Sten Forsström - civil engineer

year of birth: 1943
marital status: married
profession: chief engineer, civil engineering

Key Qualifications

Mr Forsström has 37 years' professional experience in design, project management and busi-ness administration including 3 years as contractor. His area of experience mainly covers heavy civil engineering structures such as reactor containments and buildings, coal fired power plants, offshore platforms and lighthouses, water towers, bridges, dams, tunnels, quays and
caissons. He has also designed a number of thin post-tensioned concrete slabs for parking structures and office houses.
In the projects Mr Forsström has been responsible for the following activities:
- Project management
- Structural engineering (including seismic analysis), especially for structures in pre-stressed concrete.
- Advanced computational methods (including large finite element models).
He was also 1980-1991 (part time) Main editor of "Nordisk Betong", the official journal of the Scandinavian Concrete Associations.
Employment Record

1993- VBB VIAK AB, VBB Anläggning AB at present SWECO VBB AB
1989-1993 SPÄNNARMERING AB
1966-1989 VBB AB


Experience Record

2003- Project Manager for SWECO's undertakings as Consultants for the 5th nuclear power plant in Finland.
2001- Project Manager for SWECO's undertakings as Structural Engineer for the high rise building Turning Torso at Malmö, Sweden. (Check of structural analysis. Responsible for shop drawings regarding the concrete structures)
1999-2003 Project Manager and/or Administrative Manager of SWECO-COWI's project Malmö Citytunnel. SWECO-COWI is the consulting engineer for the civil engineering part of the project including bored tunnel, concrete tunnels and railway stations.
1998 Chief Engineer responsible for Technical Development within VBB Anläggning, with special emphasis on nuclear reactor containments, seismic engineering and post-tensioned and pre-stressed concrete structures. Up-dating of the cost estimates for the City Railway Tunnel in Malmö, Sweden
1989-1998 Managing Director of VBB Anläggning AB, Stockholm

1986-1989 Project Manager and Chief Design Engineer for the civil engineering structures of
1986-1988 Chief Design Engineer for post-tensioned slabs of parking structures and office houses in the Stockholm Area
1985 Specialist for structural analysis of the Forebay dam (gravity dam) of Aswan II Power Plant, Egypt.
1981-1985 Principal Design Engineer for
- Special Tasks (subconsultant to Norwegian Offshore Consultants (NOC) in Oslo, Norway) for NOC's design of the concrete platform Gullfaks C in the North Sea.
- the pressure vessel of the filtered venting system for the reactor containments of Barsebäck I and II, Sweden.
- the reactor vessel of the PIUS concept (SECURE P) of Asea-Atom.
- the reactor building and reactor containment of the nuclear power plant at Oskarshamn III.
- the district heating reactor SECURE H of Asea-Atom
1980 Scholarship from the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). Studies in Seismic engineering, 2 weeks in Yugoslavia and 2 weeks in Romania.
Design Engineer for
1974-1978 - the standard reactor containment BWR 75 of Asea-Atom. The design includes seismic analysis.
1973-1978 - the reactor containments of the nuclear power plants at Olkiluoto I and II, Finland.
1971-1972 Supervising Engineer for prestressing works at the nuclear power plant at Barsebäck I, Sweden.
Design Engineer for
1969-1973 - the reactor containment of the nuclear power plants at Oskarshamn II and Barsebäck I-II, Sweden.
1967-1984 - approx. 30 open-sea lighthouses of the caisson type replacing lightships and buoys along the Swedish coast.
1967-1969 - water towers at Landskrona, Sweden and at Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia.
1967 - large concrete shells used in the salvage of the Abu Simbel Temples in Egypt
1966-1967 - the harbours at Oskarshamn (nuclear power plant) and Karlshamn (thermal power plant)

Publications

Use of Computers for the Static Analysis of a Containment, IABSE Colloquium on "Interface between Computing and Design in Struc-tural Engineering", Bergamo, Italy, 1978.

Quality Control of the Prestressing Works for the Reactor Contain-ment and Fuel Pools at TVO II Nuclear Power Plant, RILEM Sympo-sium on "Quality Control of Concrete Structures", Stockholm, Sweden, 1979.

Computer Aided Analysis for the Oskarshamn III Nuclear Power Plant, Symposium on "User Experiences with Structural Analysis Software in a CAD/CAM Environment, Zürich, Switzerland, 1982.

Konstruktion av efterspänt platsgjutet parkeringsdäck i Haninge Centrum. (Design of post-tensioned slab for parking structure. Article in Swedish) Tidskriften Cementa Nr 1 (1987).

Efterspända bjälklag. Tumregler för konstruktörer (Post-tensioned slabs. Rules of thumb for designers) Nordisk Betong Nr 4:1990.

Teaching Experience

1964-1970 Assistant lecturer in Descriptive Geometry, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
1972-1976 Assistant lecturer in Harbour Planning and Design, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

Education

1966 M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
1967 Pass degree (approbatur) in Managerial Economics at the University of Stockholm, Sweden.
1971 Studies in pre-stressed concrete, Paris, France (Scholarship ASTEF - 3 months).