Leaving Milan to admire some landscapes of Sardinia, without forgetting our responsibility towards those natural landscapes. A different way to team up; our way.

How does, a company like ours, organize a team building day? Living an experience in line with our values and in contact with nature; indeed, inside the nature.

Last October, during our Team Meeting in Sardinia, we dedicated an entire day to relaxation, on a sailing boat trip to enjoy the warm climate of an unexpected summer queue all together.

We departed from Stintino toward the Asinara Island, on a sailboat with a skipper who acted as our guide and assigned maneuvers to be performed as a team. We stopped along the way to Asinara to swim off the island. Arriving at the small port of Cala Reale, we went into the paths of the island to discover the landscape, the rich biodiversity, the beaches and its famous inhabitants: the white donkeys.

Returning to Stintino, we enjoyed a break on board to enjoy a light lunch based on appetizers, spaghetti with prawns and cherry tomatoes and good local white wine.

During the short trip to the sea in the Protected Area of the Asinara Island, we dedicated some time to our 2022 Environmental Day, picking up the rubbish left, unfortunately, around the island and on the beach where we stopped. We have collected and separated it by type and removed it from this beautiful natural environment.

This is how we live our professional mission and also our way of living on this planet, with commitment and respect for what surrounds us.

Sustainability, from various points of view, was at the center of our usual annual meeting.

We went to Sardinia to visit Sassari, Alghero and Asinara, and above all, for the annual meeting to share the value generated by our people and projects, for customers and the community.

The SHELTER 2022 Team Meeting Headquarter was our new office in Sassari.

It was an opportunity, as well as for a Safety Moment, to discuss new activities and services that we are approaching on the topics:

• Sustainability, understood both as a service to customers and as per SHELTER approach: by the first months of 2023 we will present our first Sustainability Report
• Sustainable Safety.

Sustainability

We have decided to share our ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) results and objectives in the first Sustainability Report, which will be prepared on the basis of 2022 data and shared with stakeholders at the beginning of next year.

To achieve this, the contributions and inputs of every member of SHELTER team and our stakeholders will be essential to maximize the impact of the company’s vision and strategy for sustainable development.

At the same time, we actively support our clients to understand, define and communicate the ESG impact of their businesses. This is the first step in planning carbon footprint mitigation measures, as well as policies aimed at greater inclusiveness, equity and participation for the benefit of the competitiveness of organizations.

Furthermore, we shared a recent case study on the comparative assessment of the carbon footprint of a product made with different materials (plastic, recycled plastic, recycled paper pulp) through the study of its life cycle (LCA – Life Cycle Assessment). This example has shown that the issue of sustainability is increasingly becoming a decision-making factor that allows companies to implement solutions with a lower carbon footprint, based on objective and realistic data.

Sustainable security

We want to create internally, and support our customers in this area, a type of sustainability declined as “safety of people“, at work and in life.

The basis is the “Culture of Safety”, a set of organizational processes, professional practices, written and informal rules and regulations, language, way of thinking, perceiving and dealing with dangerous situations and risks.

Culture is linked to the values of the organization, affects personal values and creates “an added value for each person within the organization, and for the wider society”: an interdependence between individuals and the community within the which we live.

How to understand what is the Culture of Safety in your organization?

And how to make it grow?

There are many ways, our part from an analysis of the organization and how it manages the business processes that affect safety, to assess the maturity of the company (overall or by focusing on specific critical areas) and define strategic actions and operational plans.

The goal is to embark on a virtuous path that leads to change in behavior based on mutual trust.

Some actions may include:

• The identification of areas to work on for the definition of a vision and strategies in favor of safety
• Training and coaching at different levels to stimulate safe behaviors and supplant “bad habits”
• Make habitual and motivate to intervene and make “wise” decisions in case of unsafe situations
• Empower people and become guarantors of their own and others’ safety.

Here we are, SHELTER’s office based in Sassari is finally in full operation!

The historical building “Palazzo Segni”, located in viale Umberto I n.52, Sassari, also hosting the Department of History, human sciences and education of the University of Sassari, has been selected as ideal setting for our operations in Sardinia, improving SHELTER’s footprint and capabilities to respond to clients’ needs.

In fact, as already demonstrated with and by SHELTER’s office in Brindisi, the mix of international know-how with local presence and knowledge is a key distinguishing pillar of SHELTER’s development and diversification strategy.

The decision to invest in this new operating office in Sardinia recognize the value and the potentiality of a unique territory where large and strategic industrial assets cohabit with and exceptional natural capital; sustainability, green economy and net to zero policies can find here their natural and solid development conditions.

The responsibility of Sardinian office has been given to Alessandro Aresu, a professional environmental engineer with strong background in environmental and sustainability programs definition and implementation, some of them regarding Sardinia territory:

“After more than 20 years of professional engagement in challenging projects either for Italian and international enterprises, I am excited to give back to my territory what I learned and experienced, conscious about the differences and diversities that, according to SHELTER’s and my personal view, represent a value rather than a limit”.

Contact: alessandro.aresu@shelter-srl.com

With the official amendment of the Italian Republic’s Constitution, the protection of the environment and biodiversity becomes one of the pillars of our country.

A necessary step in line with the new environmental awareness, in a country like Italy that holds the record of infringement procedures and violations of European directives on the environment and climate laws.

With the reform, “the protection of the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems, in the interest of future generations”, is included among the fundamental principles of the Constitutional Charter (Article 9 of the Constitution).

“The Republic promotes the development of culture and scientific and technical research. It protects the landscape and the historical and artistic heritage of the nation.

It protects the environment, biodiversity and ecosystems, also in the interest of future generations. State law regulates the methods and forms of animal protection”.

Furthermore, in the matter of private economic initiative, the existing rule (art. 41 of the Constitution) is supplemented by providing that this activity cannot be carried out in such a way as to damage health and the environment.

“Private economic initiative is free. It cannot take place in conflict with social utility or in a way that damages health, the environment, safety, freedom, human dignity. The law determines the appropriate programs and controls so that public and private economic activity can be directed and coordinated for social and environmental purposes”.

This integration represents an epochal fact and we hope it will find a prompt confirmation also in the facts.

The role of a company like ours, therefore, becomes even more important, because it is our task to help our customers to operate in compliance with health, safety and environment applicable laws, to balance the growth of their business with resilience, to achieve compliance and reducing, or eliminating, risks by protecting our natural environment.

For many, 2021 was the year of awareness of how much we must strive to improve the sustainability of coexistence with the environment around us. For us, this has been a daily commitment for more than a decade and also in the year that is ending we have supported our Clients in carrying out their business, respecting the environment and people.

The 10% turnover growth is the result of a consolidation on important and international projects. In addition to consolidating our role in supporting the management of the environmental aspects of the TAP pipeline, we have put resources and skills available in Canada, supporting our Client in preparing a tender to improve local mobility in a sustainable way and in Saudi Arabia, in the NEOM‘s visionary project: ‘The Line’.

Our operational commitment goes hand by hand with research: we participated and supported an initiative such as “Energy & Strategy Observatories”, which allowed us to take part into discussions with the major players in the sector at national level.

We owe all this to the results obtained with our work and to the trust that companies and institutions have given us – such as the Politecnico di Milano -, a trust that still allows us to grow and look to 2022 with enthusiasm and desire to do.

Our wishes for a Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year therefore go to all our people, collaborators, customers and partners.