Interview with Marco Borgato, Management Department of AcegasApsAmga Water Padua
2020 was a year focused on the need for resilience and skilfully-managed changes. This was put into practice by 13 colleagues of AcegasApsAmga who offered their own skills during the summer to colleagues in one of the Group’s companies, ASE, which found itself dealing with an unexpected increase in workload due to the Covid health crisis.
This willing team included Marco Borgato, who transferred to Udine for two weeks to take part.
Marco, what do you do in AcegasApsAmga?
For about 4 years now, I’ve been working in the Water Department in Padua, where I deal with the electrical side of water systems like pumps, transformers, cathodic protection. Often, people have no idea how much electricity is involved in the water system.
A multifaceted skill set, then: with the Covid crisis, were you asked to collaborate with ASE?
With the end of lockdown, ASE experienced an unexpected increase in workload in a very short space of time, such as the maintenance of electrical systems in schools which needed to be ready quickly for the high school leaving exams. So I was asked to join a team of colleagues in Udine for a few weeks.
What did you do during your time in ASE?
ASE manages electrical systems in many public buildings in Udine. So, I was able to put my electro-technical skills into practice in various types of systems, such as checking the circuit breakers in a school.
Would you recommend this experience to your colleagues if the need were to arise again?
Absolutely, yes! It allowed me to meet colleagues from other locations that I would not have met otherwise. There was an instant positive work atmosphere and we became a close team really quickly, all of us trusting each other.