25 May 2020
Fagioli’s Big Operations in the Venice Lagoon
Topics: Bocca di Lido Treporti, Fagioli, flood protection, Gantry Launching System, Italy, Mo.s.e., project, Venetian Lagoon, Venice
↓↑ Photographs and Featured Title photograph courtesy of MOSE
This is the Mo.s.e., project intended to protect the city of Venice, Italy, and the Venetian Lagoon from flooding.
photograph : Fagioli
On this particular leg of the whole project, Fagioli has been the inventor, the designer, the builder and final user of the CV.02.EVO.C Gantry Launching System for the removal of the barrier gates for maintenance activity at the Bocca di Lido Treporti in Venice.
photograph : Fagioli
Activities involved:
- positioning of the Gantry Launching system onto the cement caisson where the barriers are located.
- lifting of the barrier out of the water and its positioning onto a barge.
- sea transport in Venice lagoon; unloading and land transport operations with SPMT straight into the maintenance area.
photograph : Fagioli
The dimensions of each barrier are 20m x 20m x 6m with a weight of 250t.
photograph : Fagioli
photograph : Fagioli
photograph : Fagioli
