Carolina Leguizamon

• Analysed, created FE models, and designed for existing or temporary structures mainly in steel but also with concrete, wood, and aluminium according to the applicable codes. • Designed, drafted, and wrote demolition plans for bridges, buildings, and other structures. • Worked in teams (locally and remotely) and independently creating reports, construction drawings and procedures.

• Designed structural framing for houses and buildings up to five storeys. • Analysed different loading cases depending on the type and use of the construction to optimise the selection of pre-cast concrete members based on weight and cost. • Supervised construction by visual inspection and using rebound hammers to ensure concrete strengths are within the acceptable limits.

• Assisted in the planning process of the two hydropower plants. • Estimated quantity of raw materials needed for the projects, mainly concrete and steel. • Calculated labour costs and construction timeline based on the materials needed for the structures.

Relevant skills: • MATLAB: process, graph, and analyse data • Structural design for fire conditions in wood, concrete, and steel • Advanced structural mechanics considering complex problems such as curved beams, unsymmetrical bending, torsion of circular and non-circular bars, among other cases.

Final Thesis Project Design of a bridge in Taunton, MA, USA with a team of three people. The final package included the bridge structural design considering precast and steel design standards supplemented with: cost estimate, traffic management plan, and construction staging schedule.