Innovation as the key to sustainability in the construction sector and missed opportunities: presentation of the Quarrying Report 2025

Quarrying is a key sector for a country like Italy, because it involves important industrial sectors, such as construction, but also environmental aspects, land and landscape use and management. Establishing a sustainable connection between these two worlds, too often considered opposites, means addressing the needs of key sectors of the Italian economy, such as construction and infrastructure, sensitive issues such as environmental impact, and historical and cultural aspects related to the most renowned Made in Italy products worldwide.

A serious and decisive push towards the circular economy, still over-theorized and under-applied, cannot ignore the opportunities showed by materials recovery and recycling; just think of those countries where these processes are most advanced and how the extraction of quarry materials is being drastically reduced, while simultaneously boosting research and experimentation and, consequently, creating quality jobs.

Session Chairs

Gabriele Nanni, Legambiente

Program

14.00 Introduction by the Chairs (presentation of the Quarrying Report)

14.15 Speakers:
Lorenzo Bernardi, Fassa Bortolo
Edoardo Currà, AIPAI (Associazione Italiana per il Patrimonio Archeologico Industriale)
Paolo Barberi, Anpar (Associazione Nazionale Produttori Aggregati Riciclati)
Loretta Venturini, Iterchimica
Sergio Saporetti, Italian Ministry of Environment and Energy Security (TBC)

15.30 Closure by Stefano Ciafani, Presidente Legambiente Nazionale