Agenzia Regionale Strategica per lo Sviluppo Ecosostenibile del Territorio (ASSET)

Agenzia Regionale Strategica per lo Sviluppo Ecosostenibile del Territorio (ASSET)

ASSET is the Regional Strategic Agency for the Ecosustainable Development of the Territory. From January 2018 it replaces the Arem (Regional Agency for Mobility of the Puglia Region) by expanding its functions. It is an operational technical body supporting the Region for the definition and management of policies for mobility, urban quality, public works, ecology and landscape, for the prevention and protection of the territory and of hydrogeological and seismic risk. ASSET is therefore the new regional agency dedicated, as public engineering, to strategic planning, integrated programming, design and implementation of public works.

ASSET's duties:

• sustainable mobility of passengers (infrastructural improvement of Regional and Local Public Transport) and goods (elaboration of the Regional Plan of Goods and Logistics)
• public Works
• housing policies (urban regeneration, territorial redevelopment, recovery and reuse of existing buildings)
• reorganization of health buildings
• monitoring and governance of regional road safety
• landscape protection
• enhancement of cultural and environmental heritage
• alternative energy production and reduction of energy consumption
• prevention and protection of the territory from hydrogeological and seismic risks in support of civil protection, regional authorities, local authorities and concessionaires of public works (prevention and protection of the regional territory through orthophotographic surveys, computerized mapping of geological and geothematic maps, analysis of plans settlements and guidelines for sustainable planning, diagnostics and anti-seismic structural analysis of buildings, assessment of the vulnerability of the building heritage and historic centers, restoration and protection of historical and monumental heritage)
• strategic planning of investments in the area of eco-sustainable development of the territory
• strategic research and development projects in the areas of institutional competence of the Agency.