EX MACEL 

Milan, via Lombroso/viale Molise. Work in progress at the abandoned industrial area of the former slaughterhouse in Milan.
This is about 15 hectares in the south-east quadrant of the city of Milan, which is now the subject of a large-scale urban regeneration and overall redevelopment project promoted by Redo SGR.

Armofer has already set up the site and begun the work that the client has entrusted to it: clearing, stripout, demolition of artefacts, removal of underground utilities and networks, environmental liability remediation, excavation, removal of underground tanks, earthmoving, and finally, the inert in situ treatment campaign. The subject of the works is the more than 150,000 square metres of the area. The area includes the former municipal slaughterhouse, the former poultry and meat market, about 48 buildings above ground.
The buildings, structures and artefacts on the site are now in a state of neglect and advanced degradation and have been subject to squatting.

MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023

From 17 to 23 April, on the occasion of the 2023 edition of Milan Design Week, Stantec, a leading company in architectural and engineering design and consultancy, presented an installation within the evocative spaces of the former slaughterhouse, to reflect on the themes of valorising the resources present in disused industrial sites, the intellectual, material and economic capital of the city. The space was chosen by Alcova for its fifth edition, with the title: 'A valuable collection of things'.
The installation open to the public from 17 to 23 April, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. is realised with the support of Artemide for the lighting of the space and the technical support of Giacimenti Urbani, a Milanese association promoting the circular economy; in collaboration with Redo SGR and Armofer.

Armofer is involved in this project, for the demolition, reclamation and excavation works: a complex job due to the huge size of the space, highly specialised and conducted today with sophisticated technologies to meet the demands of high quality standards in full respect of the environment. The current project works towards the highest LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) quality standards
Site managers for Armofer were Andrea D'Isep, technical coordinator, and geom. Luca Gandelli, site manager.

LAND RECLAMATION

In the vast area of the former slaughterhouse, extensive soil remediation work was carried out to make the soil quality suitable for the new uses. Due to the previous use, combined with many years of neglect during which the area was also used as an illegal dumping ground for materials, and finally due to the war, tests conducted revealed several critical issues. The presence of hazardous materials made it necessary to widen the excavations (which covered the entire open area, right up to the edge of the buildings), to work in depth sifting the soil and meticulously removing unsuitable soil. War clearance was also necessary, as it was documented that the area had been bombed during the Second World War.

BUILDING DEMOLITION

Within the area there were several buildings that had been abandoned for years. The new project recovers a substantial part of them, about 30,000 square metres, which will be redeveloped and reintegrated into the new ambitious urban regeneration project. From a technical point of view, the planned building demolitions are complex, if not because of the heights, certainly because of the vastness of the area and the punctuality of the individual interventions, but also because of two other factors: the enormous size of some of the warehouses and buildings of the former slaughterhouse and their structural condition in some cases degraded to the point of being decreed unsafe and therefore not accessible to personnel for safety reasons. Demolition of the buildings is currently underway using tracked demolition excavators (Doosan) and top-down technology.

CRUSHING CAMPAIGN

In the case of the former Slaughterhouse site, the volumes are extremely large, which is why Armofer has initiated a crushing and screening campaign organised in situ with special dedicated machines: the materials are 'regenerated', i.e. crushed, classified by grain size in order to obtain so-called MPS, Secondary Raw Materials of certified quality. All this takes place in close cooperation with the control authorities, which monitor the operations, perform accurate analyses and, if necessary, remove materials that are unsuitable for future use. The MPS can be reused in future construction work, thus avoiding the need to transport tonnes of material to the city and then dispose of it. The positive effects for the environment, the city and the site itself are obvious.
In the field for this activity is a new technology from Armofer, the Powerscreen Premiertrack 330 self-propelled crusher, capable of ensuring high production and high quality.