The Firm
Unrivaled Excellence in Engineering Consulting: An International Excellence Since 2007
Structured as a top-tier engineering boutique powered by elite multidisciplinary expertise, Studio Ferrando assists major industrial groups, General Contractors, and public entities in solving their most extreme challenges. Through uncompromising advisory, we hold an absolute top-tier market position for authority, technical rigor, and problem-solving capability.
Combining a robust systemic vision with unassailable technical expertise, we deploy a comprehensive portfolio of specializations across civil, environmental, and industrial fields. This deep cross-disciplinary mastery allows us to command 360-degree project complexity: from advanced Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) and BIM digital transition to energy sustainability and the mitigation of complex environmental impacts, such as acoustic and electromagnetic phenomena.
The core of our operational methodology—and the true differential underpinning our international prestige—lies in a highly quantitative approach historically forged in the qualification of complex systems for the Defense, Aerospace, and Transportation sectors. Leveraging advanced simulation models and Class 1 certified instrumentation, we operate in strict compliance with the most stringent international standards, including MIL, NATO, and DO-178 regulations.
In this manner, we translate our elite expertise into every infrastructural and civil assignment, infusing the utmost scientific rigor and the stringent quality control standards typical of critical systems engineering, thereby delivering absolute and unassailable project value to our clients.
Executive Manager
Alessandro Ferrando, born in Savona, is an Electronic Engineer (master’s degree, pre-reform system) holding an Executive MBA, combining an international strategic vision with uncompromising technical expertise. At the helm of Studio Ferrando, he has established the firm on the market as an absolute top-tier engineering boutique. The excellence of his profile and the unassailable quality of his solutions are reflected in a deliberate, bold market positioning: commanding the highest hourly consulting rates in Italy. This is not a mere pricing policy, but the exact reflection of the engineering value delivered—an elite filter reserved exclusively for clients who demand the mathematical certainty of results and an absolute intolerance for downward compromises.
Supporting major industrial groups, General Contractors, and public entities, he delivers advisory capable of mastering the most complex design challenges. His profile unites an unparalleled portfolio of specialized qualifications (Competent Acoustician, Fire Safety Professional, Energy Certifier, HSE/Construction Site Consultant, and BIM Manager) with advanced competencies in Systems Engineering and RAMS analyses. This exceptional cross-disciplinary mastery allows him to govern design across the board: from advanced Fire Safety Engineering (FSE) and BIM digital transition to energy sustainability and the mitigation of complex environmental impacts (acoustic and electromagnetic).
The true differential legitimizing this exclusive prestige lies in a strongly quantitative approach, historically forged in the qualification of complex systems for the Defense, Aerospace, and Transportation sectors (in strict compliance with MIL, NATO, and DO-178 standards). Thanks to this imprinting, Alessandro Ferrando guarantees the utmost scientific rigor and the stringent quality control standards typical of critical systems engineering in every civil and infrastructural assignment.
This operational authority is bulletproofed by deep scientific research conducted in synergy with leading university departments. His studies—focused on the development of numerical models for electromagnetism (solving inverse scattering via Green’s dyadic and the Method of Moments) and advanced acoustics (phased-array beamforming theory applied to aeronautical detection)—have culminated in publications in prestigious international journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America and IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.
This robust background, fusing academic excellence, military methodologies, and managerial acumen, represents the pillar upon which the firm’s entire value proposition rests: transferring state-of-the-art engineering to the service of industrial commissions, granting clients a technical superiority that justifies, in every single minute of work, the most exclusive hourly investment in the national market.
Scientific Publications
The scientific rigor characterizing our operational methodology is evidenced by continuous international research, culminating in publications in journals and forums of absolute prestige. Our contributions trace a clear technological evolution: from the development of complex numerical approaches for applied electromagnetics to the most extreme current frontiers of advanced acoustics and autonomous systems.
In the field of electromagnetism, our studies focused on the application of the Method of Moments for scattering computation and the prediction of energy deposition within biological tissues and dielectric cylinders, with disclosures in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation and Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics. In acoustics, starting from The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America—where we presented 3D simulations for aircraft detection via passive phased arrays—our modern R&D pioneers true breakthrough innovation. Our most recent research pushes toward the stochastic optimization of microphone arrays for acoustic imaging of UAV propulsion systems and the design of simulated hardware architectures (via FPGA and SPICE) for shape-shifting acoustic arrays:
In preparation – A. Ferrando and A. Di Marco, “Simulated Hardware Architecture for Shape-Shifting Acoustic Arrays: Thermal and Latency Optimization via FPGA and SPICE Modeling”
2026 – A. Ferrando and A. Di Marco, “High-Performance Stochastic Optimization of Phased Microphone Arrays for Acoustic Imaging of UAV Propulsion Systems”, Forum Acusticum 2026, Graz, Austria, September 8-12.
2005 – I. Roselli, P. Testa, G. Caronna, A. Barbagelata, and A. Ferrando, “Outdoor Sound Propagation Effects on Aircraft Detection through Passive Phased‐Array Acoustic Antennas: 3D Numerical Simulations”, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, September. DOI: 10.1121/1.4785708
1997 – S. Caorsi, A. Ferrando, G. L. Gragnani, and M. Pastorino, “A Moment-Method-Based Approach to Electromagnetic Scattering Computation by a Perturbation Technique”, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, January. DOI: 10.1109/8.633866
1994 – S. Caorsi, A. Ferrando, G. L. Gragnani, and M. Pastorino, “A Moment Method-Based Approach to Electric Field Computation Inside Inhomogeneous Infinite Dielectric Cylinders Irradiated by TM Incident Fields and Partially Different from Standard Models”, Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics, vol. 35, December.
1993 – S. Caorsi, A. Ferrando, G. L. Gragnani, and M. Pastorino, “A Numerical Approach Based on the Moment Method for Prediction of Electromagnetic Energy Deposition in Living Tissues”, Poster presentation, 2nd Congress of The European Bioelectromagnetics Association (EBEA), Bled, Slovenia.
This profound and uninterrupted dedication to academic research and advanced mathematical modeling forms the cornerstone of our advisory approach. It enables us to transfer—without compromise—the most cutting-edge technologies and computational methodologies directly into our clients’ industrial and strategic projects, guaranteeing operational and safety standards unattainable by conventional engineering.
