Enzo Siviero

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Enzo Siviero
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Siviero in 2020.
Born (1945-01-19) 19 January 1945 (age 76)
Vigodarzere, Italy
NationalityItalian
Alma mater Università Iuav di Venezia
OccupationEngineer

Enzo Siviero (born 19 January 1945) is an Italian engineer, academic, writer. [1] and also architect, as he received an honoris causa academic degree in architecture from the Polytechnic of Bari in 2009 at the age of 64. [2]

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Biography

Enzo Siviero (left) in June 2021 in Messina on the occasion of the Conference on Infrastructures and Strait of Messina Bridge, the complaint: "South discriminated", in the company of the engineers Giovanni Mollica and Giuseppe Palamara. Enzo Siviero, Giovanni Mollica e Giuseppe Palamara.jpg
Enzo Siviero (left) in June 2021 in Messina on the occasion of the Conference on Infrastructures and Strait of Messina Bridge, the complaint: "South discriminated", in the company of the engineers Giovanni Mollica and Giuseppe Palamara.

In December 2016, at TUNeIT in Tunis he presented a 140 km bridge that would connect the Tunisian peninsula of Cape Bon (Africa) to Mazara del Vallo in Sicily (Europe). [4] He is the rector of the Università degli Studi eCampus in Padua. [1]

Strait of Messina Bridge

A section of the deck of the Messina Bridge. PonteMessina PolimiGdV.jpg
A section of the deck of the Messina Bridge.

Academic and engineer, Enzo Siviero is an expert of bridges. Always a supporter of the usefulness of the construction of the Strait of Messina Bridge, he has held several conferences and lectures in order to convince skeptics of the importance of this work. [5]

On 22 April 2021 participated with the CEO of Webuild, Pietro Salini, in Catania in a joint press conference with the President of the Sicilian Region Nello Musumeci and Calabria Region Antonino Spirlì, announced that he was ready to build the Strait of Messina Bridge, starting immediately with the works and on the basis of the executive project and construction site approved definitively in 2013. He declared that he already had the 4 billion euro coverage necessary for the construction of the Work and that he could obtain the other two necessary for the infrastructures connected to it from private financing. | [6] [7]

Books

Professor Enzo Sivier has written more than a dozen books, the most important hereinafter, most often dealing with the theme of bridges. [8]

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References

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  2. "Il Rettore - Prof. Enzo Siviero" (in Italian). uniecampus.it. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  3. "Convegno su Infrastrutture e Ponte sullo Stretto, la denuncia: "Sud discriminato"" (in Italian). gazzettadelsud.it. 4 June 2021. Retrieved 5 June 2021.
  4. "The Tunisia-Italy Bridge Across The Mediterranean" (PDF). larouchepub.com. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
  5. "Bridge over the Straits, Forza Italia pulls Draghi's jacket". italy24news.com. 14 April 2021. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  6. ""Il Ponte sullo Stretto? Ce lo facciamo da soli": il patto di Musumeci con Salini" (in Italian). lasicilia.it. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  7. "Ponte Stretto: Salini, è cantierabile, siamo pronti a farlo" (in Italian). ansa.it. 22 April 2021. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  8. "Libri di Enzo Siviero" (in Italian). unilibro.it. Retrieved 3 June 2021.