Alfacubo S.r.l.IT
A selection from over seven hundred assignments delivered in more than fifteen years, for funds, asset managers, energy operators and major industrial groups: from office real estate to energy parks, through to critical, regulated plants, in Italy and abroad.
The transformation of an entire single-tenant headquarters into a 77,000 sqm multi-tenant business park, carried out in successive phases with the building always in operation. One of the most significant value-enhancement projects in Rome's office stock, where every mechanical and architectural phase was calibrated so as not to halt the tenants' activity. Alfacubo followed the asset through its whole cycle, from feasibility to commissioning, governing time, cost and quality.
Unilever's Rome headquarters, a landmark building to be brought up to a multinational's standards: façades entirely rebuilt and systems redesigned across 25,000 sqm. A deep refurbishment in which the asset's image and continuity of use were part of the objective. The project restored value and prestige to a leading office building, with the integrated governance of design, site and safety.
The curtain wall of the Vodafone headquarters replaced in full while the tenant's staff kept working in the offices. Alfacubo followed the entire cycle, from feasibility to commissioning, with its own architectural design. An intervention that shows how to refurbish the envelope of an occupied office building without interrupting its life, improving performance and value.
HVAC and fire-safety refurbishment of a fully occupied office complex, carried out from feasibility through to commissioning. The works renewed the building systems and safety level of a 6,400 sqm institutional asset while keeping it operational throughout. A measured intervention, where continuity of service to tenants was the primary design constraint.
A landmark, listed Milan building, the former historic home of the press, refurbished in two phases: from the historic envelope — followed from feasibility to commissioning — to the overhaul of the HVAC systems. A delicate operation, in constant dialogue with the heritage authorities, that restored efficiency and function to a building of architectural value without compromising its identity. The measure of the work was the conservation of the asset.
A 1908 industrial building, a piece of Rome's industrial archaeology, turned into the headquarters of a communications multinational. The systems, left exposed, become part of the signature design within the historic envelope. A project that holds together the memory of the place and contemporary function, giving the Garbatella district a building brought back to life as a prestigious workplace.
After Rome, the client wanted Alfacubo in Brussels too: the systems design for the new Belgian headquarters, set within the 1902 former Royal depot at Tour & Taxis. A cross-border project, in a listed industrial-archaeology context, confirming the firm's ability to work on complex, constrained assets internationally, with continuity of method and client relationship.
A dismissed hotel of over four hundred rooms, an entire city block gone dark, brought back to value from the very outset: idea, financing with funds and tax incentives, architecture, systems and electrification from gas to electric with photovoltaics. Where the market saw a finished hotel, Alfacubo saw an investment and gave the owner the path to realise it. Five million in works over 36,000 sqm, in an energy-efficiency key.
Rome's first large clothing department store becomes one of the world's most prestigious fashion academies. The systems, far from a mere technical matter, are part of the architectural language of the project. A reuse project that gave new function to a building of urban memory, combining historic value, quality of space and contemporary performance.
A group's own-account investment, from land acquisition to sale: twenty-five residential units in Lazio built in XLAM structural timber. A project combining real estate development and sustainable construction, where Alfacubo oversaw the entire value chain — design, works supervision, safety and sales. Proof, on its own capital, of the method it brings to clients.
The EPC of the electrical heart of Sicily's first private Hydrogen Valley, in the Priolo petrochemical hub: a 2.538 MWp photovoltaic field and the substation powering 2 MW of electrolysers. A PNRR project now built and in production, among the first of its kind in Italy. Where for decades energy was only fossil, green hydrogen is now produced: a work that marks a real industrial shift.
Works supervision, safety coordination and testing of an 8.05 MWp utility-scale photovoltaic plant, as owner's engineer for an international independent producer. Thousands of modules, substations and a grid connection, from site handover to energisation. For the investor governing the site remotely, Alfacubo was the single point of contact: time, safety, quality and the relationship with authorities and the grid operator.
Ready-to-build optimisation of two photovoltaic plants for an international independent producer. An engineering effort that acts upstream of construction, where choices weigh most: improving yield, buildability and permitting robustness before the project becomes a built asset. It is the less visible but decisive craft that makes an energy investment truly feasible.
One of the last gas fields developed from scratch in Italy: design of the works, works supervision and safety coordination, with responsible direction towards the mining authority. A multi-year assignment on a critical, regulated plant, where third parties grant permits and oversee operations. A work that measures the firm's ability to govern the regulatory and technical complexity of the extractive industry.
Detailed design of the HVAC and Fire&Gas systems of the new power center at the Sonatrach refinery in Augusta: a critical building — switchrooms, battery room, control room — inside a fully operating plant. Every document was produced to the coding and issuing procedures of an international oil&gas major. A work that certifies Alfacubo's ability to operate to the standards of the most demanding clients.
Inside Milan Linate Airport, a new hangar: the systems and fire-safety design to Italian and ENAC regulations. A project in the aviation domain, where safety requirements and compliance with aviation authorities are an absolute constraint. An intervention that shows the extension of the firm's expertise to regulated infrastructure, beyond the perimeter of traditional real estate.
Augusta refinery photo: Azotoliquido / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.