Engineering News-Record announced that the seismic assessment project of the Rondanini Pietà, Michelangelo's latest masterpiece, has won the "Global Best Project 2016". A highly prestigious award won for the third year by the engineering office Miyamoto International, who coordinated the whole project. The award is also a recognition of the work done by Kimia, which developed the anchoring system of the sculpture to the anti-seismic basement.

The famous Michelangelo's sculpture, dating back to the XVI century, from May 2nd 2015, at the opening of EXPO 2015, is back again visible to visitors from around the world inside a new location of the Palazzo Sforzesco in Milan. Infact, after 60 years spent in the Hall of the Scarlioni, it has been housed in one of the lovely rooms recently recovered from the ancient Spanish Hospital and placed, for the occasion, on an advanced basement able to make it immune from both eventual seismic actions and frequent vibrations generated by the visitors and by the passage of the underground trains nearby.

Kimitech FRP-LOCK^® is the mechanical locking system patented, tested and certified to be used together with a structural reinforcement with composite materials, in order to improve the performances of the system in its entirety.

Kimitech FRP-LOCK® action, indeed, by preventing the delamination of the fibers applied to the support, let the locking system be more efficient by best exploiting the resistances theoretically ensured by the composites.

That feature is particularly useful when the reinforcements are applied: