Proger approves its 2025 Sustainability Report: ESG performance and financial results confirm solid growth 

Growth that reduces direct impact while widening the positive impact of the projects delivered: this is the trajectory that emerges from Proger’s 2025 Sustainability Report, approved by the Board of Directors. The document portrays a year defined, on the social front, by a growing workforce and a marked reduction in staff turnover, driven by initiatives designed to strengthen wellbeing, sense of belonging, retention and competitiveness. On the environmental front, by a fall in per-capita energy and water consumption through more efficient use of resources and policies to cut consumption and emissions. And on governance, by the highest score in the Legality Rating, the expression of a company model built on integrity, responsibility, risk control, supply chain management, transparency and integrated sustainability.

Proger’s sustainability path, which over five years has earned the company an ESG Rating of AA from Cerved Rating Agency, unfolds against a backdrop of economic growth, confirming that sustainability and financial results are not competing goals but complementary dimensions of a single journey. In 2025 Proger posted a net profit of 15.4 million euros, up 8% on the previous year, confirming the financial solidity that underpins the Company’s investment and development. “The goal remains to turn complexity into value, bringing together economic, human, relational and environmental capital. It is on this integration that the quality of a modern enterprise is measured, and it is on this integration that Proger will keep building,” commented CFO Roberto Lombardi.

The document sets out a vision of sustainability closely integrated into the company’s business model. The information reported reflects an approach in which every project is conceived with an eye to the value it can generate, not only for the business, but also for territories, communities and the environment. “To design is to take on a responsibility that is not only technical. It is social too. Environmental too. Cultural too,” says Claudia Raiola, Head of Sustainability & ESG Compliance at Proger. “The infrastructure we design will accompany entire generations, the hospitals will contribute to the quality of life of thousands of people. The challenge is to deserve the trust of the communities our work will affect.“

From this approach come the four strategic directions the Company has identified: sustainable engineering, people development, ethics and responsible supply chain, digitalisation and cybersecurity, seen as essential levers to support sustainable growth and strengthen competitiveness. “Every company leaves a footprint. The difference is not whether to leave one. The difference is choosing which,” Raiola concludes.

Proger’s Voices within the Editorial Project

The 2025 Report stands out for a renewed editorial approach that reflects Proger’s many-sided character and its engagement with the world of art and culture: the cover and illustrations were entrusted to the young artist Anna Crespi, and each chapter is enriched by contributions signed by the Company’s leading figures, whose established professional experience brings the editorials a broader and more thoughtful perspective.

The ESG Areas

On the environmental front, the Company recorded a 5.1% reduction in total energy consumption (equal to minus 17% per capita) and a 3.5% reduction in total water withdrawals, despite the increase in staff and operational offices. Alongside these results comes the significant contribution of the projects Proger develops, from the remediation of industrial sites to the design of major infrastructure increasingly oriented towards resilience, protection of the land and adaptation to climate change. It is a theme explored by Deputy Chairman Chicco Testa in his editorial: “Many people worry about the problems we face and will have to face, but few have the tools and the ability to turn good intentions into positive action.“

On the social front, the Company grew its workforce by 14% and recorded zero workplace injuries for the fifth year running, results that stem from a wider project, as Carla Mason, Chief of Corporate Functions and HR Director, explains: “The initiatives we have undertaken are all aimed at improving the working experience at Proger, from the attraction stage through the whole professional journey of our people within the company.” Staff turnover also fell from 25% to 19%, and women accounted for 41% of the workforce increase over 2024-2025, confirming the path of valuing diversity and inclusion that Board Member Patrizia Ravaioli reads in these terms: “Diversity is not only an ethical value. It is a competitive factor.”

On governance, which for Deputy Chairman Antonio Mastrapasqua “is no longer just a matter for lawyers or auditors: it is a strategic lever of credibility towards the market,” Proger achieved the highest level of the Legality Rating awarded by the Italian Competition and Market Authority (Three Stars). The result also stems from its adherence to the ethical principles shared by the sector’s main industry associations and from newly obtained certifications, reflecting the progressive strengthening of the company’s governance system.

2025 was also the year Proger launched its new Art & Culture Business Unit, chaired by Francesco Rutelli, who frames its strategic scope: “Proger’s challenges in the fields of Art and Culture belong to the finest Italian tradition, and they propose a Soft Power approach in the New World.“

Taken as a whole, the document portrays a Company that Chairman Umberto Sgambati describes as “a platform stable and strong enough to sail the rough seas of engineering and management, yet at the same time reactive and dynamic: an ideal base for launch pads dedicated to new projects, new sectors, new markets.”

It is within this idea of “dynamic solidity” that the Report places the results achieved: a Sustainability able to go beyond merely reducing impacts and to take on the responsibility of reading the future, anticipating its signals and turning them into design choices. A principle that finds full expression in the Letter to Stakeholders by CEO Marco Lombardi: “Adapting does not mean surrendering. It means learning to live while everything changes, to live in harmony by reading the signals the New World sends us. Against this backdrop, we chose to interpret Engineering from a new perspective: Monitor to Predict, Predict to Prevent is a principle that captures our vision of the New Engineering and stands as a responsibility towards people, territories and future generations.”