2021 —PresentAmsterdam
Associate Director, Structures
Haltbau Ingenieurs
Head of the timber group: eleven engineers, a portfolio averaging €140M of construction value per year. Own the technical position on every CLT scheme the office takes on.
- Led the structure for De Vlothaven, a 14-storey CLT-and-concrete hybrid — the tallest timber residential block completed in the Netherlands to date.
- Wrote the office's connection standard for screwed CLT wall panels, now referenced by two other Dutch practices.
- Cut average embodied carbon across the portfolio from 312 to 198 kgCO₂e/m².
14 storeys
11 reports
−37% kgCO₂e/m²
2017 — 20214 yrsRotterdam
Senior Structural Engineer
Van Osch & Partners
Delivered mid-rise mixed-use frames across the Rijnmond region, moving the practice from its default concrete flat-slab toward hybrid timber floors.
- Structural lead on the Katendrecht Market Hall — 38 m clear-span glulam trusses, delivered eight weeks ahead of programme.
- Introduced vibration-serviceability testing on completed timber floors; findings fed back into the design model.
38 m clear span
9 schemes
2014 — 20173 yrsZürich
Structural Engineer
Brunnhofer Tragwerk AG
Alpine practice with a heavy retrofit workload. Assessed and strengthened 1960s concrete stock against revised Swiss seismic provisions.
- Non-linear pushover assessment of 22 school buildings for the Canton of Graubünden.
- Detailed the timber roof replacement for the Chur ice rink, a 46 m three-pin glulam arch.
2011 — 20143 yrsDelft
Graduate Engineer
Rijkswaterstaat, Bridges Division
Inspection and load-rating of movable steel bridges on the national waterway network. Learned to read a structure from its corrosion pattern before opening a model.
2010 — 20111 yrDelft
Research Assistant, Timber Structures
TU Delft, Faculty of CEG
Laboratory testing of self-tapping screw withdrawal in beech LVL; contributed data to two conference papers.