The work presented in this contribution forms part of the BREBEMI project,in reaction to a major motorway construction development linking the towns of Brescia,Bergamo and Milan in northern Italy for a total length of about 120 km.For the first time in Italy a set of non-invasive procedures was used systematically in order to reduce archaeological risk in advance of motorway construction.This innovative project relied on the methodical collection of information from historical and geographical documentary sources,along with geomorphological analysis,the examination of existing vertical air photography,the collection of new data through targeted aerial survey and oblique air photography,the acquisition of LiDAR data along the whole of the motorway route (160 kmsq at a resolution of 4 hits per sqm) and the systematic collection for very substantial areas of geophysical data,both magnetic (AMP) and geoelectrical (ARP) – a total,of 438 hectares of AMP and ARP data (mesh 0,5x0.5 m and 0.5x0.08 m).Test excavations were planned and carried out systematically to verify anomalies and the Superintendency for the Region of Lombardy also initiated random trenching for a total of 5% of the surveyed area.A GIS platform for the project was designed to manage and integrate all of the data at every stage of development (from data acquisition in the field to interpretation and field checking) as well as to demonstrate overall patterns and to create predictive models.The objectives of the project were to reduce as far possible uncertainty about the presence of archaeological remains along the route and in particular to identify areas which ought to be protected from destruction because of the presence of either upstanding or buried archaeological remains.