Huesker success in Milton Vargas Award

Huesker is celebrating victory in this year’s Milton Vargas Award. Now in its second year and honouring the pioneer of soil mechanics in Brazil who died in May 2011, the Milton Vargas Award is an initiative of the Brazilian magazine Fundações and Obras Geotécnicas. It recognises the work of professionals responsible for planning, design and implementation of large construction projects, whose works have already featured prominently in the magazine. Technical director Dr. Dimiter Alexiew (Huesker Germany); r
December 14, 2012 Read time: 2 mins
235 Huesker is celebrating victory in this year’s Milton Vargas Award.

Now in its second year and honouring the pioneer of soil mechanics in Brazil who died in May 2011, the Milton Vargas Award is an initiative of the Brazilian magazine Fundações and Obras Geotécnicas. It recognises the work of professionals responsible for planning, design and implementation of large construction projects, whose works have already featured prominently in the magazine.

Technical director Dr. Dimiter Alexiew (Huesker Germany); represented at the Award night by the firm’s German export manager, Peter Terhechte; engineering manager Cristina Schmidt (Huesker Brazil); and business manager and engineer at ThyssenKrupp Brazil, Jan Selders together won the Foundations category of the Award for their technical paper ‘Foundation of a stockyard with geotextile encased columns and horizontal reinforcements on soft soil areas’.

In the Geosynthetics category, the winning article was ‘Geogrid Reinforced Slope with Green Facing’. The article was written by Paulo Brugger (engineer at Brugger Engineering), Fernando Andrade (engineer at Agrogeo Engineering), both partners of Huesker, and Cristina Schmidt, who was again recognised for her good engineering work.

The Award category winners were announced at a special ceremony in São Paulo in the presence of hundreds of professional engineers representing Brazilian geotechnical consultants and companies.

In order to compete for the award, works must have been published in the current year or the previous year to the date of the award. The articles and awards are selected by a committee made up of representatives from the Brazilian Association of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ABMS), the Brazilian Association of Foundations Engineering and Geotechnics (ABEF), the Brazilian Association of Geosynthetics (IGS Brazil), the Brazilian Association of Engineering Geology and Environment (ABGE), the Brazilian Association of Consulting Projects and Geotechnical Engineering (ABEG), also including the Brazilian Tunnelling Committee (CBT) and the Brazilian Committee on Dams (CBDB).

The selection is based on the importance of the general technical contribution, on its relevance and on the level of the technical publication as well.

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Advances in geosynthetics boost soil stabilisation
    May 3, 2012
    Special fabrics are often used in civil engineering works, including highways, to make soil stronger Geosynthetics have been used in roadway construction for thousands of years with natural materials being mixed with soil to improve quality and stability. While today's products are much more sophisticated, the principles are the same. For example, when used with soil, geotextiles (permeable fabrics) can filter, separate, reinforce, protect, or drain, and they are often made from polypropylene or polyester,
    Read More
  • Advances in geosynthetics boost soil stabilisation
    March 13, 2012
    Special fabrics are often used in civil engineering works, including highways, to make soil stronger Geosynthetics have been used in roadway construction for thousands of years with natural materials being mixed with soil to improve quality and stability. While today's products are much more sophisticated, the principles are the same. For example, when used with soil, geotextiles (permeable fabrics) can filter, separate, reinforce, protect, or drain, and they are often made from polypropylene or polyester,
    Read More
  • São Paulo State Highway Authority wins the Evonik Road Safety Award 2018
    April 23, 2019
    For more than 50 years, Evonik – a world leader in specialty chemicals and the inventor of MMA cold plastic road markings - has been at the forefront of efforts to improve road safety and disseminate best practices in the field On 18th December 2018, Evonik bestowed the 3rd edition of the “Evonik Road Safety Award” in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. The Road Safety Award is designed to support sustainable road safety initiatives, as part of the company’s corporate and social responsibility. It acknowle
    Read More
  • VIDEO: Huesker explains “Interaction flexibility”
    August 4, 2017
    Huesker, an earthworks and foundation designer for roads and pavements, has posted a short video explaining “interaction flexibility”, a new term for geogrid-reinforced structures. Interaction flexibility is an important technical term, as important as tensile strength and tensile stiffness, to secure the quality of a geogrid reinforced construction, explains the engineering team at Huesker which has its head office in Gescher, Germany.
    Read More

Highlighted Content