Fernando Colom Jover

Background

About Fernando Colom Jover

Passionate about aesthetics and function, clear pillars in his young career, Fernando grew up with an inherit concern about design and imagination, which fits okay with the aesthetic part. But structures and infrastructures need something else. They need to be comprehended. Then appears, he usually says, the functionality, and the non-inherit ability to solve it from an efficient way.During his studies at the University of Alicante, he carried out different temporary exchange programmes and internships along Europe, highlighting his stay in Germany, collaborating on a project about developing concrete structures internally reinforced with composites, instead of steel. His passion and skills have led him to win several contests and awards, as the one in 2015, when he was appointed by ASCE as one of the 10 New Faces of Civil Engineering.Aged 25, he gained his MEng in Civil Engineering and joined Bridges to Prosperity as a Bridge Corps Fellow in Bolivia, to start rising his third pillar: humanitarian aid. It was time to solve essential service problems as a qualified problem-solver. It was time to start building real bridges.Back in Europe, he worked during three and a half years as a structural engineer at the company Degree of Freedom. During those years, he gained experience in the design and development of timber, concrete and steel structures, mainly focusing on concrete bridges and buildings. Half of this period, he was part of the spanish design office team. Then he moved to Norway to join a specific project onsite involving the construction of three bridges and a railway station.Currently he is working as Head of Engineering for the company ECOncrete, providing structural concrete solutions worldwide for responsible marine construction, shaping the paradigm shift from traditional gray maritime-coastal and offshore infrastructure to blue infrastructure, more respectful to marine ecosystems and the environment, with full structural functionallity. In the meantime, he still collaborates with Bridges to Prosperity and Engineers in Action to help with their cause.