António Adão da Fonseca - civil engineer Professor Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto President AFAssociados

Civil Engineer
Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto
President of AFAssociados - Consultores de Engenharia, SA
Diploma in Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal.
PhD in Structural Engineering at the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine of the University of London, United Kingdom.
Senior Civil Engineer and Specialist in Structural Engineering of the "Ordem dos Engenheiros".
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Key Data

President of AFAssociados - Consultores de Engenharia - and director of the Bridge Design Group of AFAssociados.
Professor of Bridge Design at Porto University and Invited Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Lisbon Autonomous University.
Graduated in Civil Engineering at the University of Porto in 1971 and awarded the PhD in Structural Engineering at the Imperial College of the University of London in 1980. The thesis on "Plastic analysis and synthesis of plates and shells by mathematical programming" has influenced his work as structural designer and can be seen in the conception and detail of some of the bridges produced by AFAssociados.
President of the Civil Engineering "Colégio" of "Ordem dos Engenheiros" for the period 1995-1998, and President of the European Council of Civil Engineers (www.eccenet.org) for the period 1998-2002.
Member of the Advisory Board of IPPAR (Portuguese Institute of the Architecture Heritage)
Member of the High Council for Public Works
Invited speaker in several Universities and Seminars in Spain, France, Italy, United Kingdom, Finland, Romania, Norway, Chile, Brazil and USA.

MOST RELEVANT PROJECTS
BRIDGES
Bridge Infante Dom Henrique, crossing the river Douro from Porto to Gaia, at the height of 75 m. The prestressed concrete box-girder deck is 380 m long and is elastically supported by a flexible concrete arch of straight chords. The arch is 1.5 m thick, 280 m span and 23 m high, thus with a span/height ratio of 12 (open in 2003)
Pedestrian Bridge crossing the river Douro between the "Ribeiras" of Porto and Gaia, with a stainless steel 160 m span arch (design finished).
New Multimodal Bridge crossing the River Douro (under design)
Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge crossing the river Mondego, at Coimbra, in partnership with Engineer Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup & Partners, Consulting Engineers (design finished).

PROJECTS FOR EXPO'98 - UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION IN LISBON 1998
Administrative and Entrance Building of the Lisbon Oceanarium, under contract to Ove Arup & Partners - Consulting Engineers and in the design team of Architect Peter Chermaief (Cambridge Seven Design, Inc) (built).
Pavilion of the Knowledge of the Seas, in consortium with Ove Arup & Partners - Consulting Engineers and in the team of Architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça (built).
Services Central Pavilion, in the team of Architect José Guedes Cruz (built).

OTHERS BUILDINGS
Miquelen Buildings, in Los Teques, Venezuela (built).
School of Biotechnology of the Catholic University of Porto, in the team of architect João Adão da Fonseca (built)
The Península Building in Porto, in the team of architect Diogo Lima Meyer (Intergaup - Gabinete de Urbanização e Planeamento, Lda) (built).
Buildings for the Post-graduate School for Business Studies of the Catholic University of Lisbon, in the team of architects Luís Cunha e Domingos Ávila Gomes (built).
Group of high-rise buildings for residential and commercial use, in Macau (built).
Belém Palace - Information and Documentation Centre, in the team of architect João Luís Carrilho da Graça (built).
Portuguese Pavilion for EXPO2000 - Hannover Universal Exhibition, in the team of architects Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura (built).
Buildings of Via Catarina Shopping, in Porto, with BDP - Building Design Partnership (built).
Casa da Música, Porto, with Ove Arup & Partners - Consulting Engineers, in the team of architect Rem Kolhaas (structure built).
Residence of the Portuguese Embassy in Brasília - Brasil, in the team of architects Ricardo Gordon and Carlos Vilela (design finished).
Portuguese Embassy in Berlin, in the team of architects Inês Lobo and Pedro Domingos (under design).

INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS
SOPORCEL Paper Mill in Figueira da Foz (built).
SIEMENS / INFINEON Backend Semiconductors Factory in Vila do Conde (2nd phase under construction)