Laurent Ney IASS 2024 Keynote Presentation

Laurent Ney held a keynote presentation during IASS 2024 at ETH Zurich, moderated by Giulia Boller. Laurent Ney is a structural engineer and architect trained in Belgium and Germany. Since 1995, he has been a lecturer in structural engineering at several Belgian universities. In 1996 he founded the engineering firm Ney & Partners in Brussels and Luxemburg. Today, the main office is in Brussels, with satellite offices in Namur, Luxembourg, Tokyo, Bordeaux, Delft and Hanoi. Laurent’s approach is characterised by research-based design: optimisation and form-finding. This integration and optimisation of structural elements aims to overcome the classic hierarchic assembly of constructive solutions, and as a result leads to a design that is wholly integral: architecture, structure and context are addressed in one overall proposal. Each design is not a matter of signature or of form, but it is the result of a series of questions that he responds to. Laurent combines practical and theoretical knowledge. He published several books on his design approach and is a regular keynote speaker at international engineering conferences as IABSE, IASS and Footbridge. IASS 2024: https://iass2024.org/web/ IASS: https://iass-structures.org NCCR DFAB: https://www.dfab.ch