The name Bosco Verticale means vertical forest, referring to a design by the Boeri Studio as part of the Porta Nuova Project of the developer Hines Italia SGR. An international jury from the Museum of Frankfurt gave it the 2014 International Highrise Award as the world’s most beautiful and innovative tower block. We worked on the hotel inside the building to improve the fire-reaction of the wooden structures. To be precise, nearly 4,000m2 of wooden strips were treated for which a special test was carried out using the SBI Method at the Istituto Giordano in Bellaria.