Tunnel Ventilation System Design

Tunnel safety management is a key goal for owners, autorithies, users. Through a Life Safety approach that passes through numerical calculations, comparative analyses, risk analyses, it is possible to minimize costs and maximaze the safety.
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Support for architect's work

Cantene is the partner of the main architect’s firms in Italy for what concerns the Fire Engineering. Through the performance based approach, Cantene supports architects in the identification of the best solution in terms of mechanical ventilation and means of egress.
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Railway stations

Cantene developed the Fire Engineering studies of the main high velocity railway stations in Italy.
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Pedestrian Flows

The evaluation of pedestrian flows is fundamental for big atriums, stadiums and arenas. Cantene is partner of GAE Engineering and of MES architects for the study of the means of egress at Roma FC stadium.
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Pedestrian Flows

Advanced movement simulation combined with high-quality 3-D animated results, gives you reliable answers quickly. Through pedestrian analyses it is possible to identify bottlenecks and ways not used. In this way, it is possible
to optimize the means of egress.
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Cantene was founded in 2007 by 5 professors of the Energy Department at Torino Politecnico and two engineering companies based in Torino and specialized in the design of mechanical and electrical equipments for infrastructure and tertiary sites.

Cantene is specialized in the use of numerical codes in the field of Fire Engineering and, more in general, of the Thermal Science applied to ventilation and energy plants.

Cantene is the distributor of Thunderhead Engineering solutions for the Italian market: Pyrosim and Pathfinder.

  • Tunnel Ventilation System Design
  • 1D Analyses
  • CFD Analyses
  • Smoke Control – Pollutants dilution
  • Pedestrian Flows
  • Risk Analysis
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Our Last WorksSee All

Gronda di Genova
Genova – Italy

Cantene developed the project with Ferro Ingegneria, Amberg, Luca Stantero for Spea Engineering (ITALY).

Unipol Tower
Milan – Italy

Cantene developed the project with
Gae Engineering (Torino) for MCA Architects (ITALY).

New Rome AS Stadium
Rome – Italy

Cantene developed the project with
Gae Engineering (Torino) for MES Architects (USA).

Ivrea Carnival
Ivrea – Italy

Cantene by pedestrian analysis supports the safety plan optimization with
Gae Engineering (Torino) for Storico Carnevale di Ivrea (Italy).

TestimonialsWhat Our Clients Say
I had the pleasure of working with Cantene on the design of several projects of logistic warehouses for the largest Internet retailer in the world.
In order to satisfy the Tenant requirements Cantene developed fire simulations for “alternative solutions” to verify compliance with the levels of safety required by the standards:
- maximum surface of comparments
- lenght of the exit pathways
- heat anc smoke control.
Cantene makes efforts to ensure that Italian Fire safety standards are strictly followed.
Emiliano Cena EPS group
I had the pleasure of working with Cantene on the design and execution of the Safety Plan for Venice Carnival 2018: their contribution was fundamental to develop a new and efficient concept of public protection, based on precise scientific results and applied to a very specific and complex scenario such as Piazza San Marco, in the heart of the Historic Center of the island.
Nicola Catullo Vela Spa
I’ve known Cantene in several projects of tunnel ventilation design: Gronda di Genova, Visnove tunnel. Cantene specialists are very clever and skilled technicians able to use modern tools for fluid dynamic simulations: 1D and 3D codes
Marco Bettellini AMBERG
I've known Cantene during the Cityringen (Copenaghen, Denmark) preliminary design and we developed both mono-dimensional and three-dimensional analysis for stations and tunnel stretches. Later we worked together to face a very challenge station design: probably the most important iconic station of Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) metro system, named Downtown. Now we are in contact with the tunnel Cantene's specialist to verify the solution adopted for the tunnels ventilation system along the the highway from Tehran towards Caspian see (Iran).
Massimiliano Capaci MEP Manager at Cityringen project
A team of Clever, Responsive and Professional engineers. Our collaboration with Cantene is a story of success, spanning from the design of complex tunnel ventilation systems to cutting edge research technology and projects.
Gabriele Vigne JVVA Fire & Risk
Our ClientsCompanies that have chosen us