IMPACT: The Project Team

Established in 1956, since the beginning CESI has been a market leader in testing, certification of electromechanical equipment and electrical power system studies offering the services of its widely reputed technicians to electrical utilities, electro-mechanical and electronic manufacturers, large-scale users of electric power.

In the frame of the privatization of the Italian electric system and the consequent reorganization of the National Electric Company, CESI acquired from ENEL (the main Italian Electric Utility) its R&D activities in generation, transmission, distribution, end-use of electricity, environment, renewable energies and -last but not least- support services to hydraulic engineering. The merger has grown a company covering all sectors in the electro-energy fields, that can be considered as global power consultant, contract research organization and provider of services and special equipment for the electric industry and public administration.
CESI is a private company whose shareholders represent the various components of the electric sector: electrical utilities (Enel Group, Edison, Sondel, AEM of Milan and Turin), the Italian Independent System Operator (GRTN), leading European electromechanical groups (ABB, Alstom, Pirelli, Schneider, Ansaldo, Siemens etc), and industrial users.

Today CESI is employing about 1000 people and it is operating in more than 40 countries world-wide.

Typical CESI environmental services are: impact assessment studies, ecology system analysis and assessment, applying physical and biological models, town and country planning analysis, land use studies, landscape analysis and assessment, analysis of planning and legislative framework, meteoclimatic characterisation, air quality and deposition monitoring and modelling, emission characterisation and control, acoustical impact analysis, assessment of the electromagnetic fields environmental effects, meteorological forecast (on synoptic and local scale).

CESI services in the environmental-hydraulic engineering fields include:

• studying coastal morphodynamics and designing beach defence works;
• environmental feasibility studies for big structures;
• plans to prevent and reduce hydrogeological and hydraulic risk;
• plans for protection of population and for emercency management;
• design, building and management of hydrogeological and hydraulic monitoring systems;
• natural risk analysis;
• physical and numerical modelling of flood propagation, also in urban areas.

Born on April 10th, 1965, Italy. Physicist

Graduated in 1988, after a previous experience as a researcher in electrical power production field, from 1998 he is involved in hydraulic physical and numerical modelling, employed by ENEL Research, Hydraulic and Structural Center (now annexed to CESI - Business Unit Environment).

Key Qualifications:

• Digital image processing techniques (such as PIV) applied to hydraulic physical modelling;
• Visualization techniques applied to numerical modelling;
• Mathematical models for natural and dam-break flood propagation;
• Evaluation of landslide-generated impulse-waves in reservoirs.

Involvement in IMPACT project concerns flood propagation in urban areas.

Born on October 21st, 1965, Italy. Environmental Engineer - Project manager

Graduated in 1990, after three years of activity in a consulting company working in the field of Land Planning, Restoration Projects and Impact Assessment, he joined ENEL Research, Hydraulic and Structural Center (now annexed to CESI - Business Unit Environment) in november 1994. Since then he has been involved in conducting hydology and hydraulics studies by means of numerical and physical modelling techniques.

Memberships: Milan Order of Engineers, ENEL working group for "Reservoir sedimentation problems", ITCOLD (Italian Commission on Large Dams), IAHR (International Association for Hydraulic Research), IAHS (International Association of Hydrological Sciences).

Key Qualifications:

• Mathematical models for natural and dam-break flood propagation;
• Water resources management: rainfall-runoff models, multi-purpose management of natural of artificial reservoirs;
• River problems: sedimentation/erosion, floods;
• Testing and optimization of hydraulic works: surge tanks, spillways, stilling basins;
• Enviromental impact Assessment;
• Project management;
• Proposal and Marketing;

Involvement in IMPACT project concerns Steering Group membership and flood propagation in urban areas.