ECD is a dynamic company capable of providing designing and consultancy expertise in the engineering field.ECD's activity started in 1993 as an academic spin off involved in a wide project financed by Italian National Research Council (CNR) in co-operation with the University of Pavia.ECD has participated and is participating in a large number of R&D projects, mainly with different industrial national and international partners, such as ABB, Pirelli, Dupont USA, Tesar, AEM Milan, ENEL, Cesi, Cadafe Venezuela.ECD's peculiar characteristic of is the use of highly skilled consultants, keeping its own essential structure, with the purpose of combining flexibility and quality in order to meet our customer's needs promptly.ECD employs now about 10 people and his performance growth during last three years has been about 100% per year.ECD is founding partner of the project LPQI (www.lpqi.org) now jointed by 66 participants from 11 countries.LPQI has been supported by the European Commission and now it has been selected as one of the first best 30 Leonardo projects.