the engineering companies operating in the Mediterranean area. Latest developments on the issues of Infrastructure, Environment and Energy and Smart-Cities have been addressed.
Mr. Francesco Ventura took part in the Second Working Session illustrating one of the last works of VDP in a speech entitled “Increase exchange of electrical energy between countries in a sustainable way: the challenge of the Malta-Sicily Inter-connector”.

Programme of the Conference

On 26th November 2014 VDP has been invited to the workshop “The new EIA Directive, objectives and issues for implementation”, organized in Rome by the Italian Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea.

Mr. Francesco Ventura, CEO VDP, has took part as a speaker in the session about “Procedures for cross-border projects assessment”

On 20th and 21st November 2014, VDP participated as Sponsor at the 11th National ASSTRA Conference (Association of Italian Public Transportcompanies), held in Siena - Italy.

VDP participated as Exhibitor, with a stand in the OICE cluster, at Ecomondo - International meeting on the issues of reclying of materials and energy and sustainable development. The event was held in Rimini from 5th to 8th November 2014.
VDP presented the latest projects developed in the field of impact studies and environmental monitoring, taking part in several meetings with Visitors, Customers and Companies in the sector.

On 19th September, at railway station of Fortezza, in Insarco Valley, Mr. Francesco Ventura has participated at OICE-BBT meeting, together with the Italian Hydrotechnical Association and the Order of Engineers of Perugia.
During the meeting has been presented the Brennero Tunnel project that, once completed, with its total lenght of 64 km, will become the longest underground rail link in the world (completion scheduled for 2026).
At the end of meeting, the three delegations visited the construction site of the base tunnel of Mules accessing the two galleries and the exploratory tunnel.

VDP participated as exhibitor, with a stand in OICE Cluster, at REMTECH, the exhibition on reclamation of contaminated sites and the redevelopment of areas.

The event was held at the Exhibition Centre of Ferrara on 17th-18th-19th September 2014.

During the Exhibition, VDP has also participated at the workshop organized by OICE: “The Emergency Reclamation during the construction of large Infrastructures”.
Mr. Ventura and Mr. Bellingeri of VDP discussed about: “Environmental management of construction sites: integrated monitoring of potentially contaminated sites. “

VDP has sposored the conference organized by ICE (Italian Trade Agency) entitled “Engineering: Engine of Development - Opportunities and Constraints”, which has been held in Rome on 5th June 2014 at the auditorium of “Ara Pacis”.

Main topic of the conference was the analysis of constraints that hamper the development of the infrastructure sector and the value and towing capacity of engineering and architecture for the entire construction industry in Italy and abroad.

On 12th April 2014, VDP obtained OHSAS 10811:2007 certification. OHSAS is an internationally applied British Standard for occupational health and safety management systems.

It exists to help all kinds of organizations put in place demonstrably sound occupational health and safety performance. It is a widely recognized and popular occupational health and safety management system

On March 2014 VDP took part at the Workshop “Methodologies, procedural integration and case studies in environmental assessments”, organized in Palermo by the Ministry for the Environment, Land and Sea

Ms. Sonia Occhi, Project Manager at VDP, participated at the insights concerning integration / coordination and simplification of the environmental assessment processes with a Panel on ” Sectorial study - Integrated process of EIA procedures and Interated Environmental Authorisation- an integrated model at Regional level. “