Popp & Asociații

Popp & Asociații is a professional services company based in Bucharest, Romania. It provides structural design & assessment, consultancy, retrofitting design, and project management services for all aspects of the built environment either existing or new, including infrastructure works design.

Popp & Asociații
IndustryCivil Engineering, Professional Services
Founded2002
Founderprof. Traian Popp
HeadquartersBucharest, Romania
Key people
Dragoș Marcu, Chief Executive Officer Mădălin Coman, Chief Technical Director
ServicesStructural Design

Structural Assessment

Seismic Retrofit Design

Geotechnical Design

Site Monitoring

Project Management

Construction Project Consulting
Number of employees
75
Websitewww.p-a.ro

General Information

The company was founded in 2002[1] by prof. Traian Popp, a preeminent Romanian senior structural engineer,[2] along with fellow engineering professionals Dragoș Marcu and Mădălin Coman.

Popp & Asociații had its breakthrough projects in 2004, with the structural design of the Charles de Gaulle Plaza office tower[3] and the seismic structural retrofitting of the 110 year old Bucharest Palace of Justice. The Charles de Gaulle Plaza tower site conditions imposed a top-down[4] infrastructure approach for the building's 5 underground levels, the first of its kind in Romania. Equivalent ground-breaking techniques had to be used for the Palace of Justice retrofitting and strengthening as the palace was listed in the 1980s to be demolished in 1990[5] due to irreparable seismic damage following the 1977 earthquake.

The company has continuously evolved thereafter, progressively broadening its expertise and range of services. The Popp & Asociații Group now provides geotechnical engineering services, along with building and site monitoring, on site and laboratory material testing services, research and development and structural design consultancy services.[6]

The Popp & Asociații portfolio spans over a large range of projects, including high-rise office and residential buildings, large-scale commercial centres, deep excavations and historical monuments of national and international importance. Further business includes international consulting contracts for the evaluation of existing buildings to seismic actions, along with research activities for the development of design codes and guides.[7]

Notable Projects

New Structures

Existing Structures Rehabilitation
  • Palace of Justice, Bucharest structural rehabilitation 2004
  • Grand Hotel Boulevard structural rehabilitation, Bucharest 2012
  • Lutheran C.A. Cathedral structural rehabilitation, Sibiu 2013
  • Cărturești Carusel Bookstore structural rehabilitation, Bucharest 2014

Awards
  • The Romanian Structural Design Civil Engineering Association 2015 Awards - Second Place - The Patriarchate's Palace Rehabilitation, Bucharest;
  • The Romanian Structural Design Civil Engineering Association 2015 Awards - Third Place - E.On Romania Head Office building, Târgu Mureș;
  • The Romanian Structural Design Civil Engineering Association 2014 Awards - First Place - Green Court office plaza, Bucharest;
  • The Romanian Structural Design Civil Engineering Association 2012 Awards - First Place - Unicredit Țiriac Bank office building, Bucharest;
  • European Award for Steel Structures 2011 - Development and modernization of the Henri Coandă International Airport, technical and technological solutions in designing the International Departures Terminal;[8]
  • The Romanian Structural Design Civil Engineering Association 2011 Awards - First Place - City Gate Towers office building complex, Bucharest;

References
  1. "POPP&ASOCIATII – Consultanta, expertizare si elaborare de proiecte de rezistenta pentru structuri de constructii". October 2009. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  2. "Personalitati din constructii – Traian Vintila POPP". November 2008. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. "Arhitectura: Cat de profitabil este un zgarie nori?". May 2007. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  4. "Cele mai recente proiecte de construcții prezentate la Contractor 2013". September 2013. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  5. "Palatele Bucureștiului". Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  6. "Revista Construcțiilor 113, Page 10". April 2015. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  7. "Implementarea în practica de proiectare anti-seismică din România a contravântuirilor cu flambaj împiedicat". Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  8. "European Steel Design Awards 2011". Archived from the original on 2013-06-13. Retrieved July 2016. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
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