Concrete Pixels

I’m so glad to be a part of this international concrete expert team for the pioneering generation III+ nuclear power plant project in Olkiluoto, Finland known as the OL3 Project. It is called OL3 being the 3rd Nuclear Power Plant in this island (Olkiluoto). Our team is composed of Dr. Bernd Schnuetgen from Germany. He is a retired professor of Concrete Technology and a real “walking concrete encyclopedia” who is so kind and unselfishly sharing his immense wealth of knowledge to us. Along with him is Jouko Lehtimaeki of Finland who compliments Bernd’s technical knowledge with his more than 30 years of practical experience in concrete. He knows how to perfectly make whatever type of concrete and knows exactly what is wrong when the desired property of the mix is not achieved. Combining the experties of these two fine gentlemen would really make you a top concrete specialist (if you can). Anders Thorin from France just joined us recently trying still to gain the practical side of concrete after learning it in school. He will be with us for about a year then he will go back to complete his engineering degree in France. And yours truly who has just over 15 years of experience in construction in various countries around the world in different capacities as Office Engineer, Site Engineer, TEchnical Chief Engineer, Design Coordinator, Project Manager and Consultant. I have worked with Jouko in the precast yard for the worlds’s longest and widest segmental viaduct in the world, the 55 km Bangna EXpressway in Thailand where we produced around 1800 cubic meters of concrete daily in at least 18 months.