Dr. Hugo R. Wainshtok Rivas

Hugo Wainshtok Rivas graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Havana in 1965 and is a renowned Cuban civil engineer, a pioneer in the study of ferrocement in Cuba and a structural designer of important works. The engineer has dedicated his life to teaching and research, mainly from the José Antonio Echeverría Technological University of Havana (Cujae), where he began his teaching career in 1977 and where he was proclaimed Professor Emeritus in 2003 and awarded an Honorary Doctor in 2014.

Throughout his professional career, he has been honored with numerous awards and awards, such as the Cuban Academy of Sciences Award and the National Civil Engineering Award granted by the National Union of Architects and Construction Engineers of Cuba (UNAICC).

Since 1969, Wainshtok Rivas began to carry out the first studies on ferrocement and later began working as a designer and consultant for almost all the ferrocement works that have materialized in Cuba. As a civil engineer, he worked as a structural designer on one of the most important works in Cuba, such as the Malecón y F building, then designed by the architects Antonio Quintana and Alberto Rodríguez Zurribas, and which was conceived as an experimentation project because it was the first construction that was built in that country with sliding molds to concrete structural eardrums.

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Graduated in Civil Engineering, University of Havana, 1965. Master's degree at the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1973. Doctorate in Technical Sciences, Technical University of Postnam, Poland, in 1990.