https://www.portugalbuilds.org/files/original/6c99e29b2aa34776ee6cf3ad7c6f4e0c.JPG 4cf8575d3339c72b0e8cc672017c1695 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Júlio Ferry Borges Portrait Subject The topic of the resource Individual Actor, Technician, Civil Engineer, Júlio Ferry Borges Description An account of the resource Júlio Ferry Borges Portrait Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource PT BUILDS Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived "Prémio Ferry Borges 2010" (2010). In EngenhariaCivil.Com, [online]. Available at: https://www.engenhariacivil.com/premio-ferry-borges-2010 [Accessed 04 Mar. 2020]. 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Birth Date 1922 Birthplace Lisboa Death Date 1995 Training Institution Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) Occupation Civil Engineer Teacher Biographical Text Júlio Ferry do Espírito Santo Borges was born in Lisbon in 1922. He was a well-known Portuguese civil engineer. Borges completed Civil Engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico in 1945, with the highest grade of his year. Before finishing the bachelor, in 1943, he entered the Civil Engineering Studies Center, where he would work until 1947. In the year of his graduation, he began his academic career, having been an assistant until 1947 in the subject of “General Mathematics” at Instituto Superior Técnico. In 1948 he went to Sweden to do an internship at the Stockholm Cement and Concrete Institute, returning in 1949. In 1954 he presented the famous dissertation on Dimensioning Structures to LNEC (Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil), in order to obtain the researcher degree. However, less than a year later, in 1955 he was appointed member of the Superior Council for Public Works. His biggest mark in this position concerns his participation in the Commissions for the preparation of the various safety regulations in the construction of structures, namely the Regulamento de Solicitações em Edifícios e Pontes (RSEP), the Regulamento de Segurança e Ações para Estruturas de Edifícios e Pontes (RSA), the Regulamento de Estruturas de Betão Armado (REBA) and the Regulamento de Estruturas de Betão Armado e Pré-Esforçado (REBAB). At LNEC, in 1962, he created the country's first Scientific Calculation Center, promoting also the study and debate on this theme at the international symposiums. The structural analysis methods he developed were used by the designers of the Sobre do Tejo Bridge, having himself been a consultant to the Office of the same bridge. He was the author of several projects of renowned structures, namely the buildings of the fishing port, the Palace of Justice, the National Theater and the headquarters of Banco Espírito Santo. His work Structural Safety, whose first edition is from 1968, is a major reference in this nuclear field of structural engineering, adopted in several foreign universities. The work Earthquake Engineering, published in 1969, in collaboration with LNEC Researcher Artur Ravara, is also considered a turning point in this field of engineering. He defended the need for a safety culture and the application of social sciences to the construction sector, suggesting that the ethical component of engineering should be considered as a new area of research, particularly in its relation to the protection of the environment, the conservation of natural resources, the equitable distribution of costs, benefits and risks, and the application of technological advances. His publication Human Motivations, Ethics and Justice translates specifically this message. He was a rapporteur and chairman of the Joint Committee on Structural Safety since its founding in 1972, and later became honorary chairman. He chaired the Euro-International Concrete Committee from 1977 to 1983, having also been elected as an honorary president. He was a founding member of several Portuguese scientific associations. He served as chairman of the Board of the Portuguese Society of Seismic Engineering, of the Portuguese Pre-Stressed Group, currently the Portuguese Group of Structural Concrete, and of the Portuguese Group of Structural Engineering, currently the Portuguese Association of Structural Engineering. He was a corresponding member of the Lisbon Science Academy, an honorary member of the American Concrete Institute (ACI), an honorary member of the Italian Association for Reinforced and Pre-stressed Concrete (AICAP), and a rapporteur of the Joint Structural Safety Committee (JCSS), since its creation in 1972 until 1985, having subsequently been elected president of the plenary and honorary president. He was director and vice president of the International Association of Seismic Engineering, he was vice president of the European Association of Seismic Engineering, he was a member of the Governing Board and the Programming Commission of the International Construction Council, he was member of the General Council of the International Meeting of Materials and Structures Testing Laboratories, he was vice-president of the International Federation of Pre-stressed, and he was vice-president of I Commission of the International Association of Bridges and Structures, having also been appointed an honorary member of this Association in 1989. He was President of the Portuguese Section of the Societé des Ingénieurs et Scientifiques of France. He worked as an UNESCO consultant on seismic engineering and general disaster protection policy. He was a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Structures, the International Journal of Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics and the Structural Safety Magazine. From 1986 to 1990 he was a member of the Commission for the Development of Science and Technology in Europe and the Commission of the European Communities. In 1990 he was appointed national representative on the Technical Committee TC1 - Mechanical Resistance and Stability of Constructions. A year later, finally, he was elected president of the Portuguese Commission CT115 - Structural Eurocodes. Both nationally and internationally, he was conductor of several chairs. Abroad, he was the conductor of Seismic Engineering at the International Institute of Seismic Engineering, in Bergamo, between 1967 and 1971, of Structural Safety at the University of Berkeley in 1970 and at the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo in 1975, and of Structural Safety Applied to Seismic Engineering at the International Institute of Seismology and Seismic Engineering in Tokyo in 1971. In 1982 he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris-Causa by the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. In 1989 he would be awarded the same degree again by the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and, finally, in 1991, he was Doctor Honoris-Causa by the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto. He was Full Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, where he taught the chairs of Structural Reliability, Quality Assurance and Actions in Structures. Júlio Ferry Borges was awarded the Order of Santiago da Espada in Portugal, the Order of Cruzeiro do Sul in Brazil and the National Order of Merit in France. He won the Merit prize of the International Association of Bridges and Structures in 1985. In 1995, posthumously, he was awarded the decoration of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante D. Henrique. In 1998 the Portuguese Group of Structural Engineering created the “Ferry Borges Award”. Júlio Ferry Borges passed away in September 1995. Bibliography "Júlio Ferry Borges". In Doutores Honoris Causa pela Universidade do Porto, [online]. Available at: https://sigarra.up.pt/up/pt/web_base.gera_pagina?p_pagina=doutores%20honoris%20causa%20pela%20u.porto%20-%20j%c3%balio%20ferry%20borges [Accessed 28 Jan. 2020]. CATARINO, J., Baptista, A. (2017). "Vida e Obra de Júlio Ferry do Espírito Santo Borges". In Construir Magazine, [online]. 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