(Alliance News) - Webuild Spa has announced that it has submitted a pro bono project, with its U.S. subsidiary Lane, for the reconstruction of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, which collapsed last March causing the loss of numerous lives and severing a vital link between the city's port and the Atlantic Ocean.

The group explained in a note that it has offered a proposal to the relevant authorities for the design and planning of the bridge reconstruction.

The preliminary proposal was developed in collaboration with architect Carlo Ratti, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and French structural engineer Michel Virlogeux. The Webuild proposal for Baltimore includes a cable-stayed bridge that also aims to improve several functional aspects, including safety, adaptability and sustainability.

"As Webuild, with our U.S. subsidiary Lane, we are ready to make ourselves available, for the rapid rehabilitation of this strategic bridge for the mobility of the area," Webuild CEO Pietro Salini commented in a letter sent to the U.S. Secretary of State for Transportation, the Governor of Maryland and the Director of the Maryland Port Administration.

By Claudia Cavaliere, Alliance News reporter

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