Born in Sarthe, France in1946, he graduated from Ecole Polytechnic in 1967 and from the National School of Bridges and Roads in 1970. He became a Doctor Engineer of the pierre at Marie curie University, Paris in 1973. Between 1974 and 1994 he worked for three years in Tunisia and then in SETRA, the technical Service at the Highway Administration in France. In 1980, he became head of the concrete Bridge Division and seven years later he became the head of the bridge division of SETRA
He contributed to some technical evolutions, such as external pre-stressing, cable-stayed
Bridges and composite structures. He received the IABSE Prize in 1983, the Guerite Silver
Medal of the British Section of the Ingenieurs et Scientifique de France in 1985, the Practical Construction Award of the American Concrete Institute in 1992, the Reed and Mallik Medal of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1994 and the George S. Richardson Medal of the Engineers’ Society of Western Pennsylvania in 1995. In 1999, he was the first recipient of the Fritz Leonhardt Prize and the Gustave Magnel Gold Medal. In 2002, he received the Award for the Italian Prefabrication Industry (CTE). He has been Secretary, Secretary General and Executive Vice-President of the French Association for Construction for over twenty years (1974–1997) and President of the International Federation of the Pre-stressed Concrete since September 1996, until merging with the Euro-International Committee of Concrete in May 1998, to constitute the International Federation for Structural Concrete, fib, of which he has been elected President; he became Honorary President of fib at the end of his term in September 2000.

Michel Virlogeux took an important part in the development of external prestressing and of composite and cable-stayed bridges, and in this lecture he talks about few of this large scale projects and the role of engineers as designers and creators.

Architect's Website: www.michelvirlogeuxconsultant.com

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