Project of refurbishment of the GILDA beamline at the ESRF

This document presents the refurbishment project for GILDA, the Italian CRG beamline at the ESRF. After a short introduction to the beamline and its achievements in the last years, the base ideas and concepts driving the design are exposed whereas a more detailed technical description of the new instrument is given in a further section. An analysis of the costs and a schedule for the implementation of the program is also presented in the last part of the document.