Volta Room will host a round table covering the issue of subsoil planning, increasingly important and strategic for utility network development. An introductory speech will be given by a town planner expert in PUGSS (General Town Plan of Underground Services). This will be followed by a debate between institutions, members of the finance world and researchers regarding this new town planning tool. A representative of the Lombardy Region (the first Italian region to introduce the PUGSS) will also take part

Architect, committed in the use of GIS in the development of an organic plan for the rational use of the subsoil (General Town Plan of Underground Services), as part of the overall town planning scheme. Strongly motivated in the use of GIS technology as an information system that processes geographic data to support and manage territorial planning and design, construction, management and maintenance of utility networks. Education: October 2003 Development Course in Urban planning and sustainable development: analysis, planning, management of the city and the territory - Research Centre of Urban Planning, Alberto Calza Bini 'Federico II University', Naples. Author's research paper: 'I Piani Urbani Generali dei Sottoservizi nel Sottosuolo' (General Town Plans of Underground Services). June 1996 Degree (Laurea) in Architecture - University 'Federico II', Naples. Thesis title: 'Parco Urbano nella periferia orientale di Salerno: il parco del Mercatello' (Project based upon the concept of a City Park in the western area of Salerno: Mercatello Park). Final rating: 108/110 (A2) Professional Service: December 2005 - Present Member of the Italian Water and Energy Federation (Federutility). Personal and Professional Development: June 2002 Professional Study Course dealing with Emergency Planning for national and regional grid water services - CAP, Milan Mario Schettini page 1 of 2 June 2001 Professional Study Course for upper management personnel concerned with the direction and maintenance of Southern Italian water plants and services - ASIS Salerno Dicember 1999 Formative Professional Study Course - 'Optimum Syst?mes d'Information' - relative to Geographic Information Systems in the field of water distribution with Net & GIS applications, Paris. Professional Experience: July 1998 - Present GIS Coordinator, GIS Analyst, Cartography Head Office, - Salerno Sistemi S.p.A. water dstribution, Salerno. July 1997 - September 1997 Internship - Tony Weber Architect Associates, Philadelfia (USA). August 1996 - June 1997 Intership - 'Five Architects Associates', Salerno. Publication: 2005 Schettini, M., Planning the urban subsoil: The General Town Plans of Underground Services. Materiali INU Series, vol.11, pp. 190. Graffiti Publishing. 2005 Schettini, M., GIS application in the city of Salerno water system. Cartografhica, vol.12, pp. 17-20. MondoGIS Publishing. 1997 Editorial contributions to 'Progetto' - architectural review of the Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Salerno (Italian Architects Association). Papers Presented at Conference: 2006 GIS application for the city of Salerno water system management: from personal to enterprise geodatabase. Presented at the 9th Italian ESRI Conference, Rome. 2005 LITUZI, a project for the localization of water utilities and abusive clients in the industrial area of the city of Salerno. Presented at the 1th national conference for the General Town Plans of Underground Services, Salerno. 2005 The General Town Plans of Underground Services in coherence with the means of urban development end the city plan. Presented at the 25th Annual Conference of the Italian National Urban Planning Institute, Rome