Milan: resilient cities - liveable cities. GBC Italia outlines new urban governance

On Thursday 19 June 2025, in the beautiful setting of the Fonderia Napoleonica Eugenia di Milano, a public meeting was held entitled “Urban strategy, energy and infrastructures for climate”, promoted by GBC Italia – Green Building Council Italia, an organisation that has promoted a culture of environmental sustainability and the wellbeing of people in the building and construction sector for years.

This event, evocatively entitled Resilient cities, liveable cities”, provided an opportunity for real, strategic discussion between institutions, companies, professionals, and citizens, at the heart of the national debate on ecological transition and building of new urban governance models, able to meet the challenges of climate change, the energy crisis, and infrastructural transformation.

On the stage, along with Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala, A2A President Roberto Tasca, and GBC Italia President Fabrizio Capaccioli, was (Gruppo FS) Italferr’s Chief Executive Officer Dario Lo Bosco.

Over the morning, core questions such as decarbonisation, regeneration of building heritage, refurbishing of urban spaces, the adoption of resilient infrastructures, and collaboration between the public and private sectors were discussed as the foundational pillars for building more sustainable, inclusive, and liveable cities. An integrated, multidisciplinary, and systemic approach was put forward by all the speakers as an essential condition for tackling the complexity of the current historical phase.

“When talking about resilient cities, energy and sustainability, one can no longer overlook an integrated logic of which infrastructures are the most representative example. Here seen as potential connections between physical, material, and intangible worlds, which we now have the moral obligation to govern with the care and vision of those who are aiming at the end of the cycle, starting from the beginning. Our strength lies in the strategic and process leverage that engineering gives us" said Dario Lo Bosco, who went on to stress, "I have the honour of leading the Country’s largest engineering company, which is also one of the world’s leaders in terms of digital engineering. Today the evidence lies in the hand of whoever governs and structures data correctly from the outset, and we do this”.

The meeting also gave a preview of the content that will form the centre of the upcoming Green Building Forum Italia, scheduled for October 2025. This nationwide event will bring together the leading players in the building, construction and urban sustainability sector, in order to define a new paradigm for living.

An innovative, involving urban agenda based on collaboration, transparency, and systemic vision. Because resilient, liveable cities do not just happen: they are designed, agreed on, and built.