Andrea Angheben

Today, customers who intend to turn to C.I.P.T. Italporphry can enjoy the guarantee of certain, quality supplies. But at the same time, thanks to the director Andrea Angheben, he will be able to avail himself at any time of technical and design assistance as well as consultancy services, including specific and detailed ones, that no other company in the porphyry sector is able to offer. From an analysis of her resume below are the opportunities, in various capacities and depending on the circumstances, also for the C.I.P.T. client:

• The new volume PORFIDO technical guide to a noble stone (2023) written by four hands by Angheben and Geologist Grazia Signori, and which is in addition to the two volumes "Porphyry Laying - Rules and Practical Advice" and Schede Tecniche Porfido del Trentino, published by E.S.PO., is the logical conclusion of a working life entirely dedicated with passion to porphyry and its peculiarities. In addition to constituting a theoretical compendium for the training of the porphyry installer, the texts prove to be indispensable, easy and useful reference, especially for designers and sector technicians who are increasingly involved in the management of construction details.
• The teaching in the main practical and theoretical courses for First Level Layers, Expert Porphyry Layers, Master Craftsmen Layers, at the Autonomous Province of Trento, but also at the main Italian Building Schools, can be extended to any part of Italy, Europe and the world (as for example in the case of the Solaris Carlton 2006 - Argyle Square Melbourne project), with the customized elaboration of specific training modules, designed and built according to the needs of the principals or the professional level of the recipients (basic level, intermediate level, professional level).
• As a Member of the CEN/TC246 Natural Stones Table at Uni standardization body, for the updating and revision of the European standards on stone materials UNI EN 1341, 1342, 1343, 12058, as well as for the drafting and related updating of UNI 11322 and UNI 11714-1:2018, Stone Floor Coverings - Instructions for Design, Installation and Maintenance, it will always be possible to provide designers, as well as all intermediaries, Construction Managers and Principals, with any extracts from the standards, clarifications, and in-depth studies on the subject, developed with full expertise, and above all in real time.
• The theoretical application seminars on the transformation and use of Trentino porphyry for paving and walls, interior and exterior, held at very important universities and technological high schools (Milan Polytechnic University, RMIT University Melbourne, University of Udine, University of Florence, UNITN Faculty of Engineering, University of Ljubljana, etc.), in themselves ascertain the great recognition of Angheben's and now C.I.P.T. staff's expertise.
• As a Litigation Technical Consultant (CTP), porphyry and stone sector, Andrea Angheben has always proved to be an indispensable figure in interpreting, arguing and dissecting general and detailed design and/or executive issues related to stone works.
• As a promoter on behalf of E.S.Po. in the years 2005 -2013 of the Horizontal Architecture Awards (in collaboration with the Department of Architecture, University of Ferrara), Andrea Angheben played a leading role in the judging committees.
• The ongoing collaboration with Mapei, and in particular with those responsible for the Mapestone System, has led to the presentation of numerous technical and illustrative seminars in which the performance qualities of Trentino porphyry Italporphyry have been combined with the Mapestone System, both in terms of the TFB60 allurement and the PFS2 cementitious sealant, as well as, of course, the Mapestone Joint polyurethane resin
• Having served as a Site Supervisor for quality and installation procedures at 60 Italian/Europe/Arabian/Australian paving sites, with audits extended to European stone standards, British Standards BS, DIN, etc., Angheben is the ideal figure to be involved both in the field and especially when defining design specifications and basic requirements.
• Involved as Reviser items Pricing List Autonomous Province of Trento section stones, road paving works and building works, and as a consultant for the updating of the Pricing List of building and plant works of the C.C.I.A.A. of Trento, the construction of items of specifications for even complex works but aligned with administrative directives, is not an obstacle.
• As director of the historical museum Casa Porfido, Albiano (Tn) until 2013, he is himself a deep connoisseur of local tradition.