The large industry of tanks is regulated by specific legislation for each type and methods of use. The tanks can hold any type of substance (diesel, gasoline, resins, acids, solvents etc.) and are of different types (underground, wall, double wall etc.). The presence of thousands of underground tanks is a significant environmental threat: surveys conducted in recent years have shown the presence of pollution from hydrocarbons and organic solvents in soils and groundwater.

As we know, our health depends on the quality of the water we drink, the food we eat, the air we breathe as well as our well-being derives from a walk in the woods still intact, where the only noise is produced by running water or by wild animals.

The environment is an invaluable asset to be safeguarded for future generations.

Among the sources deemed responsible for pollution of groundwater, there are also the underground tanks that for their age, often elevated (certain buried for over 50 years), present situations of corrosion and, consequently, occasionally very substantial losses of products it contains also the operations of filling, repeated numerous times over the years, causing in time the contamination of the underlying soil. Therefore, in the current legal framework on underground tanks have gradually outlined standard procedures - varies from region to region - which indicate the activities to be undertaken for the installation, management, maintenance and, finally, disposal.

Airportstudio has significant experience in the installation, operation, maintenance and decommissioning of underground and not underground tanks.

SERVICES OFFERED

Airportstudio makes available its specialists to provide a qualify assistance in:

• preliminary analysis of customer needs with direct inspection
• preliminary technical \ economic feasibility studies of interventio
• ensure the verification of the status of the tanks (field test inspections)
• organize and oversee maintenance operations, rehabilitation and neutralization
• prepare technical \ administrative documentation for approval of remediation, removal and disposal of tanks interventions
• assistance and field test supervision, remediation, removal and disposa
• design of site rehabilitation
• relations with the relevant government organizations

TO WHOM ARE DIRECTED OUR SERVICES

Our services are aimed to customers who need to:

• verify the integrity of the underground park tanks
• perform maintenance, remediation, neutralization, removal and disposal of existing tanks

MAIN ITALIAN STANDARDS AND THECNICAL REFERENCES

• Legislative Decree n.152 /2006 and subsequent amendments - Consolidated Environmental
• Legislative Decree n.81/08 amended - Consolidated Law on health and safety at work
• Decree 29 November 2002 - Technical requirements for the construction, installation and operation of underground tanks for the storage of liquid fuels for transport, at the service stations
• Presidential Decree n. 177/11 - Regulations for the qualification of firms and self-employed working in areas suspected of pollution or neighbors, in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 8, letter g) of Legislative Decree 9 April 2008, n. 8
• DM Environment n. 31/15 - Regulations on simplified criteria for the characterization, safety and remediation of the service stations
• Underground Tanks Guidelines - Arpa Lombardia (first ed. 2004 - agg. 15.03.2013)
• DGR Veneto n. 4433/99
• DGR Veneto n. 1562/04
• DGR Veneto n. 3964/04
• Local hygiene regulations
• UNICHIM Standard 195 (ed. 2000)

The term "contaminated site" refers to all those areas where, as a result of human activities, past or ongoing, it was detected alteration of the qualitative characteristics of environmental media - soil, subsoil and groundwater - that represent a risk to human health.

National legislation relating to rehabilitation of contaminated sites, introduced by DM 471/99, has been profoundly changed by the Legislative Decree no. 152/06 and subsequent amendments "Environmental regulations" that, to Part IV, Title V "Reclamation of Contaminated Sites", regulates the remediation and environmental restoration of contaminated sites, and defines the procedures, criteria and procedures for the conduct of operations necessary for the 'elimination of sources of pollution and in any case to reduce concentrations of pollutants, in harmony with the principles and rules of Community, with particular reference to the "polluter pays".

Recent amendments to the Italian Criminal Code, obtained with the introduction of an autonomous "Title VI - OF CRIMES AGAINST THE ENVIRONMENT", resulted in a higher punishment - a doubling of the statute of limitations - for the crimes committed against the environment, including:

• environmental pollution
• death or injury as a result of the crime of environmental pollution
• environmental disaster
• Traffic and abandonment of highly radioactive material
• impediment of environmental control and safety and hygiene
• omitted clean

Airportstudio has significant experience in the following areas:

• search and preliminary study on contaminated sites from abandonment or recovery of waste
• search and preliminary study on sites contaminated by accidental events (fire, spills, etc.)
• search for the best s rehabilitation solutions of sites, even in environments contaminated with asbestos or radioactive dust
• research and development at European level of rehabilitation of contaminated steel radioactive dust

SERVICES OFFERED

Airportstudio makes available its specialists to provide a qualify assistance in:

• preliminary analysis of customer needs with direct
• preliminary surveys to the implementation of emergency response for safety
• studies and research for the decontamination
• make withdrawals and sampling of materials
• technical \ economic preliminary feasibility studies of interventions
• design of rehabilitation (characterization, rehabilitation and risk analysis)
• prepare technical \ administrative documentation for permission to work
• organize, test, manage and oversee the operations of preparation and reclamation sites
• care for and maintain relationships with the relevant government organizations also in service conferences

TO WHOM ARE DIRECTED OUR SERVICES

Our services are aimed to:

• detect the abandonment of waste in land owned
• are aware of the presence of pollutants that contaminate its goods or workplaces
• must schedule the execution of environmental rehabilitation also post incidental

MAIN ITALIAN STANDARDS REFERENCES

• Legislative Decree n.152 / 2006 and subsequent amendments - Consolidated Environmental
• Legislative Decree n.81 / 08 amended - Consolidated Law on health and safety at work
• Industry regulations

The National Register of Environmental Managers collects data on companies authorized to operate in the field of waste management. Registration (consisting of the National Committee, the Regional Branches and provincial) takes place following the selection, qualification and preliminary check of the legal requirements of businesses and organizations that want to operate in this industry.

SERVICES OFFERED

Airportstudio makes available its specialists to provide assistance in:

• assist the employer in preparing the whole dossier in the Register of Environmental Managers
  
• maintain relations with the Public Administration
• perform technical expertise on transportation of waste
• assume the position of Technical Manager 
• assist the employer in preparing the whole dossier in the Register of Environmental Managers

TO WHOM ARE DIRECTED OUR SERVICES

Our services are aimed at businesses and institutions that, according to their activities and the types of waste managed, must be enrolled, or already are, identified in the bulletin board - article 212 paragraph 5 - of the legislative decree of 3 April 2006 n. 152 (and subsequent amendments):: 

• companies engaged in the collection and transport of waste
• companies performing rehabilitation sites
• businesses engaged in rehabilitation of goods containing asbestos
• businesses engaged in trading and intermediation of waste without holding the waste

MAIN ITALIAN STANDARDS REFERENCES

• Legislative decree n.152 / 2006 and subsequent amendments - Consolidated on Environmental
• Legislative Decree n.81 / 08 amended - Consolidated Law on health and safety at work
• Other industry standards
  

   

Amiantus alumini similis nihil igni deperdit; hic veneficiis resistit omnibus, privatim magorum.

(Asbestos, like alum, is not consumed by fire; it is resistant to all witchcraft, especially those of the magicians.) - Pliny, Naturalis Historia 36, 139 first century D.C.

Asbestos - dangerous and virtually indestructible, it is still present in our daily life: roofs of buildings, plastering, floor tiles, planters, railings terraces, fireplaces stoves and fireplaces, vent pipes baths, gutters and downspouts, pipes of aqueducts and sewers, cladding heating pipes, water tanks in the attic, old fabrics, trimmings and old boilers heating, etc.

Under the current rules each property owner that has found in its buildings the presence of materials containing asbestos (MCA) is obliged to:

• check the features
• notify the area responsible ASL authority
• perform risk assessment (for residents and workers)
• give accurate information to the occupants of the buildings (residents or employees)
• assess the state of degradation, especially for the materials exposed to the weather (like shell)
• appoint a person responsible for all activities on m.c.a. (asbestos containing materials)
• keep appropriate documentation identifying the characteristics and location of m.c.a. (asbestos containing materials)
• plan maintenance operations for cleaning up, giving notice to the competent authorities (Municipality, ASL, ARPA, etc.)

SERVICES OFFERED

Airportstudio has gained twenty years of experience in this industry, in both civil and naval inspections on the spot and analysis of suspicious materials, environmental sampling, design, organization, testing and site supervision of construction sites for remediation. The study makes available its own specialists for:

checks on the presence of asbestos containing materials (MCA)

• asbestos risk assessment in residential and working areas
• asbestos manager role
• assessment of the state of degradation m.c.a. (asbestos containing materials)according to the Veneto Region and the Region of Lombardy procedures
• m.c.a. (asbestos containing materials) withdrawals with special techniques
• environmental sampling of gaseous substances
• laboratory analysis (SEM and PCOM) and reporting
• certification of returnable environments reclaimed
• study of the most appropriate interventions to the situation in progress
• cost / benefit evaluation of interventions
• design and project management of the interventions
• relations with the Public Administration

TO WHOM ARE DIRECTED OUR SERVICES

Our services are aimed at companies, property owners, the building managers and all those who:

• they suspect that there are no materials containing asbestos (MCA)
• they want to assess whether the roofs are made of asbestos or other materials
• they revealed the presence of shells or other materials containing asbestos in the home and in the neighborhood
• they must carry out a risk assessment of asbestos
• they must appoint a manager for asbestos
• they have to plan or carry out operations in areas with presence of materials containing asbestos (MCA)
• they received orders with mandatory assessments or intervention of materials containing asbestos (MCA) by municipalities, ASL, ARPAV, etc.

MAIN ITALIAN STANDARDS REFERENCES

• DM 6/09/94
• Lae n.257/92
• Legislative Decree n.81/08 amended - Consolidated Law on health and safety at work
• Veneto Regional Council Resolution n. 265/11
• Lombardy Health Care Directorate decree n.13237/2008