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Prof. Fernando Ortiz Quintana

Profile

Prof. Fernando Ortiz Quintana Dozent

Contact

  • Contact hours Monday
    Tuesday
    Thursday
  • Address Berner Fachhochschule
    School of Architecture, Wood and Civil Engineering
    Institut digitale Bau- & Holzwirtschaft
    Solothurnstrasse 102
    2504 Biel

Activities

  • Projekt work (civil and architecture)

  • Conceptual design of structures

  • Structural analysis

  • Informatik and digitalization

  • Computer-aided structural analysis

  • FEM (Cubus, AxisVM, Sofistik), earthquake engineering

Teaching

  • Civil engineering

  • Architecture

  • Timber structures

  • MSE Master of Civil Engineering

  • Computer-aided design of structures I

  • Computer-aided design of structures II

  • Conceptual Design of Structures

  • Concrete 2 & 3

  • Bridge design

  • Architecture project work

  • Civil engneering projekt work

  • Computer-aided static and dynamic analysis 1 (MSE)

  • Computer-aided static and dynamic analysis 2 (MSE)

Research

  • Conceptual design of structures

  • Computer-aided static and dynamic analysis of structures.

  • Material- and geometrical non-linearities

  • FEM Analysis: Sofistik, AxisVM, Cubus

CV

  • Fernando Ortiz is a structural engineer with a broad professional experience in the design of structures. He studied in Spain, USA and Italy and worked between 2002 and 2016 in engineering offices in Germany, China and Switzerland. Concurrent to his professorship at the Bern University in the field of computer aided structural design and analysis he is lecturer at the Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) of ETH Zürich. He regularly visits universities in China, India, Nepal and Spain on academic appointment.
  • 2002-2006 Engineer Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, Stuttgart, Germany
  • 2007-2009 Senior Engineer Arup, Beijing, China
  • 2009-2012 Project leader Walt Galmarini AG, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2012-2016 Project leader SMT AG, Bern, Switzerland
  • 2016-today Lecturer ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2019-today Professor Bern University of Applied Sciences, Burgdorf, Switzerland
  • 2022-today Expert Equi Bridges, Zürich, Switzerland

Supervised theses

  • Thien-Phuoc Vo Application of multi-criteria optimisation for the digital construction 18/19

  • Madushan Ganeshalingam Design of a residential building in Subingen, Switzerland 19/20

  • Fitiwi Fesehatsion Design of a residential building in Pieterlen, Switzerland 19/20

  • Rishaan Nithianandarajah Pointcloud-2-BIM: current and future state of technology 19/20

  • Arpad Fekete Design of a residential building in Pieterlen, Switzerland 19/20

  • Arpad Fekete One roof for Prishtina, Kosovo 17/18

  • Arpad Fekete Design of an industrial facility in Härkingen, Switzerland 18/19

  • David Tschan FEM-aided simulation of a tightness-ring in Silicon with ANSYS Workbench 20/21

Language skills and intercultural knowledge

  • German - Full professional proficiency
  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Italian - Professional working proficiency
  • Spanish - Native or bilingual proficiency
  • Chinese - Elementary proficiency
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • China
  • India
  • Nepal