André Coyne

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André Coyne (born February 10, 1891 in Paris , † July 21, 1960 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French engineer who built many large dams . He was a specialist in arch dams , of which he designed 55 pieces, most of them in France. But Coyne also built 32 dams of other types. In 1947 he founded the Coyne & Bellier engineering company . He invented and developed, among other things, the ski jump-shaped flood relief for dams.

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André Coyne studied at the École polytechnique , later at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées . In 1920 he worked as an engineer in Brest, where he supervised the tender for the construction of the Albert Louppe Bridge . After some time in the Dordogne department , Coyne participated in the Marèges dam from 1929 to 1935 . After completing his work, he and others built the dam of L'Aigle over a period of eleven years .

After his work there was finished in 1946, he founded the engineering office André Coyne et Jean Bellier the following year . In 1953, Coyne finally received the Grand prix d'architecture in recognition of his achievements .

André Coyne died on July 21, 1960 a few months after the collapse of the Malpasset dam he built on December 2, 1959.

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