Rational Use of Underground Space
the Project

Politecnico di Torino plans to support a pilot example of the Underground Laboratory, which will aim to be a place where it will be able to compare experiences and project activities (in progress or already completed at different institutional levels) related to the rational management of the underground space. The mail goal of the project is to build, in Piemonte, a relationship among various actors having different skills, experiences, and organizational cultures, in order to facilitate the integration and the dissemination of contents and good methodologies, through an informative network which will allow a continuous updating of knowledge and solutions.

The Underground Project involves the participation of two laboratories (LAME and LARTU) of the Politecnico di Torino, of two public institutions (Regione Lombardia and Regione Piemonte), and of a private operator (EGEA group).

The first initiatives have been meetings with the Ufficio Sottosuolo of Regione Lombardia and analyses on Lombard regulations on underground planning.

Furthermore, the Underground Laboratory Project and the PUGGS (Urban Plans for the Management of Underground Services) of Regione Lombardia have been presented to Regione Piemonte.

A local energy operator declared itself interested in testing the project in the area of Alba and in cooperating with LAME and LARTU laboratories for the management of a web portal on Underground Space, to be activated at the Politecnico di Torino.