Walter Jurecka

Relocation of the Abu Simbel Temple

Walter Jurecka (born August 31, 1915 in Vienna ; † December 18, 1994 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian civil engineer.

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Jurecka studied civil engineering at the Technical University of Vienna from 1934 to 1939 and was then briefly assistant to Friedrich Schaffernak at the chair for hydraulic engineering. He was then a soldier in World War II and, after being a prisoner of war, took up a position in the planning office of Tauernkraftwerke AG in Kaprun . There he worked on static and hydraulic problems of dams and hydropower plants and wrote his dissertation with which he received his doctorate in 1949 ( The calculation of arched dams according to the load sharing method ).

Jurecka initially worked on the preliminary designs for the Aswan Dam , for which Hochtief submitted an offer in 1954 (it was later built by Soviet engineers after political entanglements). In 1954 he worked at the river power plant in Rain , from 1954 to 1956 he was involved with Hochtief's project Sarıyar Dam in Turkey and from 1956 to 1959 with the power plant on the planned Aswan Dam. Then he took over the foreign department of Hochtief. In 1962 Jurecka became professor for construction machinery and construction operations at RWTH Aachen University as the successor to Georg Garbotz , but had to be represented by Garbotz in 1964 when he was responsible for the planning and initial management of the implementation work for the Temple of Abu Simbel . In 1967 he became a member of the country team in the CC Pomerania Halle-Aachen . From 1971 to 1980 he was Professor of Construction Management and Construction Management at the Vienna University of Technology . The inaugural lecture in 1971 was about engineering as a decision-making process .

Jurecka researched methods of concrete cooling and vibration compaction, such as those used in dam construction, and methods of network planning and operations research in construction.

His wife Charlotte Jurecka (* 1919), who originally wanted to become a doctor and had studied medicine, dealt intensively with the history of bridge building, visited bridges and collected documents and literature, which was found in her book Bridges - Historical Development - Fascination of Technology ( 1979; 2nd edition, Vienna: Anton Schroll 1994) incorporated. The couple had two children.

Fonts

• The salvage of the Nubian monuments , civil engineer, 1965, issue 4
• Network planning in construction , 3 parts, Wiesbaden: Bauverlag, from 1972
• Network-Planning in the Construction Industr , London: MacLaren, Elsevier 1969
• with H.-J. Zimmermann: Operations Research in Construction , Springer 1972
• Construction machinery costs and services , Springer 1975
• Simulation technology and queuing theory to determine the construction time for concrete dams , progress reports from VDI Zeitschriften 55, 1980

literature

• Klaus Stiglat : Civil engineers and their work , Ernst and Son 2004, p. 216

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