Milanosesto SpA entrusts Cimolai SpA with the construction of the new Sesto San Giovanni railway station designed by Renzo Piano Building Workshop with Ottavio Di Blasi & Partners. The infrastructural work will kick off the public works of MilanoSesto, the largest urban regeneration project in Italy and one of the main ones in Europe. With a total investment of 14,5 million euros, the new station will allow the conversion of the areas where the Falck steelworks once stood into a new urban destination.
In detail, the redevelopment of the entire area is promoted by Milanosesto SpA, by Hines, as strategic advisor of the entire project and development manager, and by the Prelios Group, which instead deals with all project management activities and, through Prelios Integra, of the coordination of safety and of the construction management of the station site.
The works will begin in July and will see the construction of a footbridge 89 meters long and 18 wide, suspended above the existing railway line, which will join the two parts of Sesto San Giovanni that have always been divided by the tracks, namely Piazza 1° Maggio and the former Falck areas. Furthermore, the station will be equipped with numerous services, including bars and shops, and will act as a panoramic observation point over the entire MilanoSesto project, in order to redesign the urban layout of the city of Sesto San Giovanni.
The new railway station will allow access to Piazza della Stazione, the real gateway to the entire project, and to Unione Zero, the first private development lot for which Hines also plays the role of investor. The important infrastructural work will serve the entire MilanoSesto area, including primarily the City of Health and Research, new health center of the Lombardy Region.
This pole will constitute one of the nerve centers of MilanoSesto, the development of which will help to give a significant boost not only to employment level and livability of the area, but will offer new services and a new mobility sectors, with a greater distribution of pedestrian traffic coming from the underground stop below, functioning as an interchange between the Milanese metro, the railway and the buses.
The construction of the new station will take at least 2 years, and particular attention will be paid to minimizing theenvironmental impact of the works, with respect to which Cimolai has studied a plan to contain the spread of dust which envisages the use of barriers and fences with anti-dust sheets, in addition to the "cannon fog" abatement system by nebulisation.
It is, therefore, an avant-garde structure from a technological point of view and the materials used, including above all iron and glass, it will also have a photovoltaic roof capable of supplying the entire station.
“25 years after the decommissioning of the former Falck area, today we are finally moving on to implementing our development plan. The new railway station will in fact be the first significant work of the future urban layout of MilanoSesto and, more generally, an extraordinary opportunity for Sesto San Giovanni which will see the two parts of the city separated by the railway reunited", he declared Giuseppe Bonomi, Chief Executive Officer of Milanosesto.
Luigi Cimolai, President of Cimolai SpA, he added that “the new Sesto San Giovanni railway station represents a new challenge for us in the context of major urban redevelopment projects which, especially in recent years, have seen us as protagonists in foreign contexts such as New York and London. We are therefore proud to be able to make our contribution in Italy and will deploy our best technical skills for this prestigious intervention".
