Fernando Lizzi
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Fernando Lizzi was born on January 2, 1914 in Castelnuovo di Porto, Italy near Rome. Dr. Lizzi started to work for the company SACIF in 1947, but shortly afterwards was the first (and for some time, the only) civil engineer of the newly-formed company, Fondedile, where he remained as Technical Director for nearly 50 years. During this time, Italy specifically, and Europe generally, were being reconstructed, and the first use of what later was named the pali radice (root piles, micropiles) technology was seen at the Scuola Angiulli in Naples. The first international application of micropiles was seen in Germany in 1952 for the underpinning of Krupp, in Essen-Bochum and then the Kerkini Dam in Greece. The technique was later applied in hundreds of works by Fondedile in various countries. Pali Radice have been used extensively in the restoration of monuments, notably Ponte Vecchio in Firenze in 1966. [1]
[edit] Bibliography
- de Restauro statico dei Monumenti (1981), The static restoration of monuments (1982)
- Il consolidamento del terreno e dei fabbricati (1989), Editor Dario Flaccovio
[edit] Notes
- ^ International Society for Micropiles. Retrieved on February 15, 2007.
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