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Carlo Semenza (Milan, 9 July 1893 - Venice, 30 October 1961) was an Italian engineer, remembered as the designer of the Vajont dam.

Index

1 Biography

2 Mass culture

2.1 Filmography

2.2 Comics

Biography

Carlo Semenza, after having participated in the First World War, as a Genie volunteer, on 11 August 1919 he obtained a degree in Hydraulic Engineering from the University of Padua. In the same month, he presented himself, at the Vittorio Veneto office of the Società Adriatica di Elettricità, for the design and construction of the hydroelectric plants "Piave-S.Croce" Lago di Santa Croce # cite ref-7 with a letter of presentation of the Professor of Hydraulic Construction, Prof. Conti.

At the end of the construction of the aforementioned plants SADE entrusted him, with office in Venice, full responsibility for the design and construction of the new plants that the company was building in the Triveneto. [1]

These installations and large dams include those of Fedaia, Corlo, La Stua, Senaiga, Val Gallina, Schenèr, Valle di Cadore, Sauris and the Vajont dam.

In 1925 he was a founding member (and probably the first president) of the Italian Alpine Club section of Vittorio Veneto.

Contributed to the development of the realization in 1951 of the ISMES (Institute of Experimental Models and Structures) of Bergamo, in order to be able to realize models of dynamic dams, helping to solve problems for the planned and construction dams, national and foreign.

In 1955, with the company ELC Electroconsult, founded in Milan on April 20, 1955 with the aim of providing specialist consulting services on hydraulic, geothermal, electrical and civil engineering projects, a subsidiary of SADE, he collaborated in the construction of the Kurobe dam, the highest in Japan.

On February 28, 1959 he was awarded the "honoris causa" degree at the Milan Polytechnic.

On Sunday morning of October 29, 1961 he had a cerebral hemorrhage in his home, shortly after returning from Mass in his parish of S. Maria al Lido (Venice). He remained in a coma less than 24 hours and died the next day. At SADE his role was held by the engineer Alberico Biadene, his deputy.

On 3 November 1962, SADE dedicated the Vajont dam to the engineer.

The Council of the Italian Alpine Club, two weeks after his death, on November 13, 1961, in an extraordinary session decided to build a shelter or a bivouac in his memory. On the Venetian Prealps in 1963, near Forcella Lastè, a group of the Col Nudo-Cavallo, the Semenza Refuge was inaugurated in the Municipality of Tambre (BL). [2]

The municipality of Tambre d'Alpago in the locality at "O" has named it a street.

Mass Culture

Filmography

In the 2001 film Vajont, directed by director Renzo Martinelli, he was played by Michel Serrault.

Comics

Francesco Niccoli and Duccio Boscoli, Vajont - History of a dam, Yellow Beak