D' Apollonia

Website: http://www.dappolonia.it
Country: Italy

D'Appolonia is a private Engineering Consulting company with more than 230 employees, offering technical consultancy services to industries, governmental bodies and public administrations, and research organizations. The company is based in Genoa, Italy, having also offices in Milan, Rome, Brindisi, Naples, Brussels, Beijing and Pittsburgh. The firm had been founded in 1956 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania by Prof. Elio D’Appolonia. During the early years of geotechnical engineering, D’Appolonia pioneered applications of basic soil mechanics to the design and construction of foundations and earthworks for industrial and power applications. Branch offices were established in Europe, including Italy. Since 1981 D’Appolonia is a fully independent Italian company and operates in diverse fields of engineering such as civil, geotechnical and construction engineering, construction and environmental management, security, health and safety assessment. Materials and process engineering as well as modelling are horizontal expertises applied as enabling knowledge to the majority of the company’s projects. Since 1990, D’Appolonia has been deeply involved in Contract Research activities in several industrial sectors like construction. In particular, D’Appolonia’s effort has been focused on the development and application of innovative materials/processes and modelling tools in the abovementioned industrial applications transferring technologies from other sectors as well as providing completely new technological opportunities. Activities in the field of civil engineering comprehend construction management for both construction of new buildings and retrofitting of existing buildings. Within this framework, D'Appolonia provides services in the field of project management for both the design and construction phases of both construction as well as installation projects. More specifically, D’Appolonia generally undertakes supervision activities related to construction and installation, thereby providing work supervision, preparation/review of technical specifications, provision of technical assistance during installation, structural performance monitoring and final verification prior to operation. Moreover, D'Appolonia's activities of supervision of construction and installation projects generally also include qualified expert evaluations of the safety issues related to complex civil engineering projects, as well as certification of works.