Programme

13th November 2026 – Conference Day

Registration - 9:00 am

WOLFF & MÜLLER Campus

Schwieberdinger Str. 107 (access via Lorenzstraße), 70435 Stuttgart

Opening Ceremony - 9:30 am

Welcome from German Group of IABSE - Prof. Dr.-Ing. Geralt Siebert

Welcome from local host - WOLFF & MÜLLER

Welcome from French Group of IABSE – Claude Le Quéré

Keynote Presentation - Dr. Roman Geier, Austria

Presentations | Part 1 - 10:30 am

Oral Presentations

Adrián Salas Calvo, Itziar Fernández Ortega - Lessons Learned from Segmental Tunnel Designs: Toronto and Sydney Metro Projects

Jonas Aparicio - Non-Destructive Testing of External Post-Tensioning in Civil Engineering Structures

Short Presentations of the Poster Session

Yannick Vievers • Leonie Heller • Mobin Faridian • Marlon Hilscher

Gabriel Frasson Nunes • Lara-Sophie Schubert • Christoph del Castillo Albildo • Aakash Ravichandran

Lisa Anne Syndikus • Adil Ahmad • Medardo Hernández Rivera • Ainaz Sultangirova

Lunchbreak - 12:00 pm

Presentations | Part 2 - 1:15 pm

Oral Presentations

Erak Zeinou - Fracture Toughness Behaviour of Duplex Stainless Steels

David Forster - Fundamental Mechanics: Approaching Structural Design from its Base

Adriano Silva de Carvalho - Vierendeel Mechanism in Adaptable Joints with Long Slotted Holes

Norberto Robayo Mora, Andrea Vecchie - Experimental assessment of knot influence on timber beam bending performance using short-gauge and long-gauge fiber‑optic strain sensing

Short Presentations of the Poster Session

Natalie Berreth • Rishabh Dixit • Annelie Gering • Gesa Werner

Natalie Hoyer • Koschan Farhead • Diba Kopic • Isabel Ajjour

Coffee Break - 3:00 pm

Presentations | Part 3 - 3:45 pm

Oral Presentations

Axel Trautwein - Extending the service life of railway bridges using active elements

Stefan Nübler - Independent 3rd Party Supervisor on the New Sotra Suspension Bridge, Norway

Paula Apollonia Wunderlich - Spatial variability in wind signal generation: Hardanger Bridge

Eva Janke, Fabian Doetsch - An Interdisciplinary Pedestrian Bridge Concept for Koblenz

Eyad Aljouharji - Urban Bridges: From Traffic Corridors to Urban Spaces

Valentina Antoniani - Selective Intervention for the Rio Torto Bridge

Introduction of IABSE and Young Engineers Programme (YEP)

Closing Ceremony - 5:30 pm

Get Together with Award Ceremony - 7:30 pm

Ratskeller Stuttgart, Marktplatz 1 70173 Stuttgart

14th November 2026 – Technical Walks

Visit of the Horb Viaduct

Estimated duration of the visit, including travel time: 8:00 am – 12:30 pm

Please remember to bring your safety shoes.

Further information about the detailed program can be found further down.

Visit of Stuttgart 21

Estimated duration of the visit: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Please remember to bring your safety shoes.

Further information about the detailed program can be found further down.

14th November 2026 - Technical Walks

Visit of the Horb Viaduct

Estimated duration of the visit, including travel time: 8:00 am – 12:30 pm

Meeting point and time: tbd

The Horb High Bridge is part of the Horb bypass, designed to divert through-traffic on Federal Highway 32 around the town of Horb. Currently under construction since 2023, the bridge will span 667 meters and reach a height of up to 70 meters above ground level. The pylon height of this extradosed bridge will be 90 meters. The bridge spans the Neckar Valley, although the Neckar River itself is only 15 meters wide at this location. The project is currently one of the largest infrastructure undertakings in Baden-Württemberg. Commissioning is scheduled for 2028.

The tour will be led by representatives from the engineering firm Leonhardt, Andrä und Partner Beratende Ingenieure VBI AG and the company röro, responsible for the launching gantry.

Further information about the structure, along with visualizations and videos, can be found on the Karlsruhe Regional Council’s information webpage for the Horb High Bridge.

This technical walk will be presented in english language.

Visit of Stuttgart 21 underground station

Estimated duration of the visit: 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Meeting point and time: reception area of the InfoTurmStuttgart (ITS) at Platform 16 within Stuttgart Central Station, time tbd

Stuttgart 21 is a transport and urban development project aimed at reorganizing the Stuttgart railway hub. The project involves the construction of eleven new – predominantly underground – railway lines (totaling 57 km) and four new stations, including a new central station, which will be the destination of this excursion. The new underground station will replace the existing 17-track terminus with an 8-track through-station. This new underground facility will free up approximately one square kilometer of current or former track area on the edge of Stuttgart’s city center for urban development.

The meeting point is the reception area of the InfoTurmStuttgart (ITS) at Platform 16 within Stuttgart Central Station. We will receive an introduction to the overall Stuttgart-Ulm Rail Project at the InfoTurmStuttgart exhibition. Afterward, we will put on personal protective equipment and tour the construction site surrounding Stuttgart Central Station.

Further information about the project, along with visualizations and videos, can be found on the DB Projekt Stuttgart-Ulm GmbH information page for the Stuttgart-Ulm Rail Project.

This technical walk will be presented in english language.

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

You are free to bring your own helmet or vest.

Please do not bring any luggage to the construction site. Please store your luggage in a secure location, such as the hotel or public lockers, as we do not have space for it during the technical walks.

Keynote Speaker - Dr. Roman Geier

Roman Geier was born in 1974 and, after graduating from a higher technical college, completed his studies in civil engineering (Dipl.-Ing.) in 1998. He then began his career at a large Austrian engineering consultant, while simultaneously completing a doctoral degree in structural monitoring at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) in 2004. Since 2005, Roman Geier has been employed at Schimetta Consult ZT GmbH, an Austrian engineering consultant with approximately 100 employees and a portfolio focused on the planning and construction supervision of transportation infrastructure projects. As managing partner, he is responsible for the departments of transportation systems, construction management, and monitoring.

Roman Geier has been an IABSE member since 1999 and has held various positions within the organization. In the past, in addition to chairing WC2 Steel, Timber & Composite Structures, he also chaired Young Engineers, a key role within IABSE. Since 2018, Roman Geier has focused on the IABSE Foundation, which he chaired from 2022 to 2026