Shortlisted – IABSE Awards 2025

We are proud to announce that Steel Project Engineering S.r.l. has been selected as a finalist for the prestigious IABSE Awards 2025 with the project “Renovation of Pavilions at Fiera Milano” in the Rehabilitation category.
(https://www.iabse.org/page-18585)

This important international recognition, promoted by the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering, celebrates engineering excellence and rewards projects that stand out for innovation, quality, and technical-social impact.

Our structural project has been judged as one of the most outstanding interventions of the year in the global structural engineering landscape, and we are particularly proud of the Jury’s motivation for the project’s nomination:

“On the occasion of the 2026 Winter Olympics, two large exhibition halls were transformed into a unified space suitable for international sporting events, through a bold structural intervention. The project removed 12 internal columns and introduced long-span steel portal trusses, creating an open volume of 35,000 m² without altering the original roof. Intelligent load-transfer mechanisms, high-precision monitoring, and careful phase planning enabled efficient and safe modernization. This is an extraordinary demonstration of adaptive reuse, engineering ingenuity, and architectural respect for existing structures.”

The award ceremony will be held on 14 November 2025 at Lake Side, on the shores of Lake Zurich, during a gala evening bringing together leading figures in the world of structural engineering.

This achievement reflects our team’s commitment to pursuing design excellence, sustainability, and construction quality. It is a major milestone we wish to share with our collaborators, partners, and clients. Special thanks to BIT and MBM for their trust, to Fondazione Fiera Milano and Studio Marzullo – general designer of the project and of the reinforcements on the existing structures – for their coordination and for the photographic material provided, and to Eng. Bruno Finzi, static tester of the work.

Many thanks to everyone who made this achievement possible!