Materials in bridges: a designer’s perspective

Héctor is Design Director at Knight Architects and bridge designer with a worldwide reputation. Creating bridges that improve the quality of the built world has been his foremost aim as a designer during his almost 20-year long career. In this time, he has been directly and meaningfully involved in every stage of the bridge project lifecycle, from conception to construction completion.

This extensive expertise has allowed him to be responsible for the conception of numerous bridges, many of them award-winning designs, that meet all the project requirements while simultaneously adopting an aesthetically, functionally and structurally holistic approach to design.

Héctor was awarded the extremely prestigious IABSE Prize 2016 in recognition of his holistic approach to bridge design.

Andrew is responsible for technical market development for Outokumpu with a focus on applications for stainless steel technology in structural engineering, especially bridge as well as energy applications such as nuclear power, solar power and other renewable energy sectors.