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Alberto Lago is a researcher for CTBUH office in Venice at the IAUV University of Venice, Italy.

He is involved in the research on “A study on the Damping Technologies available for Tall Buildings: Comfort and Safety” sponsored by Bouygues Construction.

His background is in Architectural/Engineering with a bachelor/master degree from the University of Padua. He additionally completed a master in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2011 he obtained a PhD in Seismic/Structural engineering with a thesis entitled “Seismic Design of Structures with Passive Energy Dissipation Systems.” The research focus was on the design of distributed damping devices (mainly viscous and viscoelastic dampers) for structure of different height, as well as, with irregular geometries and double skin façade. He wrote several journal and conference articles as well as, reports on this subject.

After his Phd, he worked for 3 years for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill LLP in San Francisco Office were he was senior engineer in the structural department. He worked in several tall building projects (both in America and Asia), as well the retrofit of existing buildings.

He is an accredited Professional Engineer both in California and in Italy.

In 2014, he started a specialization in computational design and robotics in Architecture at the Institute of Computational Design (ICD) in Stuttgart where is studying on a research based on performative wood in architecture. The studies will terminate in 2015.
Since May 2015, he is fully involved in the research project sponsored by Bouygues on Tall buildings and damping devices with the scope of coordinating the international team of expert that will contribute on this research as well as to coordinate a publication on the topic.

Alberto Lago is a researcher for CTBUH office in Venice at the IAUV University of Venice, Italy.

He is involved in the research on “A study on the Damping Technologies available for Tall Buildings: Comfort and Safety” sponsored by Bouygues Construction.

His background is in Architectural/Engineering with a bachelor/master degree from the University of Padua. He additionally completed a master in Civil Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.

In 2011 he obtained a PhD in Seismic/Structural engineering with a thesis entitled “Seismic Design of Structures with Passive Energy Dissipation Systems.” The research focus was on the design of distributed damping devices (mainly viscous and viscoelastic dampers) for structure of different height, as well as, with irregular geometries and double skin façade. He wrote several journal and conference articles as well as,…

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