2024

"Life-Talk" Series 

Hybrid event on 20 June 2024, 16:30 hrs CET.

Topic: "Adaptive constructions for submarine infrastructure"

Speaker: Michael Olipitz

Venue: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Peter Jordan Strasse 82, Schwackhöferhaus SR06.

To register: Please write to Alois.Vorwagner@ait.ac.at.

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Michael Olipitz, SDO ZT GmbH. M. Olipitz has been working in the construction industry for 25 years. His professional career started in the project planning office of PORR AG as a project manager in structural planning for projects in Austria, Poland and the Czech Republic. In 2000 he passed his civil engineering exam in Vienna and in 2003 founded the civil engineering office “Structural Design Olipitz”, which became “SDO ZT GmbH” in 2011. From 2003 to 2009, in addition to his civil engineering office, he held a post doc assistant position at the architecture faculty at Graz University of Technology, with a research focus on hybrid systems. In 2005 he received the State Building Prize from the State of Carinthia for the Friedensbrücke Villach and in 2008 the State Building Prize from the State of Salzburg for the Stadtbibliothek Bauteil Neue Mitte Lehen, for which he also received the European Steel Construction Prize from the ECCS in 2009. Since 2014, he has founded a research department within SDO ZT GmbH with the purpose of developing innovative construction systems (RSFTB, 3-MCC or NEA principle) to reduce our resources. SDO ZT GmbH is the owner of several international patents for innovative construction systems (see also at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-olipitz-77922240/). In 2018 he founded “SDO precast&construction” in Riyadh, KSA. He is currently managing director of “SDO ZT GmbH” and the SDO partner companies in Dubai and Riyadh, author of several publications and involved in the implementation of research projects in the construction industry.

2023

On 12 Dez. 2023, from 17 to 19 hrs, the Austrian National Group, chaired by Prof. Alfred Strauss and team, organised a talk on the topic, "Ingenieurbau der Zukunft", at the Universität für Bodenkultur. It was a successful event which discussed aspects of structural engineering in the future. As a result of the advancing age of many Bridges in the ASFINAG network, a large number of replacement - new buildings will be inevitable in the next few years. The associated forecast greenhouse gas emissions from ASFINAG, therefore, develop in the opposite direction to the net greenhouse gas emissions path of the European climate targets, if not decisively counteracted. In a lecture, the ASFINAG Baumanagement Gesellschaft (BMG) presented its roadmap as a framework catalogue on the way to “Net Zero”. Measures are focused on the area of ​​action, “sustainable management”.Tools were presented that can create incentives for resource-efficient and climate-friendly planning and construction opportunities.