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Earthquake Engineering
Analysis and Design

Consultants for the damage evaluation and proposal of repair and strengthening solutions for buildings damaged during earthquakes.

Consultants for seismic design and monitoring of Curtain Walls Systems of Glass and Aluminum. Among the relevant projects studied: International Terminal of the Airport of Santiago, Chile, the Airport of Ushuaia, Argentina, the Antel Building in Montevideo, Uruguay and various tall buildings in Santiago, Chile.

Consultants for Earthquake / Dynamic Analysis (with Computer codes) of different tall buildings, for different engineering consulting offices.

Structural / Earthquake Analysis and Design for the retrofit of the Malleco Viaduct, a large railroad steel structure (bridge) built in the early 1900s in the southern part of Chile.

Structural / Earthquake Analysis and Design for the emergency repair / retrofit of the Maipo River Railroad Bridge, a large steel structure built in the early 1900s that suffered damage due to a pier foundation failure in a flooding event.

Structural Analysis and Design, including full detail design, of supporting structures for equipment and silos for Bottom Ash Handling Systems in Coal Fired Power plants: Bocamina I Upgrade (Endesa) and Mejillones Andino Project (GDF-Suez Energy) as sub-contractor for Magaldi Power S.p.A. (Italy).

Seismic Consultant for the certification from seismic behavior point of view of a Steam Condenser for the Mejillones Andino Power Plant Project (GDF-Suez Energy) for Foster-Wheeler Spain.

Seismic Consultant and Reviewer for the Sea Water FGD System of the Upgrade Project of the Ventanas II Power Plant where Alstom Norway was EPC Contractor for AES-Gener.

Conceptual Design and later Detail Design implementation of retrofit of Connection details for steel support structure of Boiler Systems. This required the use of Pushover Analysis and other nonlinear analysis methods in order to minimize the impact of the retrofit in the already built structure.