News & Events
27 May 2021
The results of the foto-contest I organized for my 2nd year BSc Architecture students are published
https://padlet.com/alperkanyilmaz/risultati-foto-contest-2021-modulo-strutture-dfoe0dp9fk1zwi25
News & Events
26 October 2021
The MSc thesis of Aleksei Kondratenko resulted in an elegant journal article (4 rounds of review in Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering). It is about Automated warehouses, which keep the goods arriving us from Amazon and more. Massive racking structures, reaching 40 m height + 100 m in plan, using often cold formed steel.
Workshop
23 February 2022
EU-RFCS DISSIPABLE final workshop: Alper coordinated this 4 year research project composed of pilot-scale shaking table tests, hybrid numerical/ physical simulations, life cycle economic and environmental analysis of #earthquake-resistant & dissipative #steel structures: In this workshop, the results will be presented to the worlwide engineering community, putting “#sustainability” on the table of seismic design.
News & Events
10 June 2021
End of 2nd year architectural & structural design studio 2021/2022: Conceptual design of steel, timber, and reinforced concrete structures, and life cycle analysis to quantify the embodied CO2 of the structural systems. In cooperation with Sandra Maglio and Giovanni Brambilla.
News & Events
8 September 2022
We kicked-off EU-RFCS CONSTRUCTADD project in Milano, aiming to place the Metal Additive Manufacturing in the mainstream of Architecture, Engineering and Construction industry by the year 2026.
Partnership covers the whole-supply chain of AEC industry:
Politecnico di Milano (coordinator), RWTH Aachen University, Università di Pisa, Prima
News & Events
22 December 2022
End of 1st semester 2022/2023. Steel, timber and reinforced concrete structures course completed. Done together with 170 great students and expert collaborators Alberto Piaia, Manuel Quagliaroli, Aleksei Kondratenko, Matteo Bocchi.
News & Events
1 February 2023
3D Printing Industry published an article with Alper Kanyilmaz on how ConstructAdd project is aiming to increase resource efficiency in the automobile and construction sectors through the use of 3D-printed steels:
You can read the full article at the link.
News & Events
9 February 2023
ConstructAdd 2nd coordination meeting in Madrid took place in Madrid, Spain.
Project coordinator Alper Kanyilmaz from the Politecnico di Milano, Gorka Iglesias from ArcelorMittal Europe Tubular Products and Sastry Y Kandukuri from Det Norske Veritas (DNV-GL) share their thoughts on ConstructAdd at the six month mark.
ConstructAdd coordination meeting, Madrid, Spain
News & Events
6 March 2023
Alper Kanyilmaz and José Oliveira Pedro (Senior Bridge Engineer in GRID International Consulting Engineers, Portugal) discussed the pain points of the structural design that can be addressed with the opportunities of metal 3d printing.
News & Events
21-22 September 2023
3rd coordination meeting of ConstructAdd project took place in Turin, Italy. ConstructAdd is a EU-RFCS project coordinated by Alper Kanyilmaz, and it aims to place the Metal Additive Manufacturing in the mainstream of Architecture Engineering, Construction (AEC), and Automotive industries. It will be achieved by developing design guidelines and processes for sustainable steel building and electric car