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.

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.