Air Tech Italy recently spoke to Tecno Engineering 2C (TE2C), an engineering firm that has gained a key position as a designer and a consultant in the field of aviation for the last 30 years. It has been a member since the start. High time to find out more.
Air Tech Italy: Welcome Mr Criscuolo, can you introduce yourself, your role, your company and explain us what your company does?
Certainly, I am Carlo Criscuolo, CEO and Technical Director of Tecno Engineering 2C (TE2C). TE2C is an engineering company that – since 1989 – has been mainly involved in airport engineering, airside and landside, as well as in flight procedures for departures, arrivals and landings for airports and heliports. TE2C has worked in over 77 airports in Italy and more than 40 outside of Italy, both civil and military airports.
Air Tech Italy: Can you explain us what exactly TE2C can bring to airports? For what services do airports use your company and how do you differentiate from your competitors?
Carlo Criscuolo: TE2C offers integrated engineering services, from planning to design, from management to works supervision as well as consultancy for both the civil, plant engineering and technological aspects, both for the landside and the airside, for passenger and cargo terminals, control towers, hangars, fuel depots, barracks, but also for runways, taxiways, aprons, AGL systems, meteorological stations, radio assistance and flight procedures for airports.
The uniqueness of the services offered by TE2C is the multidisciplinary nature and integration of both civil and systems engineering and simulation systems, thanks to the important knowledge of our specialists, many of whom are civil or military pilots with thousands of flight hours of experience with short, medium and long-range aircrafts flying to airports all over the world.
Air Tech Italy: What trends do you see in the services requested by airports? How are requests changing and how does this impact your offering?
Carlo Criscuolo: The objectives that our clients are increasingly giving us are related to reduced land consumption, de-carbonization, energy independence, resilience and in general to reduce the environmental impact in terms of noise and air pollution, as well as the ability to interconnect with other transportation systems,
but also digitalization and the possibility of generating economic systems that that are self-sustaining and independent, enhancing not only the territory but also the entire air transportation supply chain. In summary, TE2C offers its broad experience in intermodality and sustainability.
Air Tech Italy: Are there any recent projects can you illustrate?
Carlo Criscuolo: In terms of designing and planning, we are now working on the West wing of the passenger terminal at Bari airport, after having designed and built in recent years both the East wing and the extension of the runway for up to 3000 meters. Similarly, at Lamezia Terme airport, after having designed the extension of the runway for up to 3000 meters, we supervised the works for the expansion of the passenger terminal. At Trieste airport, on the airside, we are designing the redevelopment and the expansion of the aprons, while for Verona and Treviso – airports we have recently completed – we managed the projects for the new Fire Brigade barracks.
In the Reggio Calabria airport we are directing the works for the redevelopment and expansion of the passenger terminal, the reconstruction of the AGL systems for both the runways with the renovation of the very special luminous approach path in the curve before the standard final part of 900 meters in length.
In Salerno we are directing the works for the new general aviation terminal, for the Fire Brigade barracks and for the ramp equipment depot. At Aosta airport we are directing the works of the new passenger terminal, designed together with the architect Gae Aulenti.
Finally, we are also working in Romania and especially in Bosnia, where we are designing new instrumental flight procedures, both conventional and through satellite, at the four international airports, namely Sarajevo, Tuzla, Banja Luka and Mostar.
Air Tech Italy: That’s very impressive, many thanks for your time and the interesting overview Mr Criscuolo.
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