Giovanni Lombardi, (born 28 May 1926 in

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; died 22 May 2017 in

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) was a Swiss engineer specialized in civil works and tunnel construction. Lombardi was educated at the

Institut auf dem Rosenberg Institut auf dem Rosenberg is a private International school, international boarding school located near Lake Constance in St. Gallen, Switzerland. Founded in 1889, it is one of the oldest boarding schools in Switzerland and reportedly the most ex ...

and studied civil engineering at university. In late 2006 his company Lombardi Engineering Ltd, a Swiss engineering and design company, was retained to build the Gibraltar Tunnel railway tunnel.

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1926 births 2017 deaths People from Sorengo Swiss engineers Institut auf dem Rosenberg alumni {{Switzerland-engineer-stub