Pedro Pacheco (engineer)

Pedro Álvares Ribeiro do Carmo Pacheco (born 7 December 1967) is a Portuguese civil engineer and professor of bridges at the Engineering Faculty of Porto University. He also co-founded BERD, a bridge engineering company. Pacheco is the mentor of the organic prestressing system concept (OPS concept), based on the human muscle, used in bridge engineering worldwide.

He is responsible for the project of more than 500,000 m² of bridge and building structures, project revision of several buildings of relevant importance. He was involved as Project Manager/Consultant or Project Reviewer in Major Projects as Braga Municipal Stadium, Ponte Infante D. Henrique (Bridge with 280m span), and Casa da Música, before 2004. After 2004 involved in several Bridges Projects, Worwilde.

Also, he is a member of GPBE (Portuguese Group of Structural Concrete), (Internacional Association for Shell and Spatial Structures) and IABSE (International Association of Bridges and Structural Engineering). Provided by Wikipedia