Aas-Jakobsen – a brief presentation Company name Dr.Ing. A. Aas-Jakobsen AS Aas-Jakobsen is an independent consulting company for Address civil and structural engineering established in 1937. The Lilleakerveien 4 company is a member of FIDIC through the Norwegian N-0283 Oslo, Norway Association of Consulting Engineers. The company is owned by the employees with a 95.5% share. The company Employees Ph.D: 3 works in the following areas: M.Sc: 78 - Bridges B.Sc:25 - Industrial and office buildings Others:9 - Marine structures Ownership in following - Road and railway projects companies: - Supervision Aas-Jakobsen Trondheim AS - Rehabilitation/instrumentation ViaNova Plan og Trafikk AS ViaNova Systems AS - Information Technology Development Geovita AS Electronova AS The company has its home office in Oslo Norway, and NCE Thailand have more than 115 employees here, whereof about 60 working with bridge structures or similar. Brief presentation, cont’d Andreas Aas-Jakobsen, the founder of the company, throughout the eighties and nineties culminating with took his doctorate in Berlin, Germany 1936, on shell design of the Triangular Link Suspension bridges in the theory, and became a pioneer on practical and late nineties. Along we have also had roles in long span economical use of such structures in Norway. After bridges abroad, like Stonecutters Bridge, My Thuan working the first decades with industrial buildings, the Bridge, Hardanger suspension bridge and Padma bridge building in Norway increased rapidly through bridge. the 1960s. Aas-Jakobsen has designed more than 60 concrete bridges using the free cantilevered Aas-Jakobsen has also strongly contributed to the construction method in Norway. One of the latest, the development and accomplishment of the more than 15 Raftsundet Bridge, has a main span of 298 m, which very large concrete shell structure platforms and steel was a world record at the time of completion in 1998. structures placed in the North Sea to extract oil and gas. The work has comprised design, verification and Two other pioneer projects were Helgeland Bridge and supervision. This technology has also been used in Nordhordland Bridge. The Helgeland Bridge, a cable other reference projects like William R. Bennett stayed bridge of 425 m main span, is designed for very Floating Bridge, Bjørvika Immersed Tunnel and severe weather condition. For this Aas-Jakobsen was Tjuvholmen Submerged Substructure. given an award for outstanding structures by FIP in Washington DC 1994. Aas-Jakobsen’s design of In the recent years Aas-Jakobsen has been strongly Nordhordland Bridge, a 1248 m floating bridge ending involved in the traffic system development in the Oslo in a cable-stayed bridge was given the European Award region, involving large roads projects, subway projects for Outstanding steel structures 1995. and the new main airport of Norway, Gardermoen. In this connection we work together with the transport The participation in large scale suspension bridges planning company ViaNova and the geotechnical became an important part of the Bridge Department company Geovita. .