After five years of operational presence in the Apulian territory, mainly in support of the TAP project, we are proud to announce the opening of our new operational hub in Brindisi.

Located in the heart of the city, the new headquarters borns to consolidate the positioning and mission of SHELTER in a strategic area due to the great potential development opportunities offered.

The availability of a local presence will also allow us to strengthen the bond with the territory and offer the possibility of a more direct and personal relationship with our customers.

The office activities will be coordinated by Claudio Scura, a partner of the company with many years of experience gained in the Apulian territorial context.

Hereafter the details of the new headquarters, which is added to the main one in Milan:

SHELTER srl

Via De’ Terribile n° 4, 72100 Brindisi (Italy)

info@shelter-srl.com

Keep up the good work

Light pollution is a rapidly growing form of pollution (+ 7% per year, source ARPAV) that disturbs not only humans but also animals and plants.

Among the sources that can cause this type of pollution (public, street, private lights, etc.) there is also the lighting of construction sites.

On one of the construction sites we’ve worked on, we’ve faced the impact of artificial night lights on bees and their ability to produce honey.

Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are diurnal pollinators and their foraging activity depends on solar and celestial signals. Scientific studies show that changes in global horizontal irradiation and in the properties of light can damage their foraging activity.

Through industry experts, we have been called to analyze the potential effect of construction lights on bees and nocturnal insects. We therefore carried out specific monitoring to quantify the possible impact of lights on the activity of bees (in particular on activity at sunset) and nocturnal insects.

Our monitoring made it possible to propose mitigation proceedings such as the optimization of the positioning, orientation and timing of switching on the site lights.

An optimal management of the measuring instruments, in addition to ensuring compliance with legal requirements and standards and the needs of the customer, helps to provide greater confidence in the
reliability of the measurement system of the data provided. The instruments we used for the measurement of characteristics having a direct influence on the object or on the provision of the service to the customer, are subjected to periodic calibration, or before use, in order to maintain a metrological traceability chain with instruments of the highest known degree of precision.

In order to keep the measuring and monitoring devices under control, we have adopted a specific procedure included in its Integrated Manual of the HSEQ Management System compliant with ISO 9001: 2015, ISO 14001: 2015 and ISO 45001: 2018. In accordance with this procedure, an Instrument List has been prepared and an Instrument Sheet for each of the devices showing the characteristics of the instrument, the measurement range and uncertainty, the methods and frequency of maintenance, control and calibration.

When recourse is made to the temporary procurement of measuring instruments from external suppliers or when activities to be carried out by suppliers involving the use of measuring instruments are envisaged, SHELTER ensures (in accordance with the HSEQ Management System) that these instruments are in calibration status against instruments or comparative references certified on the basis of nationally or internationally recognized standards.

Our multidisciplinary approach covers the entire life cycle of works or activities that have potential impacts on the territory.

From 2020 preventive archaeology (Article 28 paragraph 4 of Legislative Decree 42/2004 and Article 25 of Legislative Decree 50/2016) has been included among the internal skills of SHELTER thanks to the new orders for on site archaeological assistance and for the drafting of Archaeological Impact Assessments (ViARCH) for network works in very complex territories from the landscape and historical-archaeological point of view.

In the photo, our archaeologists are engaged in the field survey (or surface archaeological reconnaissance), one of the activities that characterize the preliminary verification procedure of the archaeological interest as it is aimed at verifying, analysing and mapping the traces identified with indirect investigation methods such as archaeological photo-interpretation or to identify any unknown sites of archaeological interest through the study of archaeological remains such as ceramic pottery or construction materials present on the surface of the fields.

Through the cataloguing and analysis of all the archaeological data, the maps of the archaeological potential of the territory under study will be elaborated and, starting from these, by relating the findings and their typology with works as part of the project, the risk evaluation or archaeological impact of the project will be carried out with the aim of providing the client and authorities with the greatest possible support for obtaining authorizations and any optimization of the design.

During 2020, many had to reinvent and change the way to work and do business.

We have had confirmation that the environment in which we live and work must be respected and protected to be able to do business in a solid and sustainable way.

In this difficult year we are committed to continue working alongside you, putting all our energies and resources into being prompt, professional and not betraying your trust, and we will continue to do so…!

SHELTER and all his staff wish you Merry Christmas and a peaceful start to the New Year.

Since the beginning, SHELTER has adopted a Quality Management System to provide itself organizational rules typical of large companies operating in international contexts. The Quality Management System has been certified since 2015 according to the UNI EN ISO 9001 standard, while the commitment to the Environment, Health and Safety is certified by the adoption of certified management systems in accordance with UNI EN ISO 14001 (from 2015) and UNI EN ISO 45001 (from 2017, initially in accordance with the BS OHSAS 18001 standard).

Today our company has unified the management systems already adopted, and individually certified for Quality, Health, Safety and Environment, into a single HSEQ management system, obtaining the relative certification as an “integrated system”.

Certifying the management system in compliance with the reference standards represents our will to manage the issues Health, Safety, Environment and Quality (in an acronym “HSEQ”) through an organizational model with a prevention view, with the aim of obtaining a continuous improvement in performance.

An integrated system will allow the company to manage the HSEQ aspects with the same methodological approach, as well as having further advantages:

• an update from an organizational and strategic point of view;

• an update from an organizational and strategic point of view;
• the creation of a single improvement plan that simultaneously considers the HSEQ aspects;
• the involvement of staff, at any level, to contribute to the efficiency of the management of the HSEQ aspects and system;
• simplification from a documentary point of view (now some records will be integrated and, therefore, the data will be easier to monitor and manage);
• an increase in the company rating.

Finally, an efficient Certified Integrated Management System will help to improve our services, always aiming for the best possible customer satisfaction.