Fabrizio de Miranda

Fabrizio de Miranda (30 October 1926 – 21 January 2015) was an Italian bridges and structural engineer and university professor.

He planned the first motorway viaducts with steel structure (Coretta, Macinaie, Poggio Palina) on the Autostrada del Sole in Italy (1959).

From 1965 until 1996, he was professor of "Tecnica delle costruzioni" (structural engineering) at Politecnico di Milano.

In 1968, he founded a Consulting Engineering Firm specializing in the design of Bridges and Structures.

During more than fifty years of professional activity, he designed hundreds of structures and bridges.

Zarate-Brazo Largo Bridge over the Paranà Guazù and Paranà de las Palmas Rivers in Argentina . They are the two first road and railway long span cable-stayed steel bridges in the world. Spans: 110 m + 330m + 110 m. (1969–1976)
Indiano Bridge across the Arno river near Florence ( Italy ) (1972-1978). It is the first earth-anchored cable-stayed steel bridge in the world. Span: 206 m
Rande Bridge near Vigo in Spain (1973-1977). It is the highway cable stayed bridge with the longest and slenderest span in the world at the time of construction. Three long spans of 148 m + 400m + 148 m.