Together with Legambiente to support concrete activities on circular economy.
The relationship between Fassa Bortolo and Legambiente is a long-standing one, based on transparency: in a field like the building industry where it is often difficult to combine growth with environmental protection, we have always strived for a concrete expression of sustainability. This is why we have jointly promoted numerous projects and activities over the years.
Quarry Report
The Legambiente Quarry Report provides an objective snapshot of quarrying activities in Italy, with a special focus on the resulting economic and environmental impacts. The construction world today has the opportunity to move from a linear to a circular model, with the goal of focusing on recovery, recycling, and urban and land redevelopment.
With this document, Legambiente seeks on the one hand to shed light on the numbers and areas affected by activities that often have a devastating impact on the environment and landscape, and on the other to raise awareness in the construction world of virtuous management and possible innovations for Italy.
Fassa Bortolo was selected as one of the best practice examples for the management of quarrying activities.
Civico 5.0
Our well-established partnership with Legambiente led us in 2017 to enthusiastically support their national Civico 5.0 campaign, dedicated to the issues of living in a condo, or rather, living in a condo in a new way. An opportunity to emphasise the role of condo managers, builders and designers in rethinking increasingly sustainable solutions for new and, above all, existing buildings, and to make households the protagonists of this change.
The campaign is not only designed to be an incentive for the entire supply chain that revolves around the theme of condominiums and quality of life, but also to provide concrete tools for enhancing well-being at home and in condo buildings.
Civico 5.0 is dedicated to the themes of energy efficiency and the sharing economy and aims to promote a new way of living within condo communities, promoting interaction and exchange.
Training
Legambiente contributes to the workshops and seminars that Fassa Bortolo organises throughout Italy: a valuable asset to contextualise and emphasise issues such as the circular economy and energy efficiency. A two-way collaboration, which also involves the participation of Fassa Bortolo in Legambiente events, where we bring our concrete testimony for a more sustainable building industry.
Novantica
Fassa Bortolo’s Novantica line is a product of excellence in the building sector. Its formulation – in particular the absence of cement and the use of air lime and other pozzolanic materials – makes it possible to upgrade and enhance the existing building stock, with due regard for the chemical and physical balance of the original surfaces.
Following analyses carried out by the Department of Architecture of the University of Roma Tre, which measured the impact of our products both in terms of CO2 emissions and harmful substances such as VOCs, Novantica products can bear the official Legambiente mark.
Green transition sites
Fassa Bortolo has been selected by Legambiente to host three visits of the “I cantieri della transizione ecologica” (Green transition sites) campaign , a journey through the Italian peninsula to illustrate, at every destination, construction sites, projects and experiences that are moving in the right direction in terms of ecological and energy transition and that will bring important benefits to the environment, employment and the economy.
In November 2025, the Sala al Barro (LC) plant in Lombardy was featured in the campaign run by the Italian environmental association Legambiente. It is the third Fassa Bortolo plant selected by Legambiente because it was considered an example of attention to environmental and social aspects and a demonstration of how industrial activity can be integrated into the local area in which it operates. Before this plant, in 2024 the association had also surveyed and mapped on its campaign website the Calliano (AT) production site in Piedmont, where high-quality Gypsotech plasterboard is manufactured. The site relies on gypsum extraction from underground quarries – a solution designed to limit the effects on the landscape and the surrounding area – and on innovative processing methods geared towards the recovery and enhancement of resources.
In October 2023, the association also surveyed the Ceraino di Dolcè (VR) plant in Veneto, considered an example of circular economy principles in practice. Following a revamp of its plant, technology and management, the site is powered 100% by wood dust, thereby eliminating the use of fossil fuels in the plant’s fuel supply process.
“The virtuous example of Fassa Bortolo,” said Giorgio Zampetti, Director General of Legambiente, “shows that it is indeed possible to imagine a new building system that becomes an opportunity for urban regeneration, to improve energy efficiency and combat the climate crisis.”
