Klaus Ostenfeld

Klaus H. Ostenfeld (* 1943 ) is a Danish civil engineer.

Ostenfeld, the nephew of the founder (1930) of COWI Christen Ostenfeld , studied at the Technical University of Denmark . From 1966 he worked for the engineering office COWI in Copenhagen , initially working on startups at CERN that were supposed to carry heavy experimental equipment, but should have movement tolerances of less than a tenth of a millimeter. In 1970 he left COWI and worked for four years at Europe Etudes (a subsidiary of STUP von Freyssinet and Campenon Bernard ), including 1975/76 in Montreal, where he was involved in the design of several constructions for the Olympic Games (velodrome, Olympic stadium, swimming stadium). From 1977 he was back at COWI for the Great Belt Bridge project. There he was President and Chief Executive Officer . After his time as CEO, during which he concentrated on management and not on bridge construction, he was again active as an engineering consultant, for example for COWI for the project of a bridge over the Strait of Messina.

He was also Chairman of Buckland & Taylor and Ben C. Gerwick Inc.

He was the project manager of the railway tunnel, the east and west bridges of the Storebæltsbroen (Great Belt Bridge). Long before the Great Belt Bridge he was involved as a young engineer on the Little Belt Bridge and acquired a diving license to inspect the caissons before the concrete was filled. COWI was also significantly involved in the planning of the Øresund Bridge .

Ostenfeld is Vice President of the Danish Academy for Technical Sciences.

From 1997 to 2001 he was President of the International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE) and is its honorary member. He was chairman of the scientific committee for the IABSE Congress in Copenhagen in 1996. In 2018 he received the Albert Caquot Prize .

Web links

• Portrait on the occasion of IABSE honorary membership

Individual evidence

1. ^ Prix ​​Albert Caquot for Ostenfeld, COWI 2018