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Airport operating company S.E.A.

Milan Linate and Milan Malpensa airports

EPC Contracting

Customer Airport operating company S.E.A.

Where Milan

Solution EPC Contracting

Sector Artistic and Museum History

        
          CEFLA has carried out numerous projects for Milan's airports, providing specialist expertise, professionalism, experience and an efficient and flexible organisation capable of meeting every technical and operational requirement.

Strengths

Specialised expertise in plant engineering to meet all technical and operational requirements

Framework agreements that streamline bureaucratic procedures and enable work to begin quickly

Efficient and flexible operational structure to handle all phases of interventions

Key Numbers

More than

500

buildings

More than

40 millions

people per year

670.000 t

of goods

beyond

150 interventions

carried out by Cefla

Background

Malpensa and Linate are among the busiest airports in Italy in terms of passenger traffic (in 2024: a total of almost 40 million people per year, with an annual increase of more than 10%) and freight (in 2023: over 670,000 tonnes in total).
Both are undergoing modification, upgrading and expansion projects, often carried out simultaneously.

        
          The work was carried out in accordance with the guidelines set by the municipal administration and the technicians of the various bodies involved.

Challenges

Interventions of varying scale, type and complexity
From the installation of new technological systems (electrical substations, cooling plants, etc.) to the upgrading of networks and terminals serving public and commercial spaces.
Service continuity
All work is coordinated with SEA technicians to avoid interruptions to operations and minimise disruption to passengers and airport staff.
Safety
CEFLA staff are required to comply with air transport safety procedures, especially when working in areas outside customs controls.

Project Tasks

2011, Malpensa: construction of mechanical systems for the completion of the new passenger terminal in Terminal 1
(known as the ‘Third/Third and Third Satellite’);
2014, Malpensa: upgrading of the technology centre and construction of refrigeration networks for the new
passenger terminal and cargo area;
2017, Linate and Malpensa: award of contract for executive design and extraordinary maintenance
work;
2022, Linate and Malpensa: framework agreement for executive design and extraordinary maintenance work;
2024, Linate: expansion of the passenger terminal to incorporate the adjacent Hangar 1 (for SEA Prime);
2024, Linate and Malpensa: multi-operator framework agreements for the executive design and implementation of extraordinary maintenance
(civil and general aviation infrastructure), using materials and techniques with reduced environmental impact;
2025, Linate and Malpensa: framework agreement for the upgrading of the electricity distribution networks.

Implementation

Most of the work consists of the new installation or extraordinary maintenance of electrical and special systems for power supply, lighting, communications, security (access control, surveillance, public address, fire detection, etc.) and integrated management of the building-systems system.

CEFLA also deals with mechanical systems, with the exception of water and sanitation.
The close collaboration between the CEFLA team and SEA's technical staff facilitates the search for the most effective and convenient solutions (also with a view to energy and environmental sustainability), the planning of interventions and the management of different construction sites (often open simultaneously in locations far apart from each other).