TAP is one of the most important infrastructures for the energy supply of our continent.

The TAP (Trans Adriatic Pipeline) is an international methane pipeline more than 800 km long that affects onshore and offshore areas, crossing Greece, Albania and the Adriatic Sea to land in its last 8 km stretch in Puglia. It is part of the Southern Gas Corridor (SGC) and is entering its operational phase, allowing methane from the Caspian Sea to be conveyed to the European gas distribution network, thus diversifying the sources of European energy supply.

TAP in Italy

TAP is connected to the national methane gas distribution network managed by Snam Rete Gas to feed the virtual exchange point (PSV) from which the various national and European users can be reached.

The construction of the pipeline received the environmental compatibility approval from the Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea; during its construction it was therefore subjected to an articulated environmental monitoring project which concerned and will continue to concern all the design phases (ante-operam, construction and post-operam).

SHELTER’s participation

We have been involved in:

• Support the COMPANY on environmental, archaeological and social issues in the preparatory stages of construction and during construction itself: SHELTER staff has been based in Salento for several years and is permanently part of the Integrated Project Management Team;
• Execute and coordinate the envisaged activities as part of the Environmental Monitoring Project, ensuring compliance with the requirements of the Environmental Compatibility decree.

SHELTER has also played a leading role in the management of olive trees, typical elements of the Salento economic and landscape substrate; a few hundred olive trees have been explanted, temporarily stored in nursery conditions in a dedicated area and will shortly be relocated to their original position. It was, and still is, one of the crucial activities for the construction of the pipeline and our Claudio Scura is taking care of it personally, as you can see in this video:

We have joined the membership program of the Italian Environment Fund (FAI). A concrete gesture to give value to the Corporate Social Responsibility of our company.

In our first ten years of business we have always looked around and tried to contribute to the well-being of the community. We have helped worthy initiatives in line with our philosophy of social responsibility.

This year, we decided to support FAI – the Italian Environment Fund by joining the Corporate Golden Donor membership program. With FAI, we want to carry out a large protection project that is also an ambitious cultural challenge: to make Italy a more beautiful place to live, work and raise our children.

The landscape and cultural heritage, which the FAI safeguards and promotes, represents in fact a unique capital in the world and the fundamental resource on which to invest in order to revive, develop and enhance our wonderful country.

Thanks to the support of its numerous members, both private citizens and companies, the FAI has been protecting and managing 66 assets throughout the national territory for over 40 years. Important historical, artistic and landscape settlements saved from neglect, restored, protected and open to the public.

Among the assets of the FAI there are the Bay of Ieranto, in front of the Faraglioni of Capri, Casa Bortoli, a Venetian living room with a unique view of the Grand Canal, and the Garden of Kolymbethra, an earthly paradise in the heart of the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento.

Every day the FAI undertakes to protect and make accessible to all splendid jewels of art, nature and culture scattered in the countryside, in the cities and on the coasts of our country; to educate and sensitize the community to knowledge, respect and care for art and nature and to act as a spokesperson for the demands of civil society by actively monitoring and intervening in the area.

With FAI, we want a more protected and more beautiful Italy. It is a responsibility that we take as environmental sustainability professionals and as citizens.

The strategy starts from a new site, whose graphic design is dedicated to the environment that surrounds us, from the renewal of the entire visual identity and from the communication of our fundamental values.

After a graphic restyling, our logo now has a more modern design, always respecting its original version to which we are very linked. Next to a new font and a new payoff, the coloured pinwheel remained, representing the different services offered, the dynamism of the wind and of the company itself.

The graphic theme of the site is a continuous reference to the environment, to the sustainability of doing business made possible by the company’s activity, which works to reconcile business and the environment.

The communication strategy also includes a social channel. SHELTER’s LinkedIn page will bring together all members of our team, with institutional and sector content.

Our company celebrates ten years of activity in 2020. Running again through the mile stones of this first double-digit birthday makes us to look back on where we started and where we are.

The initial small team of 6 colleagues is now a work team of more than 20 people.

Our business is constantly on the move:

• we have completed international projects and others are ongoing;
• we have signed new partnerships; 
• a new partner has joined the company.

This anniversary comes at a difficult time for Milan, the city in which we operate, but it makes us to look to the future with optimism. Happy birthday SHELTER.

We work in an international context and, in order to meet the demands of our customers, we have always explored the market trying to identify reliable partners with offices located abroad.

What we were looking for was a company that was active in Europe, Africa, Middle East and Asia. The first contact with RSK Group Limited, an English company, took place via social networks. The collaboration was born after the visit of their Business Director to the SHELTER headquarters, having understood that “we” had a common vision.

The partnership agreement with RSK Group Limited has allowed us to improve the offer of HSE services to our customers abroad (Environment, Health and Safety).

The project that inaugurated this collaboration is also the most important in the ten-year history of our company, the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), a gas pipeline that crosses Greece and Albania from the Greek-Turkish border to land in Italy, on the Adriatic coast of the province of Lecce, allowing the flow of natural gas from the Caspian Sea area (Azerbaijan) to Italy and Europe.

A prestigious and challenging project which immediately tested the efficiency of the partnership with RSK.

The good results of the partnership allowed us in 2017 to take over a portion of the shares of RSK Environment Italia Srl, the first headquarters of RSK Group Limited in Italy, actively contributing to company management and being part of the board of directors.The services provided by RSK Environment Italia Srl are complementary to ours, supporting us in the characterization and remediation of contaminated sites.

Everything that can improve a company in commercial, qualitative, organizational and production terms should be considered taking into account the environmental and health and safety aspects.

Ensuring the continuous improvement of SHELTER means customize our services to the Clients requests to sustain their business in accordance with the highest HSEQ standards.

We immediately adopted a quality management system to give us organizational rules that are typical of the large companies operating in international contexts.

This drive was born from the need to create an organizational and cultural context even if in a small reality that can meet the needs of our Clients. The quality management system has been certified according to the UNI EN ISO 9001 standard since 2015 and has helped us to set objectives for diversifying the Clients and the services to be provided.

Our commitment to the environment, health and safety is attested by the adoption of management systems certified in accordance with UNI EN ISO 14001 (since 2019) and UNI EN ISO 45001 (since 2017 initially according to the standard BS OHSAS 18001).

For each individual project, we plan to update the risk assessment / environmental analysis to avoid, where possible, or in any case minimize the dangers in order to make them sustainable, in order to protect workers, public health and the environment.

One of our main targets for 2020 is to achieve the single integrated HSEQ certification.

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