Nomen omen, the Latins used to say. Italferr, the engineering arm of the FS Group, has been transformed, abandoning the old brand and becoming Fs Engineering with the ambition, however, as the new brand suggests, to go beyond the railway perimeter and expand into the civil works market. “The name change is not a simple rebranding but the reinforcement of a strategy that is already underway,” explains CEO Dario Lo Bosco to Sole24Ore.
Engineer, how does the company’s move away from the strictly railway dimension aim to make it a generalist engineering player?
In recent years we have steered the entire FS Infrastructure Business Unit towards digital, high-tech and smart coordination, with artificial intelligence applications and advanced Bim systems. We have developed platforms that go all the way to 7D, integrating not only time and cost into the digital project but also safety and management right from the feasibility phase. Alongside our activities with Rfi and major European projects such as Turin-Lyon, we also work on road networks, interports, energy and complex infrastructures.
With this operation, which markets are you targeting?
Strengthen Italia first and consolidate the countries where we are already present. We are about 3,400 people and have offices in 15 foreign countries. In India, for example, about 200 local professionals work with us: we want to take root in the territories, not limit ourselves to episodic interventions. We operate in Central Asia, Canada, Australia and the Middle East, where we contributed to the driverless metro in Riyadh.
