Born in Naples in 1980, the enterprise carries on its work, since its foundation, exclusively in the sector of the conservation and of the restoration of archaeological heritage and historical and monumental buildings especially at the service of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Environmental Conservation and its dependencies.

The RECO Inc. work is essentially subdivided in two activities: the first one is aimed at the conservation and restoration, the second one focuses on the use of technological systems.

In particular, as regards the first activity, the company has specialised in all that concern particular workings destined to the recovery, to the conservation, to the consolidation, to the transformation, to the restoration, to the reorganization, to the ordinary and extraordinary maintenance of the personal and state property of historical, artistic and archaeological interest subject to protection according the normativeness in matter of cultural and environmental properties.

In the field of this first activity, particular relief have had the interventions realised by the RECO Inc. on the recovery works of the coverings and the velaria and the works of restoration of the natural light system from the top floor of the Capodimonte Museum of Naples ; the works of preservative restoration of the former novitiate area, the gothic zone and the prior’s rooms, the office and direction area and the crib zone in the monumental complex of the San Martino monastery in Naples ; the works of preservative restoration for the Royal Palace (Palazzo Reale) of Naples, the Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta), San Lorenzo di Padula Charterhouse (Salerno), the Imperial Villas in Capri (Naples), the Triboletti Museum and the Archaeological Park “Villa Adriana” in Tivoli (Rome), the Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Salerno), the Archaeological Park of Capri (Naples), the Diocesan Museum of Salerno, the Naples’ Great State Archive, the Church of Sant’Agnese in Agone in Piazza Navona (Rome), the SS. Nome di Maria Church at the Trajan’s Forum in Rome, Vidoni Palace (Palazzo Vidoni) in Rome, the Opera Theatre in Rome, the former Rossarol barracks of Taranto, the former Convent of the Augustinians of Lecce, the former Ronchi Hospital of Bologna.

Besides, as regards the second activity, the enterprise has improved in the carrying out, in the maintenance or the reorganization, and in the management of a co-ordinated whole of technological installations applied to cultural and environmental properties, as: heating systems, ventilation and climate conditioning systems, plumbing-sanitary systems, gas installations, detection and fire-fighting systems, pneumatic systems, anti-theft and anti-intrusion systems, lifting systems, electrical and lighting systems, telephone, radiotelephonic, televisional system, data and similar net transmission system.

In relation to this second activity, they have provoked a remarkable interest for the technologies that have been used, for the swiftness of intervention and for the size of volumes dealt with the works completed in the Park of the Royal Palace of Caserta (Parco della Reggia di Caserta), consisted in the lifting and recycling, with predisposition of electric energy production, of the waters destined to feed the Vanvitellian Fall (Cascata Vanvitelliana); the carrying out of the airconditioning system for the Expositive Halls of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome in event of the exhibition of Van Gogh’s works; the realization of the climate conditioning, detection and fire-fighting systems for the Passeggiata Coperta in San Lorenzo in Padula Charterhouse (Salerno); the realization of technological systems at the service of the Capodimonte Museum in Naples; the reorganization of the setting up, the restoration and the realization of the lighting and passive and active safety systems for the Cuciniello Crib (Presepe del Cuciniello); the realization of the electrical and lighting system completed in the Royal Palace of Caserta (Reggia di Caserta) and in the Royal Palace of Naples (Palazzo Reale di Napoli) in event of G7 Finance Ministers’ and Governors’ Meetings in Naples; the realization of the electrical and conditioning systems and the restoration of the water-feeding plant for the movement of the stage bridges at the service of the Opera Theatre of Rome to mark the Tosca 100th anniversary; the realization of electrical, lighting and conditioning system for the Basilica Inferiore of the Madonna Sanctuary in Loreto.

All these successes are based on the adoption of advanced technologies, on the utilization of specific and adequate equipment and machinery and on the collaborations of specialised workers and technical qualified specialists.

This great luggage of experiences, accumulated during the long activity of enterprise, helped to reinforce at all the company levels that particular sensitiveness and those specific competences indispensable when an intervention of monumental restoration is faced. Thanks to these presuppositions, today the RECO Inc. is put on the market like the innovative enterprise able to face and to solve the complex problem tied to an intervention of conservative restoration with optimal solutions, supported by a variety of skills, from the earliest steps of restoration, and by interdisciplinary and specialised inputs at all levels, in agreement with fundamental principles of the scientific-historical theory of conservation of built historical properties.