Rob Nijsse - consulting engineer Netherlands director ABT

Rob Nijsse (50) is Consulting Engineer and Director of ABT, one of the bigger consulting engineering bureaus in the Netherlands. Dialogue between architecture and structure are of great interest his work. With a strong envolvement as consulting engineer he contributed to the quality of some famous projects, as the Educatorium building in Utrecht (architect OMA), the Minnaert building in Utrecht (architect Willem Jan Neutelings) and the Dutch Pavilion for the Expo 2000 World Exhibition in Hannover (architect MVRDV).
Beside from working with traditional structural materials like
concrete, steel and wood, the structural application of glass has his special attention.

c.v.

ir. Rob NIJSSE c.i.

Name: Robert Nijsse

born: 03-08-1953

Education
University of Technology, Delft, Faculty of Civil Engineering

Courses
Post Doctorate Concrete
Post Doctorate Steel Connections

Career
1979 ABT Consultancy for Construction Engineering Arnhem, Structural engineer
1990 Consulting engineer
1997 Director, consulting engineer

Special qualifications
- Experimental structures in glass
- Experimental structures in concrete; external reinforcement of concrete (Educatorium
Utrecht)
- Experimental structures in steel, Dutch Pavilion Expo 2000, Hannover


Lectures, Teaching

- 'Glass: a building material', Bartlett University of London; January 1993
- 'New Spatial Structures by Innovative Application of Existing Materials', Fourth Int.
Conference on Space Structures, University of Surrey, September 1993
- South California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) Los Angeles; KSA, April 1998
- Architectenskole, Arhus, Denmark, May 1998
- Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA, October 1998
- University of Sheffield, England, February 1999
- Technische Universität Berlin, May 1999
- School of Architecture, Copenhaqen, Denmark, February 2000
- Det Norske Arkitekakademie Oslo, September/November 2000

Selection of Projects:
Office buildings
Robeco - Rotterdam
European Patent Office - Leidschendam
Office (with complete glass roof) - Budapest
Town hall - Schiedam
Town hall - Leiden (renovation)

Hospital
Academic Hospital - Leiden

Other buildings
Post office - Scherpenzeel (Belgium)
Casino - Amsterdam
Newspaper printing facility - Rotterdam
Minnaert-building, state university - Utrecht
Cobra-museum - Amstelveen
Porter lodges (steel, wood, brick) - Hoge Veluwe
Renovation warehouse Asia + "De Zwijger" - Amsterdam
Renovation Aquarium Artis
Restaurant Posbank - Rheden
Educatorium (architect Rem Koolhaas) state university - Utrecht,
Museum Beelden aan Zee - Scheveningen
Villa KKBW - Utrecht

Various
Glass pavilion Sonsbeek - Arnhem
Bridge (for pedestrians / cycles) - Delft
Glass stairway - municipal museum - Zwolle

Dutch Pavilion Expo 1998 - Lissabon
Dutch Pavilion Expo 2000 - Hannover
Lampposts sport park - Arnhem