fib Young Members Group Podcast Series

Irene Josa is a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction at the University College London and a leading expert on the sustainability assessment of concrete structures. Irene’s work is focused on sustainability assessment of construction materials, products and structures, both at the level of Life Cycle Assessment (environmental, economic and social), as well as integrated susta...

Ysabel Guil-Celada is a Project Manager and Senior Associate at the Arenas & Asociados bridge design consultancy company based in Madrid. Ysabel boasts an extensive and impressive portfolio, having led the structural design and analyses of numerous bridge projects, including several landmark structures. These include, among others, the Santa Teresa Bridge over the River Pisuerga in Valladolid...

Jean Michel Torrenti is a reseracher at the Université Gustave Eiffel, professor at Ecole des ponts and Director of Research at ESITC-Paris. Within the fib , he has been active for 17 years, reaching the position of Presidium member and Chairman of Commission 4 Concrete & Concrete Technology. Jean Michel has held various positions at French engineering schools and research centres. This has al...

My guest on this episode is Maggie Planchat, CEO of fsp Architects. She got her diploma from MIT, worked for a contractor in the UK and then moved to Switzerland, where she is leading an architectural design team. RELATED PODCASTS, SOURCES AND LINKS: https://www.fsp-architekten.ch/ VENUE: This episode was recorded on the 16th of July 2024, in Zürich, Switzerland. Thanks for listening! Follow us on...

Jeannette Kuo is a founding partner of the architecture practice KARAMUK KUO based in Zurich. Established in 2010 with Ünal Karamuk, the work of the office focuses on the intersection of spatial concepts and constructive technologies, recognizing architecture as a social and material discipline. The office works on projects of a range of scales, from schools and housing to complex cultural project...

Urs Meister, in collaboration with Johannes Käferstein, has been running the architectural practice Käferstein & Meister Architekten, based at 275 Limmatstrasse in Zurich's industrial district, since 1996 and is strongly rooted in the city and its building culture. The office team consists of an average of 10 employees. The firm is committed to high-quality, multi-layered architecture tha...

Since 2015, DI Sebastian Spaun has been managing director of the Association of the Austrian Cement Industry (VÖZ). Before that, he has already led the department on Environment & Technology of the VÖZ for 17 years.  Other functions of him include being board member of the Austrian Society for Construction Technology (ÖBV) as well as supervisory board member of Austrian Cooperative Research (A...

Sony Devabhaktuni is assistant professor of design in the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) where he joined the architecture faculty in January 2016. He has taught design studios and elective seminars in the undergraduate and graduate programs. He also teaches an introduction to architectural representation for 1st and 2nd year students from across the university as p...

Professor Benjamin Kromoser is the head of the Institute of Green Civil Engineering at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, Austria (short: BOKU Wien). He is a civil engineer and inventor with a close connection to craftsmanship. His research, teaching and practice is oriented towards the best possible use of natural resources in the construction sector. In his early ca...

Thomas Romm is an architect with his own office based in Vienna. He studied architecture at the TU Vienna as well as the TU Berlin and, since his diploma thesis on recycling-friendly residential buildings, he has dedicated his work to the topic of resources within the built environment, putting a strong focus on the environmental impact of planning and construction. As an expert for circular const...

Paolo Tombesi is Professor of Construction and Architecture at the School of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he directs the Institut d'architecture et de la ville.  He studied architecture in Italy and graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1990. A former Fulbright Fellow, he recei...

In this episode of the fib YMG Rising Stars Podcast series, we talk to Dr Rob Wolfs, assistant professor at TU Eindhoven and expert in 3D printing of concrete structures. Rob Wolfs is an assistant professor at the Technical University in Eindhoven and a world-leading expert in 3D printing of concrete structures. Rob has worked on the topic of 3D printing of concrete at TU Eindhoven since 2015 and...

In this episode of the fib YMG Rising Stars Podcast series, we talk to Dr Andri Setiawan, an incoming postdoctoral researcher at UPV. Andri is also active in the fib YMG where he is currently the Secretary. Andri’s research career has taken him all around the world, from his native Indonesia, where he graduated in civil engineering from Institut Teknologi Bandung to the UK, where he obtained his P...

In this episode of the fib YMG Rising Stars Podcast series , we talk to Dr. Mladena Luković from TU Delft where she is an assistant professor. Most recently, Mladena was awarded the prestigious 2016–2020 International SECO Magnel PhD Prize. Mladena’s impressive scientific career started 10 years ago when she became a graduate student at TU Delft and worked on her PhD thesis „Influence of interface...