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POLIMI is the largest technical university in Italy, with about 40,000 students. Founded in 1863 is ranked 20th by the QS World University Rankings. POLIMI holds a School of Doctoral Programs that coordinates 18 doctorate programs with approximately 1,100 PhD candidates per year with 30% international students. In 2015, PoliMI achieved the European “HR Excellence in Research” Logo (concerning the implementation of the principles of the European Charter for Researchers and the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers.)
The University of Twente is an entrepreneurial research university in the Netherlands that connects technology, science and engineering with social sciences. Thanks to this high-tech and human touch, 16,500 UT staff – students and academics – make an impact on society every day. The cross-disciplinary way of working that characterises the university opens up unexpected possibilities – especially in combination with creativity and excellence in scientific disciplines. The university’s distinctive educational model, engineering approach and open culture generate new ideas, new energy, and new ways forward.
The Department of Civil Engineering and Management is positioned at the Faculty of Engineering Technology. It aims to acquire qualitative and quantitative knowledge on the life cycle of civil engineering systems and objects, with a particular focus on the initiative phase, conceptual or functional design phase, and the operation and maintenance phase, all in a societal and environmental context. Research concentrates on construction management and engineering (e.g. planning, development, procurement systems and construction engineering), transport studies (e.g. engineering, management and interaction of transport systems) and water engineering and management (physics of marine and fluvial systems and integrated water management).
Politecnico di Bari (POB) is a research university that focuses its activity upon the studies of Engineering and Architecture. Many faculty members of the POB are top international scientists in several research areas, both traditional engineering ones and innovative ICT ones. Some important numbers: more than 10000 students, 308 ERASMUS outgoing students, 180 PhD students, 88 laboratories, and 5 departments.
Lund University is a public research university in Sweden and one of northern Europe’s oldest universities. Lund University has nine faculties around 44,000 students. The faculty of engineering (LTH) is the technical faculty at Lund University with its own rector and about 1,700 employees and 10,000 students.
The LTH Division of Structural Engineering strives for a safe, economically efficient, and sustainable design and integrity management of load bearing structures in buildings and infrastructures throughout their life cycle. Climate change and urbanization are phenomena raising a number of challenges, yet also creating opportunities for climate change adaptation innovations.
The research areas encompass timber, concrete and masonry structures and reliability, risk, decision, information value and risk acceptance analyses.
The Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG) is an internationally recognized organization specializing in construction. The institute is primarily focused on developing new materials and technologies pertinent to the sustainable development of Slovenia and holds international relevance. ZAG actively participates in international projects, collaborating and sharing knowledge with leading research groups globally.
ZAG performs various services, including testing, measurement, preparing opinions and expertise, as well as conducting external quality control and investigations in multiple fields such as buildings, bridges, dams, roads, railways, ski lifts, power lines, natural disasters, and underground structures.
As a public research institute, ZAG is a leader in the construction field within Slovenia. Research and scientific activities form a significant part of its operations, both in terms of content and strategy. The institute’s work in various building and civil engineering sectors has earned it recognition not only in Slovenia but also internationally. ZAG is among the most active members of the European Network of Building Research Institutes (ENBRI). Furthermore, ZAG’s researchers contribute to scientific excellence through publications in recognized domestic and international journals.
KTH Royal Institute of Technology is a public university in Stockholm, Sweden. It was established in 1827. KTH is ranked 73 in the world among all universities and 44 in the subject of Civil and Structural Engineering, according to the 2024 QS World University Rankings. KTH has 5 campuses with a total of over 13 000 full-time students, 1 700 PhD students and 3 600 full-time equivalent staffs.
The Division of Structural Engineering and Bridges is led by Prof. Raid Karoumi and consist of 2 full professors, 2 associate professors, 3 researchers and 10 PhD students. The research consists of both experimental, numerical and theoretical work and covers several areas related to railway bridge dynamics, train-track-bridge interaction, soil-structure interaction, traffic induced vibrations, reliability-based assessment of bridge dynamics, footbridge dynamics, fatigue and conditional assessment of bridges, and Structural health monitoring of bridges.
The division has participated in several international research projects, such as the 6th Framework EU project Sustainable Bridges, the RFCS project ELEM – Composite Bridges with Prefabricated Decks, the Scandinavian project ETSI – Bridge Life cycle Optimisation, the Marie Curie project Long Life Bridges, the 7th Framework EU project CAPACITY4RAIL, the EU Shift2Rail projects In2Smart, In2Track, In2Track2 and In2Track3, and the EU-Rail project IAM4RAIL.
Sacertis is a highly innovative enterprise that operates within the civil engineering industry, with a specific focus on monitoring and diagnostics, even in real-time, of both civil and natural structures and infrastructures. Sacertis provides a comprehensive service that encompasses all stages of the process, starting from the design and production of measurement instruments and systems, and culminating in the diagnostics of the monitored works. It provides diagnostics through a continuous real-time monitoring system at highly competitive costs, which is widespread and reliable, combining civil engineering knowledge, advanced and efficient cloud processing, the use of new sensors, and big data analysis. Sacertis develops numerical models for structural simulations, thus offering the possibility to create customized services according to the specific needs of the customer. Sacertis has designed and developed a network of continuous SHM systems for more than 150 bridges and tunnels, which are currently under monitoring, with the aim of further improving its industrial skills in the equipment and diagnosis of existing and new construction infrastructures.
Ramboll (RAM) is a leading engineering, design, and consultancy company founded in Denmark in 1945. The RAM Group employs 18,000 experts globally in 300 offices in 35 countries. RAM is a truly multi-disciplinary engineering, design, architecture and consultancy company working in market areas such as Buildings, Transport, Planning & Urban Design, Water, Environment & Health, with a strong focus on applied technical research and development to lead the innovation with digitalization of consulting engineering. Within Transport, the focus areas include Major Crossings and Bridges, where RAM for decades has provided services within bridge design, bridge rehabilitation, bridge construction management, bridges supervision and maintenance, reliability, load and safety assessments and structural health monitoring internationally as well as domestic.
CEMOSA, established 1972, is an Engineering Consultancy and Quality Control company in the civil and industrial engineering sector, including transport and building services.
Its headquarters are in Malaga (Spain), and it includes 14 national offices and 12 international offices (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru and Portugal) providing services in Europe, America and Asia.
The company comprises the following business lines: 1) Transport Infrastructures Engineering, 2) Geotechnical Engineering 3) Building and Industrial Engineering, 4) Construction Material Quality Control, 5) Sustainability, 6) Health and Safety Coordination, 7) Product Certification and 8) Research & Innovation.
The research and innovation department works jointly with the technical staff in other areas of the company. CEMOSA has a consolidated experience in Research & Innovations projects funded by the EU (FP7, H2020, HE) and the Spanish Government as coordinator and partner.
SOCOTEC MONITORING specializes in the monitoring of civil engineering structures (tunnels, dams, bridges, ports, energy infrastructures), and is the French leader in maintenance engineering based on diagnostics and monitoring. The company ensures risk control during the construction phase, as well as during long-term infrastructure operation.
The SOCOTEC MONITORING team masters civil engineering sensor technologies (vibrating wire, fiber optics, MEMS, IoT) and the associated interpretations to define risk levels.
SOCOTEC MONITORING has the software and hardware expertise to monitor structures with a large number of sensors in real time. Today, SOCOTEC MONITORING monitors around a hundred structures in real time, with more than 10,000 measurement channels acquired in real time using Datatys supervision software.
Finally, SOCOTEC MONITORING develops AI and machine learning solutions (computer vision, NLP, anomaly detection). With AI+X profiles possessing dual skills in Civil Engineering and AI, SOCOTEC MONITORING offers tailor-made algorithms to serve the business.
Pedelta is a leading and multinational bridge engineering firm, founded in Spain in 1994, with international recognition for cutting-edge innovation and expertise committed to technical excellence and innovative design. The company is a long-established independent firm that has grown systematically over the years since its foundation and has currently presence in six countries, which include North America, where it continues to expand. The company has operated in USA since 2006 and in Canada since 2012. Pedelta’s worldwide experience includes more than 2,000 bridge designs of all materials, structural types, and sizes, as well as construction engineering, assessment, inspection and rehabilitation of bridges. Pedelta has been involved in the most intriguing projects on an international scale, working both for public and private sectors and are active members of technical Committees
Wölfel Engineering GmbH + Co. KG is focused on engineering solutions around our central competence fields of vibration, structural mechanics and acoustics. Our services range from the expert opinion of a consulting engineer to the turnkey delivery of a system to solve a vibration problem. At the same time, the company developments, manufactures and distributes customized measurement and monitoring systems for vibrations, shocks, noise and immission control and, as a system house, offers support through technical support, training and application consulting
Cestel is a world-leading producer of bridge weigh-in-motion systems based in Trzin, Slovenia. With in-house research, development, and production, the company is at the cutting edge when it comes to the next generation of weigh-in-motion systems.
Established in 1992, Cestel’s core business at the onset of the company was the installation and maintenance of traffic counters, the static weighing of heavy vehicles, and the analysis of traffic data. At the start of the new millennium, the first commercially available bridge weigh-in-motion system in the world, SiWIM MkI, was developed by Cestel in cooperation with the Slovenian National Building and Civil Engineering Institute (ZAG). Currently in its fourth iteration, the portable SiWIM MkIV bridge WIM system is used all across the world for preselection purposes, bridge analysis, the gathering of traffic data, and much more. In 2023, Cestel made a further step forward by integrating its bridge WIM system with structural health monitoring sensors. The Structural Bridge WIM Diagnostic System presents a unique product where one system is used to monitor both traffic and the behavior of the structure of the bridge.
Cestel strives to continue its path of moving technological boundaries in the future and provide its customers with high-quality products and friendly business relationships.
Established in 2019, North Consulting offers a distinctive international knowledge and experience base cultivated over 30 years across Europe, China, North and South America. Services are designed to assist in identifying and assessing risks within specific contexts, while also developing and supporting the implementation of strategies for efficient, robust, and transparent risk management. North Consulting is committed to serving all societal stakeholders in the global community, and prioritizes addressing the needs, motivations, and resources of clients. Compensation for services is adjusted accordingly, reflecting dedication to adapting to requirements and available resources.
Associated Partners
The Federal Highway Research Institute (BASt) is a technical-scientific departmental research institution under the jurisdiction of the German Federal Ministry of Digital Affairs and Transport (BMDV). It advises the BMDV as well as other public and private bodies in the field of roads. In doing so, the BASt conducts its own research and also awards research contracts to third parties.
Unit B4 “Maintenance of Engineering Structures” in the department “Civil Engineering Structures” deals, among other things, with issues of condition assessment and evaluation of road infrastructure structures, in particular bridges. In this context, the inspection of structures according to DIN 1076 and its improvement or further development, also including new innovative techniques (NDT; monitoring, UAV/UAS, VR/AR, …), play an important role.
IBM Research GmbH, (IBM Research – Zurich), with approximately 300 employees, is a wholly owned subsidiary of the IBM Research division with headquarters at the T.J. Watson Research Centre in Yorktown Heights, NY, USA. IBM Research – Zurich, which was established in 1956, represents the European branch of IBM Research. At the lab, scientific and industrial research is conducted in three scientific and technical departments: Cloud & Computing Infrastructure, Cognitive Computing & Industry Solutions, Science and Technology. IBM Research – Zurich employs a steady stream of postdoctoral fellows, PhD candidates, and summer students who pass through the laboratory.
Tallinn Urban Planning Department is a department of Tallinn city and the main responsibilities are: – Planning the sustainable and harmonious development of the city of Tallinn, taking into account the values of the existing urban environment; – creating the preconditions for a cultural, social, economic, and natural environment for longterm, coherent and harmonious development, ensuring a good quality of life for people and a safe and clean environment.
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH) is one of the leading universities for technology and the natural sciences worldwide. It comprises 16 departments and is host to 21,400 students, including 4,180 doctoral students, from over 120 countries. In the 2021 edition of the QS World University Rankings ETH Zurich has been ranked 8th in the world and is also ranked 10th in the world by the Times Higher Education World Rankings 2022. ETH was involved in 175 People Marie Curie projects (113 Fellowships, 4 IRSES, 46 ITNs, 3 Researchers’ Nights, 3 COFUND, 2 Euraxess, 1 ERAMORE, 3 IAPP). ETH had 90 ERCs, 28 projects within the Capacities programme and 290 projects within the Cooperation programme in FP7. Within Horizon 2020, to date, 29 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions have been successfully conducted at ETH and came to term (19 IF, 10 ITN).
We inspect approximately 15,000 civil engineering structures annually for municipalities, provinces, water boards, ProRail (national railway), the Ministry of Public Works, contractors, engineering firms, and industrial plants. However, that is not what makes us special.
Our strength lies in making the lives of our clients easier. And that is based on valuable human interaction; just like listening carefully is, speaking the same language is, and being critical when necessary is. In this way, we help our clients to get a clear picture based on their needs and help them to find the best solution. From inspection and advice to drawing up contracts and specifications. In the most personal way.
Exprivia is the head of an international group specialized in Information and Communication Technology able to address the drivers of change in the business of its customers thanks to digital technologies. With a consolidated know-how and a long experience given by the constant presence on the market, the group has a team of experts specialized in different technological and domain fields, from Capital Market, Credit & Risk Management to IT Governance, from BPO to CyberSecurity, from Big Data to the Cloud, from IoT to Mobile, from networking to business collaboration up to the SAP world. The group supports its customers in the Banking&Finance, Telco&Media, Energy&Utilities, Aerospace&Defence, Manufacturing&Distribution, Healthcare and Public Sector sectors. The offer includes solutions consisting of own and third party products, engineering and consulting services. The company is subject to the management and coordination of Abaco Innovazione S.p.A. Exprivia distinguish itself for the reliability in managing complex projects through the connection and the integrating of vertical and horizontal skills and its ability to create solutions easy to use and to update, as they are based on continuous research and innovation.
Over the last ten years of operation, EGNATIA ODOS A.E. has been transformed into an organization with employees capable of meeting their current obligations and ready to undertake new projects that will supplement the infrastructures of the overland transport network both in Greece and in the wider region. During the last few years, EGNATIA ODOS S.A.E. has extended its activities abroad, by participating in international tenders and undertaking contracts for the management and supervision of designs and construction works, mainly of large infrastructure projects.
TRE ALTAMIRA (TREA), a CLS Group company, is the leading global provider of commercial services based on SqueeSARⓇ, which is today an industry standard for advanced Permanent Scatterer SAR Interferometry techniques to monitor ground motion by means of radar – SAR – satellite data processing.
TREA provides measurements of displacement to millimeter-precision to detect, measure and monitor geophysical phenomena such as subsidence, uplift, landslides, and seismic faults, as well as verify the stability of individual structures. Satellite displacement maps offer a quantitative understanding of ground response to natural and anthropogenic activities.
For over 20 years, TREA’s services have supported different applications in various sectors, including urban mapping and monitoring, geohazard monitoring, oil & gas, mining, and civil engineering, throughout Europe, North and South Americas, Australia, and Asia.
Along with commercial activities, TREA carries out R&D, industrial development and service provisions activities with Regional, National and European Institutions (European Commission and linked Agencies such as JRC, EEA), Space Agencies (European Space Agency, Italian Space Agency, Canadian Space Agency), and IFI (World Bank, Asian Development Bank).
TREA also collaborates with the Universities of California, Miami, Nevada, Berkeley and Stanford, the Politecnico di Milano and the University of Florence in Italy, the Italian Civil Protection Authority, and the Italian National Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology.
Bexel Consulting is a state-of-the-art technology vendor, engineering and consultancy company dedicated to the digital transformation of the construction industry. Bexel Consulting develops the BEXEL Manager construction management BIM platform using a fine-tuned synergy of innovation, technology, knowledge and experience. Bexel Consulting is a winner of buildingSMART (bSmart) International Innovation Award 2020. BEXEL Manager software platform allows the optimization of the digital workflows through advanced openBIM technologies. Bexel is Multinational Member of bSMART International, dedicated to openBIM standardisation as well as Certified bSMART International Professional Certification training centre.
Hrvatske autoceste d.o.o. (Croatian Motorways Ltd.) is a company 100% owned by the Republic of Croatia, and its core business is to manage, build, reconstruct and maintain the motorways infrastructure in accordance with the Highway Act (OG 84/11, 22/13, 54/13, 148/13, 92/14, 110/19). Pursuant to the Highway Act, the Croatian Motorways’ main responsibilities are: (i) Preparation of expert inputs for program of building and maintenance of motorways, (ii) Building and reconstruction of roads as stated in the Highway Act, (iii) Maintenance of roads as stated in the Highway Act, (iv) Resolving of ownership matters necessary for construction, reconstruction and maintenance of roads, (v) Financing of construction, reconstruction and maintenance of motorways, (vi) Charing the toll fees, and (vii) Monitoring of traffic flows.
Hrvatske Autoceste d.o.o. are continually oriented to the improvement of all their processes, which is proved by numerous certificates for the management system of quality, environment, health and safety at work, road traffic safety, energy management and anti-bribery management system.