Street Maintenance
With Venice's local population and the addition of thousands of tourist a day traveling by foot on the calli of Venice, the street pavements can Deteriorate, be displaced, and in some cases suffer complete cracks. Paving Stones can also be displaced by constant Utility access. For these reasons constant maintenance is necessary in order to ensure that the historical importance of Venice's ancient Streets is sustained.[1]
Pavement Restoration
Pavement can be restored simply by removing damaged or sunken masegni. Since these large stones, like everything in Venice, have historical significance the existing Masegni are reused and not replaced unless its completely necessary. Insula has constructed an in depth procedure of the Process in order to maintain the Streets appearance. Some areas of the city are paved with porphyry, cement or asphalt. When these areas are restored, the materials are replaced with more appropriate materials that closely match the appearance of the rest of the Streets in Venice.[2]
Raising the Pavement
It is one of Insula's projects to raise the pavements of Venice to avoid further drastic flooding of the city. This plan is first concerned with raising the lowest areas of the city's pavement which flood most often. Ideally Insula plans to have raised all pavements to a consistent 120 cm above the zero tide level measurement. While raising the pavements is a top priority, maintaining the original appearance of the walls, entrance to homes, public spaces, and the walkways themselves is of greater importance. For this reason the existing usable Masegni stones are reused in the raising process. is an existing masegni stone is deemed unusable new stones are made out of quarried Trachyte stone.[3]
Maintenance Map
This map has all maintenance jobs Insula has completed, or is currently working. Included are the various pavement restorations.
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