12th October 2019 - Technical Walks

!!! Don't forget to bring your security shoes !!!

You are free to bring your own helmet or vest.

Please do not bring your luggage to the construction site. Please store your luggage, e.g. hotel or public lockers, as we take the public transport over the day.

Construction site „Highway BAB 100“

Meeting point: Sonnenallee 255, 12057 Berlin, “iPunkt” at 9:45 AM, Saturday 12.10.2019

   You can take the S-Bahn S41/S42 to station “Sonnenallee”, then approximately 7 min of walking to the “iPunkt”.

   We will visit the construction site “Extension of BAB 100” at 10 AM.

   You can find more information of the project HERE and get a first impression from the webcams.

Construction site „ÜBerlin Residential Tower“

   After a small lunch box, we will visit the construction site “ÜBerlin”.

   You can find more information of the project HERE.

3:30 PM is the End of Young Engineers Colloquium 2019!

   To get back to your hotel, airport or main station the closest S-Bahn station is “Rathaus Steglitz”

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Michel Virlogeux

Michel Virlogeux is born on July 7, 1946 at Vichy. He has been educated at the Prytanée Militaire de La Flèche where his father was Professor of geography. He graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1967 and from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in 1970.

He started working in Tunisia for three years (1971 to 1973), at the Direction des Ponts et Chaussées, and in the same time became Docteur Ingénieur of the Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris. He came back from Tunisia in January 1974, to work at the SETRA, the technical service of the French Highway Administration. He worked there for more than 20 years, becoming head of the concrete bridges division in 1980, and of the large bridges division, steel and concrete, in 1987. During this period he designed many bridges with his team, including the Normandie Bridge which held the world record of cable-stayed bridges from January 1995 to May 1998.

In February 1995, he left the SETRA to work as an independent consultant. He has been associated to the design and construction of many major bridges, like the Vasco de Gama Bridge in Lisbon and the Rion Antirion Bridge in Greece, and designed or took part in the design of many bridges including the Millau Viaduct, the Jacques Chaban Delmas lift bridge in Bordeaux, the curved cable-stayed bridge at Térénez, and with Jean-François Klein the Third Bosphorus Bridge.

He has constantly given lessons in the French technical schools, and is still Professor of Bridge Design and Construction at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées.

He has been President of the Fédération Internationale de la Précontrainte (1996-1998), of the Fédération Internationale du Béton (1998-2000) and of the European Construction Institute (2008-2014) and is Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.