PEDELTA
Juan A. Sobrino is an accomplished civil engineer and academic with extensive experience in leadership and education. As the founder and CEO of Pedelta Group since 1994, Juan A. Sobrino has been responsible for operations in North America, overseeing the expansion into the USA in 2009 and Canada in 2012. Additionally, Juan A. Sobrino served as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2011 to 2015, teaching a course on Conceptual Bridge Design, and held the position of associate professor at the Polytechnical University of Catalonia from 1995 to 2013, focusing on Strength of Materials and Structural Analyses. Academic credentials include a PhD and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, obtained between 1984 and 1994.
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PEDELTA
Established in 1994, Pedelta is a specialty bridge and structural engineering consultancy firm that has designed over 1,500 bridges around the world with a team of passionate staff working from six offices in Toronto, Miami, Barcelona, Bogota, Lima and Abuja. The firm has a proven record of outstanding accomplishments in design-build, P3 and conventional construction projects, where our engineers continually integrated international research on the most sophisticated analysis, design and construction techniques and methodologies with developing new ideas to provide elegant and cost-effective solutions that can be both constructed and maintained to the satisfaction of our clients. As a result, several of our bridge projects have received international recognition. Pedelta is a worldwide leader in the application of advanced materials in bridges such as stainless steel and Glass-Fiber Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) to reduce life-cycle cost, and has marked several records such as World First Vehicular Stainless Steel Bridge - Cala Galdana Bridge, 2004; Longest Pedestrian Bridge made out of standard GFRP pultruded profiles -Lleida Pedestrian Bridge, 2001; First hybrid structures made out of stainless-steel and GFRP -Zumaia (2007), Sant Fruitos (2007) and Vilafant Pedestrian Bridges (2011), amongst others. Pedelta’s engineers are frequent speakers in technical conferences and top-universities on the application of advanced materials and bridge aesthetics.