GSE Italia, among the leading players in industrial construction, attended Glasstec to tell, through the words of Stefano Piccoli, Director Operation Business Line Data Center of the company, about the experience gained during the construction of Vetropack production plant in Boffalora Sopra Ticino, Italy, built in 2023.
“The glass sector,” he said, “because of its high energy consumption and great complexity from a bureaucratic point of view, makes it necessary to have continuous collaboration between client and general contractor. GSE has been a key player from the initial stage of defining the design requirements and authorization strategy.”
It is precisely this aspect that has attracted the most attention at Glasstec: the ability of GSE Italia to be able to liaise at every stage of the authorization process with Vetropack and with the authorities in charge of the 7 planned authorizations, adapting the project as a result of emerging needs.
“It is only thanks to intensive and careful preliminary design work and the adoption of innovative design choices, shared with the client and appropriately planned with the agencies, that we were able to manage all the bureaucratic and operational phases in a very globally complex period. In fact, the job order was obtained in June 2019, the building permit was issued in July 2021, the construction site was started in August 2021, the first furnace in the plant was started in June 2023, more than two years after the start of construction, and the second began production in July 2023. Therefore, in the midst of a global pandemic and the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict with the known consequences on raw materials and energy costs,” Stefano concluded.