Special Structures & Specialist Verifier
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Aigle Velodrome - World Cycling Centre
Aigle Velodrome - World Cycling Centre
Sector: Special Structures
Category: Space structures, tensegrities, cable networks, pneumatic structures
Client: International Cycling Union
Location: Aigle (CH)
Year: 2000-2002
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Design, conception of construction details, local construction and accounting management with final cost settlement, velodrome covering including steel ring composed of bipyramidal modules, cable network and pneumatic covering membrane
The Cloud of Yverdon
The Cloud of Yverdon
Sector: Special Structures
Category: Space structures, tensegrities, cable networks
Client: Expo.02
Location: Yverdon (CH)
Year: 2001-2002
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Structural design, local construction and accounting management with final cost settlement, design of construction details, steel structure exhibition platform consisting of bipyramidal modules, walkway gratings, suspended access and connection stairs, suspended technical room for fog system
Floating pontoon harbour of Maccagno
Floating pontoon harbour of Maccagno
Sector: Special structures
Category: Floating pontoons in prestressed reinforced concrete
Client: Municipality of Maccagno - Lombardy Region
Location: Maccagno (I)
Year: 2010-2011
Length: 120 m
Displacement: 1,100 tons
Services provided: Structural design, local works control, calculation of incident wave heights, hydrodynamic analyses, structural dimensioning of floating modules in reinforced concrete, external prestressing of the entire structure, mooring system with catenaries and anchor blocks
Floating pontoon harbour of Porto Valtravaglia
Floating pontoon harbour of Porto Valtravaglia
Sector: Special structures
Category: Floating pontoons in prestressed reinforced concrete
Client: Municipality of Porto Valtravaglia - Lombardy Region
Location: Porto Valtravaglia
Year: 2010-2011
Length: 120 m
Displacement: 1,100 tons
Services provided: Structural design, local works control, calculation of incident wave heights, hydrodynamic analyses, structural dimensioning of floating modules in reinforced concrete, external prestressing of the entire structure, mooring system with catenaries and anchor blocks
TMD Passerella Torretta in Bellinzona
TMD Passerella Torretta in Bellinzona
Sector: Special structures
Category: Tuned mass damper systems (TMD)
Client: Department of Territory of Canton Ticino
Location: Bellinzona (CH)
Year: 2021-2022
Services provided: Design and numerical verification of conformity of the tuned-mass damper system (TMD) to control the vibrations of the structure induced by pedestrians, running, air overpressure produced by the passing vehicles of the underlying N2 motorway
Tensile structure Villa Costanza Park Lugano
Tensile structure Park of Villa Costanza in Lugano
Sector: Special Structures
Category: Tensile structures
Client: City of Lugano
Location: Lugano (CH)
Year: 2022
Services provided: Structural design, construction and accounting management with final cost settlement, form finding, dimensioning and construction details of the tensile structure viale carpinata, foundation blocks of the tensile structure
Redevelopment of the Paradiso lake shore
Redevelopment of the Paradiso lake shore
Sector: Special Structures
Category: Lakeside structures
Client: Municipality of Paradiso
Location: Lugano-Paradiso (CH)
Year: 2016
Services provided: Parallel study mandate with selective pre-qualification procedure
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Advanced dynamics Alptransit Biasca railway bridge over the Froda river
Advanced dynamics railway bridge over the Froda river
Sector: Specialist
Category: Advanced dynamics vibration induced by railway traffic
Client: ALPTRANSIT Biasca
Location: Biasca (CH)
Year: 2007
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Numerical modelling and verification of vibrations induced on the structure by the trains of the Alptransit high-speed railway line
Stability computation for the Alptransit depot at Sigirino
Sigirino depot of the excavation material coming from the Ceneri base tunnel of the Alptransit railway line
Sector: Specialist
Category: Three-dimensional slope stability analyses and load-bearing body-induced settlements
Client: ALPTRANSIT Gotthard sector Gotthard South
Location: Sigirino (CH)
Year: 2002
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Three-dimensional numerical modelling of the stratigraphy of the soil and embankment, three-dimensional Mohr-Coulomb elasto-plastic analysis to determine the settlements of the adjacent railway line and the safety coefficients of the slope
CEP Pollegio Exercise Centre
CEP Pollegio Exercise Centre
Sector: Specialist
Category: Geotechnical analyses of static interaction
Client: Alptransit
Location: Pollego (CH)
Year: 2009-2010
Services provided: 3D numerical modeling of the structure + pile foundations + extended mesh foundation soil, linear static analyses with determination of settlements and stresses in the piles
Advanced dynamics Fieu railway underpass
Advanced dynamics Fieu railway underpass
Sector: Specialist
Sector: Advanced dynamics vibrations induced by railway traffic
Client: ALPTRANSIT Biasca
Location: Biasca (CH)
Year: 2008
Services provided: Numerical modelling and verification of vibrations induced on the structure by the trains of the Alptransit high-speed railway line
Advanced dynamics railway bridge over the Brenno river
Advanced dynamics railway bridge over the Brenno river
Sector: Specialist
Category: Advanced dynamics vibrations induced by railway traffic
Client: ALPTRANSIT Biasca
Location: Biasca (CH)
Year: 2007
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Numerical modelling and vibration control checks induced on the structure by the trains of the Alptransit high-speed railway line
Storage Facility of conditioned radiactive waste JRC Ispra - Heavy Type Stacking
CCR Ispra Conditioned Radioactive Waste Storage Facility - Heavy Type Stacking
Sector: Specialist
Category: Structural analysis of shocks and impacts
Client: Joint Research Centre - European Commission
Location: Ispra (I)
Year: 2010
Services provided: Analysis of the fork-lift impact against the stacks of the depot. Domino effect study
Storage Facility of conditioned radiactive waste JRC Ispra - Drum stacks
JRC Ispra Conditioned Radioactive Waste Storage Facility - Drum Stacks
Sector: Specialist
Category: Structural seismic analysis of shocks and impacts
Client: Joint Research Centre - European Commission
Location: Ispra (I)
Year: 2017
Services provided: Seismic stability verifications of metal drum stacks
Harbour of Gambarogno
Harbour of Gambarogno
Sector: Specialist
Category: Hydrodynamic calculation and dimensioning of floating structures
Client: Municipality of Gambarogno
Location: Gambarogno - Location San Nazzaro (CH)
Year: 2014-2016
Length: 340 m
Displacement: 3,300 tons
Services provided: In-water structures consultant, hydrodynamic analysis, structural pre-dimensioning of floating pontoon and swing-mooring arms system
Justice railway junction in Biasca Alptransit railway line
Justice railway junction in Biasca Alptransit railway line
Sector: Specialist
Category: Three-dimensional settlements analyses induced by loading bodies
Client: ALPTRANSIT Gotthard sector Gotthard South
Location: Biasca (CH)
Year: 2007
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Three-dimensional numerical modelling of the stratigraphy of the soil and the overlying infrastructures, to determine displacements and settlements caused by the temporary sequence of construction of the various loading bodies consisting of railway and road embankments
Cavanna avalanche protection embankment at Villa Bedretto
Cavanna avalanche protection embankment at Villa Bedretto
Sector: Specialist
Category: Three-dimensional slope stability analyses
Client: Forestry Section Department Canton Ticino
Location: Villa Bedretto (CH)
Year: 2002
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Three-dimensional numerical modelling of the embankment with geotextile reinforcement nets, three-dimensional Mohr-Coulomb elasto-plastic analysis for determination of settlements and slope safety coefficients
Deposit of excavation material in front of the Lugano belvedere
Deposit of excavation material in front of the Lugano belvedere
Sector: Specialist
Category: Three-dimensional analysis of load-bearing body-induced settlements
Client: Città di Lugano
Location: Lugano (CH)
Year: 2007
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Three-dimensional numerical modeling of the stratigraphy of the bottom of the lake in front of the Lugano belvedere and determination of displacements and settlements caused by the deposit of excavation material coming from the construction site of the New Cultural Centre of Lugano NCCL
New Cerbios Pharma plant in Barbengo
New Cerbios Pharma Plant in Barbengo
Sector: Specialist
Category: Three-dimensional analysis of load-bearing body-induced settlements
Client: Cerbios Pharma SA
Location: Barbengo (CH)
Year: 2003
Engineer: Dr. Antonio Paronesso formally at Passera & Pedretti SA
Services provided: Three-dimensional numerical modelling of the stratigraphy of the soil and of the overlying new buildings, to determine displacements and settlements caused by the time sequence of construction of the various buildings
