Alessandro Mazzi and the MOSE: engineering the mobile barriers of Venice
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The MOSE is an infrastructure in which civil works, heavy steel fabrication and pneumatic plant must behave as a single…
Major Projects
Gran Manglar viaduct, Colombia: building from above, from piles to deck
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The Gran Manglar viaduct, on the Cartagena–Barranquilla road corridor in Colombia, crosses the Ciénaga de la Virgen, a mangrove lagoon…
Genoa sub-port tunnel: two bored tubes beneath the harbor
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The Genoa sub-port tunnel is a road link that crosses beneath the basin of the old port, between the San…
Suez Canal: the geometry of a sea-level canal
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The Suez Canal links Port Said on the Mediterranean with Suez on the Red Sea across the isthmus of the…
Panama Canal: the new locks, water-saving basins and Italian rolling gates
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The Panama Canal crosses the isthmus for about 82 km between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Unlike Suez, it is…
The rescue of the Philae temples: 40,000 blocks rebuilt on Agilkia
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
For more than sixty years the sanctuary of Isis at Philae was a half-submerged monument, visited by boat among columns…
Ocean Cay: from sand-mining island to cruise destination
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
Ocean Cay is a man-made island in the Bahamas, about 30 km south of Bimini and roughly 100 km from…
Øresund Link: bridge, artificial island and immersed tunnel between Denmark and Sweden
Alessandro Mazzi
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The Øresund Link between Copenhagen and Malmö, opened on 1 July 2000, is often described simply as a bridge. In…
MOSE, Venice: gates, caissons and plant of the mobile barrier
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The MOSE system protects the Venice Lagoon from exceptional high tides with four barriers of mobile gates installed at the…
Brăila Bridge: cable spinning and deck lifting over the Danube
Alessandro Mazzi
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The Brăila Bridge crosses the Danube in eastern Romania with a main span of 1,120 m, the third longest suspension…
Lake Mead Intake No. 3: tunnelling under 15 bar beneath a reservoir
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The third intake of Lake Mead connects the bottom of the reservoir to an underground conveyance system that supplies most…
Miami, SW 1st Street bascule bridge: foundations and movable structure
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
The replacement of the SW 1st Street bridge over the Miami River kept the double-leaf bascule scheme while integrating new…
Cityringen, Copenhagen: EPB tunnels and stations beneath a historic city
Alessandro Mazzi
Major Projects
Cityringen is a driverless metro ring beneath the center of Copenhagen, made of two parallel tunnels and seventeen underground stations.…
