BACKGROUND

TECHNITAL is a private joint stock company which was established in 1964, under the name of TECHNITAL International General Engineering S.p.A. During the succeeding forty years the original company has absorbed other companies of the TECHNITAL Group and undergone a series of merges,  evolving into the strong and independent TECHNITAL S.p.A. of today.  

One of Italy’s leading consulting engineering firms, TECHNITAL is a dynamic and rapidly expanding company which specialises particularly in the field of transport infrastructures (roads and motorways, railways, inland waterways, urban transport planning & traffic studies, port & airport infrastructures). Other main sectors of activity are water and environmental engineering, marine and coastal works, and structures.

Thanks to its high level of expertise, its dynamic nature and versatility; management autonomy and efficiency and its sophisticated hardware equipment and software libraries, Technital has been awarded highly significant national and international projects.

On the national scene TECHNITAL’s experience and reputation have been greatly enhanced by two major, multiple-contract projects carried on in Italy: the Sicilian motorway network and the Project to Safeguard Venice. 

The firm has is also internationally renowned, having operated in numerous developing countries throughout the world, in the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia and Latin America. TECHNITAL has been responsible for a number of highly prestigious international contracts, such as the Kagera Basin Integrated Transport Study involving Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, the New Direct High Speed Railway Dammam-Riyadh in Saudi Arabia and Gharrafa interchange in Doha, Qatar.

The company’s expanding activities abroad have led to the establishment of Regional Branch Offices in the Middle East, North Africa, Eastern Europe and Latin America.

TECHNITAL is registered with and has provided design, supervision and technical assistance services to the major international financing organizations (World Bank, EU, UNDP, EBRD, IDB, EDF, etc.). The firm has also supplied professional services to numerous foreign governmental and non-governmental organizations.

The firm's success is reflected in its growing number of professional staff and steadily increasing turnover. The Company’s annual turnover in the last five years (1998-2002), based on engineering services performed, has averaged roughly € 21,500,000 and the estimated turnover for 2003 is € 34,500,000 .

The Board of Directors is composed of four members:   the Chairman, Alberto Scotti, and three Managing Directors: Pasquale Rosato, Paolo Liberati and Massimo Raccosta.