Build the future – ALLPLAN Infrastructure Digital Conference 2022

José Rolo Duarte, Project Director – Transports, QUADRANTE, Portugal

José Rolo Duarte works as Project Director in the Transports Business Unit and collaborating with QUADRANTE since 2012. His experience includes motorways, railways (regular and high-speed structures), bridges, viaducts and special structures. He also has commercial responsibilities in the South American Transport market. He has been in the São Paulo office in Brazil for 3 years (2013-2016) working as a Country Manager in the last year of his stay.

Xin Yang, Intermediate engineer, Bridge and tunnel Institute of China Earth Group Fuzhou Survey and Design Institute Co., LTD, China

Xin Yang is an intermediate engineer at the Bridge and tunnel Institute of China Earth Group Fuzhou Survey and Design Institute Co., LTD. He is participating in the project 344M single-box five-room cast-in-place concrete box girder design, cross-railway four bridge with T frame bridge. His specialities are Midas rapid modeling, BIM 3D modeling, English translation and scheme designer drawing. In this project he is responsible for Midas modeling, Allplan modeling and Engineer 3D drawing of the main line left bridge.

Julien Meloux, Designer - Civil Engineering Department, COGECI Bureau d'Etudes de Génie Civil, France

Julien Meloux, as a designer with 16 years of experience, including 16 years with COGECI, has worked on all types of engineering structure projects over the years, both new and rehabilitated for road and rail projects. He has thus acquired experience in all construction techniques relating to engineering structures: reinforced concrete, prestressing, steel. It is only natural that he became interested in BIM and modeling when the digital transformation of their businesses began. Today, he is part of the working group responsible for deploying all these new technologies within COGECI's Civil Engineering Department.

Gérald Lehallais, Project Manager Engineer, COGECI Bureau d'Etudes de Génie Civil, France

Gérald Lehallais joined COGECI 8 years ago after a double degree from Centrale Lyon/KTH (Stockholm), specializing in civil engineering. Since then, he has worked mainly on design studies for all types of structures and all sizes of projects (new, repair, reinforced concrete, pre-stressed concrete, mixed structures, suspension bridges, port structures, cable cars, etc.), but also as an external inspector. He is actively involved in the development of calculation tools for COGECI's Civil Engineering Department.

Brett Marshall, Staff Engineer, PENNONI ASSOCIATES INC., USA

Brett Marshall is a Staff Engineer at Pennoni Associates in Newark, Delaware with 15+ years of experience with expertise in the areas of bridge inspection, bridge design and CADD design. During his career he has performed bridge inspections for multiple agencies across the United States of America and has been involved in the design and construction of various structures including highway bridges, culverts, dam/spillway repairs as well as bridge rehabilitations. Having 18+ years of CADD experience, Mr. Marshall has a broad understanding in developing plans for bridge construction from preliminary to final design for multiple DOT’s using various types of design software.

Patrick Elsensohn, Managing Director, CDS Bauingenieure AG, Switzerland

After working for several years as a bricklayer and then as a draftsman, Mr. Patrick Elsensohn took additional courses to become a construction manager. In 2009, he completed the education for a qualified project manager. Since 2012 he has been working for CDS Bauingenieure AG as head of the civil engineering department and took over the management of CDS Bauingenieure AG in the summer of 2020.

Jan Schneider, Training Manager, Infrastructure, CDS Bauingenieure AG, Switzerland

Jan Schneider completed his apprenticeship as a draftsman in 2009. He worked several years in the social sector. From 2016, again, he was employed as a draftsman at Fischer Ingenieure AG and active in all areas (structural engineering, drainage, road construction). He was responsible for training of apprentices. Currently he is in training as technician HF construction planning. Since the beginning of 2022, he has been working for CDS Bausoftware in the support department with specialization in civil engineering / road construction with Allplan Engineering Civil.

Benjamin Bruder, BIM Coordinator for Infrastructure, KREBS+KIEFER Ingenieure GmbH, Germany

Benjamin Bruder is an M.Sc. Eng. from Thuringia, Germany. He has a master's degree in Engineering of „Management of Construction, Real Estate and Infrastructure“ at the Bauhaus University Weimar. Currently he is working at KREBS+KIEFER Engineering GmbH as a BIM coordinator and the chairman of the „BIM Coordination Working Group“ at several locations, implementing the methods of BIM into the construction of bridges and tunneling. He is going to summarize his practical knowledge of 3 years in the digital construction sector in a Ph.D. at the Bauhaus University with the topic „Transformation Of Urban Sectors With BIM“.

Ivana Ilić, Senior Designer, Radionica mostova d.o.o., Croatia

Ivana Ilić graduated in 2006, at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at University of Zagreb. She started her career in the company IPZ d.d where she worked on capital infrastructure projects in Croatia and in parallel as associate at the Department of Engineering Mechanics in Faculty of Civil Engineering in Zagreb for a few years. In 2017, she joined the structural team at Radionica mostova d.o.o. in Zagreb. The design office specialized in the design of bridges and complex structures with the implementation of BIM technology. There, she started working with Allplan and became team leader and an expert in BIM technology.

Ionuț Mustăța, Structural Engineer, SSF - RO SRL, Romania

Ionuț Mustăța has graduated at the Faculty of Construction - Civil Engineering Department, at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara.  As a professional, he has developed during the past 15 years skills in modeling and detailing of complex, irregular shaped structures, that range from civil and industrial buildings to bridges. He is open to the use of new technologies and workflows in his projects. Ionuț Mustăța applyed classical 3D modeling and detailing with Allplan, and has adopted in recent years parametric modeling with Allplan Bridge in the company SSF-RO, at the suggestion and consultancy of ALLBIM NET Romania.

Dr. Detlef Schneider, CEO ALLPLAN GmbH

Dr. Detlef Schneider has been CEO of ALLPLAN GmbH since 2019 and looks back on more than 20 years of experience in the international software industry, including at an international provider of software and cloud solutions in the areas of product development, high-performance computing and data intelligence. Dr. Schneider studied mechanical engineering at the University of Karlsruhe and holds a PhD.