Partner

Partners

COMBI is a coordinated effort of 6 partners from 3 european countries:

The (clickable) map below gives an overview of the geographic location of the partners' head offices and is a navigation aid for accessing the detailed information about each partner.

• LAP

  
  Leonhardt, Andrä and Partner GmbH
  (Stuttgart, Germany)
  
  -- Project Coordinator --

  LAP is a leading german design company in the field of structural engineering, and especially in structural dynamics. New calculation methods have been developed and transfered into computer programs which simulate the dynamic loads and the reaction of the structure as a linked system and also visualise the performance of the structure via monitoring the results on screen. In this way the design of different structures has been improved, e.g. bridges, towers and computer chip production plants.

  Together with partners and collaborators, LAP has contributed decisevely to the development of incrementally launched bridges, cable-stayed bridges, suspended roofs, post-tensioning systems, Neopot bearings, shear comb connectors.

  Contributions to COMBI in:

  • the development of the "Expert System for Preliminary Design"
    (together with CIB)
  • the overall verification of the developed prototypes

  COMBI Team

  Dr.-Ing. H. P. Andrä		Managing director, share holder at LAP		Project Manager of the COMBI project
  Dipl.-Ing. D. Sandner		Sen. proj. eng. (structural design)		COMBI team leader
  Dipl.-Ing. R. Schneider		Architect

  Contact

  Dipl.-Ing. Dieter Sandner
  
  Postal Address LAP GmbH 70026 Stuttgart Germany Fax +49 (711) 25-06-300
  
  
  

• DAP

  
  D'Appolonia S.p.A.
  (Genoa, Italy)
  
  

  DAP is an engineering design, consulting and software development company. Its staff has advanced technological background and experience and is able to apply its skills and provide consulting services on projects for offshore, transportation and environment engineering structures, with research and development know-how in all those fields.

  During the early years of geotechnical engineering development, DAP pioneered applications of basic soil mechanics to the design and construction of foundations and earthworks for industrial and power expansion. The firm has always maintained a multidiscipline staff with expanded capabilities in material science, risk and safety, and system engineering. It has undertaken various complex endeavours in a range of world-wide projects.

  DAP provides expertise, skill and analytical tools for the solution of a wide range of problems. Activities include geotechnical, geological and structural engineering, risk, reliability and safety analyses, system development and environmental projects. A full range of engineering services are provided - from feasibility studies to final design of complex projects. DAP is at the forefront of system engineering, both in technological applications and in analytical techniques. Probabilistic methods and expert systems are used for the interpretation of component behaviour for various civil and industrial engineering applications.

  At present (1995) DAP comprises about 50 persons and has an average business turnover of about 7 billion lire per year.

  Contributions to COMBI in:

  • development of the "Expert System for Geotechnical Soil Characterisation and Foundation Design" (FD-XPS)
  • integration of the FD-XPS into the integration framework of COMBI

  COMBI Team

  Prof. Dr. D. Diamantidis		Consultant		Technical and administrative manager for COMBI
  M. Mangini, MSc		Sen. proj. eng.		Primary developer for COMBI

  Contact

  Mauro Mangini
  
  Postal Address D'APPOLONIA S.p.A Via San Nazaro 19 I-16145 Genova Italy Fax +39 (10) 3621078 [Gelöschtes Bild: /die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_bauingenieurwesen/cib/pics/tud/icon_email.gif Alternativtext: mail Bildunterschrift: ]Electronic Mail
  
  
  
  

• SOF

  
  SOFiSTiK Hellas Ltd.
  (Athens, Greece)
  
  

  Contributions to COMBI in:

  • development of the "RC Expert System" (RD-XPS)
  • development of the "Integrated Structural Analysis System"

  COMBI Team

  Dr.-Ing. Byron Diamantidis		Software Engineer		Technical and administrative manager for COMBI
  Panagiotis Protopsaltis		Sofware Engineer		Primary developer for COMBI
  Konstantin Tzaneteas		Managing Director

  Contact

  Dr. Byron Protopsaltis
  
  GREECE Postal Address Dr. B. Protopsaltis SOFiSTiK HELLAS Ltd. 3rd Septembriou GR-10433 Athens Greece Phone +30-1-822 0607 Fax +30-1-822 51632
  
  GERMANY Postal Address SOFiSTiK GmbH Tassiloplatz 7 D-81541 M&uumlnchen Germany [Gelöschtes Bild: /die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_bauingenieurwesen/cib/pics/tud/icon_email.gif Alternativtext: mail Bildunterschrift: ]Electronic Mail
  Phone +49 (89) 45-87-020 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              +49 (89) 45-87-020      end_of_the_skype_highlighting Fax +49 (89) 45-87-0222
  
  
  

• CIB

  
  Chair
  "Computeranwendungen im Bauwesen"
  TU Dresden
  (Dresden, Germany)
  
  CIB, an institute at Dresden University of Technology is doing research in the field of applied computer science with emphasis in the field of product and process modelling, distributed databank systems and applied AI such as knowledge based systems, reasoning systems and machine learning methods. The current research projects are supported by the local state of Saxonia (2 researchers), the German Research Foundation (4 researchers), and the EU (3 researchers).

  CIB is a leading partner in the research and development programmes ESPRIT projects 6609 COMBI and 20587 TOCEE. Its role within COMBI is to design an integrated product modelling framework so that the existence and the necessity of mapping of different modelling views and model decompositions onto the same building components can be adequately considered in a unified approach.

  Contributions to COMBI in:

  • overall integration concepts
  • development of the "RC Expert System" (RD-XPS)
  • development of the "Preliminary Design Expert System" (PRED)

  COMBI Team

  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Raimar J. Scherer		Head of the Professorship		Technical and administrative manager for COMBI
  Peter Katranuschkov begin_of_the_skype_highlighting     end_of_the_skype_highlighting		Sen. Research Assistant		Developer for COMBI
  Markus Hauser		Research Assistant		Developer for COMBI
  Christoph Nollau		Research Assistant		Developer for COMBI

  Contact

  Prof. Dr.-Ing. R. J. Scherer, Head, Chair "Computeranwendung im Bauwesen"
  
  Postal Address Lehrstuhl Computeranwendung im Bauwesen TU Dresden Mommsenstrasse 13 D-01062 Dresden Germany
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  Mommsenstr. 13 D-01069 Dresden Germany
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  George-B&aumlhr-Str. 1 Beyerbau Room No. 78 D-01069 Dresden Germany
  
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  Phone +49 (351) 463-2966 [Gelöschtes Bild: /Icons/fax.gif Alternativtext: Bildunterschrift: ] Fax +49 (351) 463-3975

• SSP

  
  Schmidt-Schicketanz & Partner GmbH
  Dept. Computeranwendung im Bauwesen Beratungsgeselschaft mbH
  (Munich, Germany)
  
  

  Contributions to COMBI in:

  COMBI Team

  Richard Junge

  Project Leader

  Technical and administrative manager for COMBI

  Contact

  Richard Junge
  
  Postal Address Osterwaldstr. 8000 Munich Fax
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• GCC

  
  General Construction Company S.A.
  (Athens, Greece)
  
  

  GCC is among the first ten construction companies in Greece, and specialises mainly in the construction of buildings (hospitals, hotels, office blocks, big area supermarkets, industrial buildings etc.) ranking at the top level of this domain.

  The activities of GCC cover all the main aspects of building construction - civil engineering, electro-mechanical engineering, project management, design - involving more than 50 high qualified engineers and architects.

  In order to encompass the full range of building works, the company has developed new departments such as the "Design, Research and Programming Department", where all new aspects of specialised construction are being investigated and specialised partners recommended, and the "Data Processing Department", where all information essential to design and construction is recorded, stored and made available for immediate retrieval.

  Contributions to COMBI in:

  • end-user expertise
  • data and user requirements acquisition
  • validation of the COMBI results

  GCC has provided the case project for the demonstration of the COMBI prototype.

  COMBI Team

  Emanouel N. Vrailas		Project Manager Member of the Board of Directors of GCC		Technical and administrative manager for COMBI
  Henri-Marc Sparacello		Sen. proj. eng.		Key participant in the COMBI project

  Contact

  Henri-Marc Sparacello
  
  Postal Address GENERAL CONSTRUCTION COMPANY S.A. 30 Kapodistriou Ave. GR-151 23 Maroussi / Athens Greece Fax +30 (1) 68-43-253 [Gelöschtes Bild: /Pics/email.gif Alternativtext: Bildunterschrift: ] Electronic Mail [Gelöschtes Bild: /die_tu_dresden/fakultaeten/fakultaet_bauingenieurwesen/cib/pics/tud/icon_email.gif Alternativtext: mail Bildunterschrift: ]Electronic Mail