Konstantinos Paschalidis

1. Surname:              Paschalidis

2. Name:                    Konstantinos

3. Date of birth:      16/01/1977

4. Nationality:        GREEK

5. Address (phone/fax/e-mail):

Balkan Center, 9th km Thess-Thermis, P.O. Box 60882, Thermi 57001, (+302310332032/ kostas@penelis.com)

6.Education:

Institutions: University of Thessaloniki / Engineering School
Date:

From (month/year)

To (month/year)

1999

September 1994

July 1999

Degree: Degree in Civil Engineering
Institutions: University of Thessaloniki / Engineering School
Date:

From (month/year)

To (month/year)

June 2010

September 1999

June 2010

Degree: Phd , Dr. Civil Engineer

7. Language skills

(On a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the highest):

Language Level Passive Spoken Written
Greek Mother tongue 5 5 5
English Excellent 5 5 5
German Adequate 3 3 2
French Basic 2 2

8. Membership of professional bodies:

Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece

Member of the Assosiation of Civil Engineers of Greece

9. Other skills (e.g. computer literacy, etc.):

Standard computer literacy used for the design and management of technical projects (SAP2000, ETABS2000, STRAD2005, UDEC, FLAC3D, AUTOCAD, MS OFFICE, MS ACCESS, PRIMAVERA, etc).

10. Present position:

Head of Structural Analysis and Geotechnics at Penelis Consulting Enginers SA

11. Years of professional experience:

Eighteen (18)

12. Key qualifications:

His key qualifications include the analysis, design and rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete structures, Reinforced and Unreinforced Masonry, Steel structures, Underground Structures (tunnels, caverns, etc) and Geotechnical Engineering problems (including rock mechanics).

13. Specific experience in similar projects:

Country Date:   from   (month/year) to (month/year) Name and brief description of the project
Athens, Greece 09.2001-05.2005 Rehabilitation and seismic upgrade of Army Pension Fund Building in Athens and conversion to Shopping Center (ATTICA) and Office Center.

6 stories, 1-3 basements, 80.000m², built in the ‘30s micropiles foundation, composite steel structures, preservation of façades, design and supervision

Thessaloniki, Greece 06.2003-09.2003 Preliminary design for the rehabilitation of the Palais des Sports dome (40m wide, 7m high, 12cm thick).

Concrete dome structure covering an indoor basketball court constructed in the ‘60s, upgrading to accommodate new EM systems, review and strengthening according to modern codes.

Athens, Greece 11.2004-02.2006 Rehabilitation and seismic upgrade of “Pallas” and “Aliki” theatres in the Athens

Complete renovation and upgrade of two theaters built in the ‘50s on top of each other and surrounded by the Army Pension Fund buildings (in contact at 3 sides). New roof & flytower construction and stage enlargement in a confined premise, design for new loads due to modern theatre demands. Design and supervision.

Bucharest, Romania 04.2006-02.2008 Design of a 15 storey RC building with 4 basements and top-down construction at the centre of Bucharest to serve as the Headquarters of Piraeus Bank SA.

Perimeter diaphragm walls, top-down method of construction, raft slab on piles, suspended glass façades

Zagreb, Croatia 07.2006-05.2007 Vrbani III Shopping Center, international Consultant (Bluehouse)

5 stories – 4 basements, 50.000m² area, 7.300m² 15m deep excavation, perimeter diaphragm wall construction supported by fixed end ground anchors

Athens, Greece 12.2012-06.2015 Starvros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Design of Ferrocement Canopy and structural analysis of concrete buildings
Ptolemaida, Greece 07.2016-todate New PPC Boiler House in Ptolemaida V

Verification and Redesign

14. Professional experience:

Date: from  (month/year) to (month/year) 07.96 – 09.96

07.97 – 09.97

Place GREECE
Company/organization TEMAK SA
Position Civil engineering position for the following projects:

 

New double railway track  between Korinos and Aiginio.

Egnatia highway – section Polimilos – Kozani

Job description Quality control, surveying, lab testing.
Date: from  (month/year) to (month/year) 09.1999 – today
Place GREECE
Company/organization
Position Freelance Civil Engineer

 

Design of more than 600 new single- and multi-story R/C, masonry and wooden buildings.

Rehabilitation and strengthening of more than 50 single- and multi-story R/C and masonry buildings.

Geotechnical evaluation and report of more than 70 project sites.

Job description Design, review, supervision and contruction, Structural & Geotechnical Civil Engineering fields
Date: from  (month/year) to (month/year) 05.2001 – today
Place Various
Company/organization Penelis Consulting Engineers SA
Position Civil engineering position for various projects, of which the following are noted:

 

Rehabilitation and seismic upgrade of Army Pension Fund Building in Athens and conversion to Shopping (ATTICA) and Office Center (6 stories, 1-3 basements, 80.000m²)

Rehabilitation and seismic upgrade of “Pallas” and “Aliki” theatres in the Athens

Structural and seismic upgrading of the LINK building at the             Hellinicon Olympic Infrastructure.

Design of the rehabilitation of the damaged highway concrete bridge over Gallikos river, between Thessaloniki & Kilkis.

Structural design of the Technical Support building at the new 424 General Army Hospital in Thessaloniki (15.000m² slabs on columns).

Preliminary structural design of the seismic upgrading of Mamatsio General Hospital in Kozani, involving both concrete and masonry buildings.

Preliminary structural design of a pretensioned road bridge at “Ano Komi” at Kozani.

Structural design of a pretensioned road bridge at “Drosero” at Kozani.

Structural design of the new “Spiliopouleio” building in Athens (8 stories – 10 basements).

Design of a 15 storey RC building with 4 basements and top-down construction at the centre of Bucharest to serve as the Headquarters of Piraeus Bank SA (diaphragm walls, piles).

International Consultant for the Victoria Center Office building owned by Bluehouse, Bucharest, Romania.

Vrbani III Shopping Center, international Consultant (Bluehouse), Zagreb, Croatia. Perimeter diaphragm wall construction supported by fixed end ground anchors

Redesign of the main flood duct of the city of Korinthos (650m³/s), with cut-and-cover sections, composite decks, pile walls, micropiles and earth anchors in a densely populated area.

Hirsch arcade conversion to a shopping center with composite structures. 6-story building (parking garage 2 topmost floors) in the center of Thessaloniki, 2.500m² in plan, preservation of façades, use of grouting and micropiles for the foundation.

Job description Analysis & design of the aforementioned structural and geotechnical projects.
Date: from  (month/year) to (month/year) 05.2003 – today
Place Various
Company/organization GEODESIGN
Position Civil engineering position for various projects, of which the following are noted:

 

DUBLIN PORT ACCESS TUNNEL-VEHICLE LAY-BY AND CROSSOVER ENLARGEMENTS (Ireland) 3D-geotechnical design of multiple openings on a 17m wide tunnel lining under less than 5m of overburden.

A353 / A354 HIGHWAY AND BINCOMBE RAIL TUNNEL INTERFACE (Great Britain)

Stability analysis of a 120 year old railway tunnel

GERRARDS CROSS TUNNEL (Great Britain)

Independent expert review of the collapse of a cut & cover railway tunnel and proposal of modifications to the design – Technical consultant of the contractor and his litigation team

DUBLIN METRO – O’ CONNELL BRIDGE STOP (Ireland)

Design of an underground metro station with adjoining intersections.

Job description Analysis & design of the aforementioned structural and geotechnical projects.

15. Publications and seminars:

  • Paschalidis, K.P. (2011). Integrated modelling and design of reinforced concrete linings for tunnels, 12th International Congress on Rock Mechanics.
  • Penelis Gr.G., Papanikolaou V., Paschalidis K.P. (2008). Evaluation of the nonlinear behaviour of a 15 storey torsionally sensitive building designed according to EC2 & EC8, 5th European workshop on the seismic behaviour of irregular and complex structures, Catania, Italy, September 2008, pp. 101 114.
  • Penelis G.Gr., Penelis Gr.G., Papanikolaou, V.K. & Paschalidis K.P. (2008). Applicability studies of the New Greek Building Rehabilitation Code (ΚΑΝΕΠΕ), 3rd National Symposium of Earthquake Engineering, Article 1944, Athens, 2008.
  • Penelis G.Gr., Penelis Gr.G., Paschalidis K.P. (2003). The Structural Upgrading Of The Army Pension Fund (A.P.F.) Building In Athens, FIB Symposium “Concrete Structures in Seismic Regions”, Athens, 2003.
  • Penelis Gr.G., Paschalidis K.P. (2003). “Seismic strengthening of the link building at the Hellinikon Olympic Installation”, 14th Greek Concrete Conference, ΤCG, Κos, 2003
  • George Gr.Penelis, Gregory G.Penelis, Konstantinos P. Paschalidis, Vasileios Papanikolaou and Elias Paraskevopoulos (2014), T-H Dynamic and Nonlinear Static Analysis for The PV Canopy of The New Athens Opera House, 2nd European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Istanbul, 2014
  • Gregory G. Penelis (2015), T-H Dynamic and Nonlinear Static Analysis For The Ferrocement Canopy of The New Athens Opera House, SEAOC Convention Proceedings, Seattle, 2015
  • Gregory Penelis, Spyridon Tsoukandas, Tryfon Topintzis, Konstantinos Paschalidis (2016), Design of a 135m Tower in India with the use of preconstruction, 17th Greek Concrete Conference, Thessaloniki, 2016
  • George Gr.Penelis, Gregory G.Penelis, Elias Paraskevopoulos, Sotiria Stefanidou (2016), Restoration of the listed monumental building called (RED HOUSE) in Thessaloniki, 17th Greek Concrete Conference, Thessaloniki, 2016
  • George Gr.Penelis, Gregory G.Penelis, Konstantinos P. Paschalidis, Vasileios Papanikolaou and Elias Paraskevopoulos (2016), T-H Dynamic and Nonlinear Static Analysis for The PV Canopy of The New Athens Opera House, 17th Greek Concrete Conference, Thessaloniki, 2016
  • George Gr.Penelis, Gregory G.Penelis, Konstantinos P. Paschalidis (2016), Dimensioning of the Ferrocement structure of the Athens Opera House Canopy, 17th Greek Concrete Conference, Thessaloniki, 2016
  • George Gr.Penelis, Gregory G.Penelis, Konstantinos P. Paschalidis (2016), Experimental Verification of the design for the Ferrocement Canopy of the Athens Opera House, 17th Greek Concrete Conference, Thessaloniki, 2016
  • Gregory Penelis , Elias Paraskevopoulos , Sotiria Stefanidou , Konstantinos Paschalidis , Structural Verification of The New PPC Boiler House In Ptolemaida V, 16th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Thessaloniki, 2018