Founded in 2010, from the far-sighted idea of Calabrian engineer Giuseppe Cervarolo, Cervarolo Ingegneria is a company highly specialised in the design and supervision of public works throughout Italy. Thanks to its highly specialised know-how, matured over many years of experience, and a team of 40 qualified and goal-oriented professionals, this all-Italian excellence has managed to assert its leadership in a highly competitive market, becoming an important point of reference in the field of school construction, healthcare, urban regeneration, and hydrogeological risk. In this long interview, Giuseppe Cervarolo talks about how important it is today to promote the overall efficiency of the construction process.
by Roberta Imbimbo
Mr Cervarolo, with what mission was Cervarolo Ingegneria born?
The company was established in 2010 in the province of Cosenza, with the objective of becoming an important reference point in the field of public works design and management, offering efficient and effective technical services in terms of quality, time, and costs. A challenge won thanks to highly specialised know-how and a multidisciplinary team of 40 professionals, all qualified, motivated and goal-oriented. Present in 17 Italian regions, in recent years Cervarolo Ingegneria has experienced exponential growth both in terms of turnover (more than doubled after the Covid period), and in terms of organisational structure and geographical expansion with the opening of new offices in Pisa, Milan, and Rome, thanks to which it is now able to operate throughout the country.
What peculiarities distinguish you from your competitors?
Thanks to a strategic vision and an innovative business approach, Cervarolo Ingegneria has managed to assert its leadership in a highly competitive market, clearly distinguishing itself from other players by the high quality of the services offered. Another highly distinctive element with high added value is the high number of young people in the company (the average age is around 30): in fact, the Management has always decided to focus on new talents to successfully face the challenges imposed by an increasingly globalised and digitalised market, and above all to re-launch an area that needs to become increasingly competitive and attractive, able to offer job prospects and personal fulfilment at the highest levels. Young people are our hope for a better tomorrow, and the fact that our company has decided to invest in them is a sign that in recent years it has been working in the right direction, with the aim of offering concrete hope to young people in Calabria to realise their professional dreams in the land where they were born and raised. In short, Cervarolo Ingegneria is today a young and dynamic, future-oriented company that is always up-to-date on the latest market developments, and seeks to curb the brain drain from its beloved land.
How important is the topic of sustainable building today? What does it really mean to design and realise a sustainable building?
Today, the topic of sustainable building is strategically important, so much so that it is included in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda. With this in mind, our mission is to design and realise high-performance and sustainable works, focusing increasingly on recyclable materials (we have realised several wooden works that guarantee a high level of seismic safety, energy efficiency and acoustic efficiency; the properties of wood also make it possible to substantially reduce the heating and cooling costs of the various structures, making them both more sustainable and more economical) and on increasingly advanced tools for analysing the environmental impact of a building. Designing and realising a new generation building product therefore means adopting innovative design, construction and plant engineering solutions, capable of limiting energy dispersion while guaranteeing high standards of safety and efficiency of the envelope and plant engineering. Thanks to increasingly high-performance recyclable materials and state-of-the-art methodologies, it is now possible to make construction processes more efficient and cost-effective. For example, it is possible to build off-site, i.e. to realise projects in the factory and then bring them to the construction site to assemble them; this is a very important revolution that allows for more efficient and precise production (reducing margins of error and the inconvenience and risks on the construction site), with lower costs and less waste. In urban regeneration projects, our goal is to avoid the consumption of new land and create green lungs within cities, with the aim of revitalising the urban landscape (historic centres, disused areas, suburbs) both culturally and economically and socially, always keeping the aspect of environmental sustainability at heart.
Many goals have been achieved to date. Future goals?
To continue to grow, exploring hitherto unexplored markets and expanding the core business to other strategic activities, such as the design and construction of high quality accommodation facilities and luxury private structures, always operating in a conscious and innovative manner.
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