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Keeping Venice Afloat
February 4, 2009
•Case Study: Keeping Venice Afloat
By Bentley Systems, Inc.
The city known as La Serenissima is in danger of slowly disappearing under the serene waves of the lagoon upon which it was built twelve hundred years ago. To help keep Venice afloat and restore the fragile ecosystem of the surrounding Venice Lagoon, CREA, on behalf of Consorzio Venezia Nuova, is using complex mathematical models that work within MicroStation.
Slowly but inevitably, Venice is sinking. Because of the city's monumental architectural, historic, and cultural importance, as well as other environmental factors endangering the city and surrounding lagoon, the Consorzio Venezia Nuova of the Venice Water Authority (Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia) has developed plans for safeguarding the Venice Lagoon based on input from outside firms such as the engineering firm CREA Srl (Center for Research for Environmental Ecology). The firm's extensive research—conducted using complex MicroStation-based mathematical models—is playing a significant role in several of the preventive measures the Venice Water Authority is undertaking to save Venice from sinking and to halt degradation of the lagoon's ecosystem.
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