ArchiDesign Timber Talks - Ario Ceccotti

On Monday, 24 April, ArchiDesign Timber Talks '22-23 will host Ario Ceccotti.
Dr. Ario Ceccotti is a civil engineer who pioneered timber engineering in Italy. As a researcher at the University of Florence, he has focused on the structural performance of timber buildings since the early 1980s. While serving as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Venice, he was appointed Director of the IVALSA-CNR Trees and Timber Institute, a position he held until 2013. There, he sought ways to enhance the value of wood in construction through new wood-based products such as CLT and hybrid components.

Dr. Ceccotti was Chair of the 2010 World Conference on Timber Engineering and served as a member of the drafting panel for the ENV versions of Eurocode 5 ("Timber Structures") and Eurocode 8 ("Seismic Design of Structures"). He was a visiting professor at EPFL, Lausanne and UBC, Vancouver. As a visiting scientist at the Forintek Laboratory in Canada, Dr. Ceccotti initiated the path toward a better understanding of the fundamentals of timber construction in terms of seismic behavior and design, and his work culminated in the remarkable SOFIE test carried out in 2007 on a seven-story CLT building on the shaking table of the NIED Kobe Laboratory in Japan. He is the author/co-author of more than 200 articles and three books, mostly on Timber Engineering.

From September 2018 to July 2021, Dr. Ceccotti served as Visiting Professor of "Timber Engineering" at Boğaziçi University.
Don't miss this valuable event titled 'Earthquake proof resilient timber buildings: the "immediate occupancy" paradigm', moderated by Demet Sürücü.