Italy bridge designer warned in 1979 of risk of corrosion
(WorldNews Italy)

ROME (AP) - The Italian engineer who designed the Genoa bridge that collapsed and killed dozens warned four decades ago that it would require constant maintenance to remove rust given the effects of corrosion from sea air and pollution on the concrete. RAI state television broadcast excerpts Sunday of the report that the late engineer Riccardo Morandi penned in 1979, 12 years after the bridge bearing his name was inaugurated in Genoa. The Associated Press downloaded the from an engineering news portal. At the time of writing, Morandi said there was already a `well-known...