Claude Bogacz
Mechanics and Process Engineer
Profile
58 years old
Seniority : 7 years, associate
English
- Curtain wall systems
- SGS – PFG (Structural glazing system – Bolted or Point-fixed glass Facades)
- Metal, Wood and PVC joinery
- Glazing
- Insulating weatherboard and cladding
- Air and water tightness
- Thermal and aeraulics calculation
- Hygro-thermal calculation
- Thermo-mechanical calculation of glass
- Structural calculation
- Acoustics
Specialist engineering building envelopes – Former member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the certifying body of glazing CEKAL
Education
Engineer – Engineering School of the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts – Mechanics – Structures – Process
EICNAM – Paris III
DEST (Master) – Mechanical Structures and Systems
National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts – Paris III
DU – (Bachelor) – Engineering Facades – University of Evry
DUT – Mechanical Engineering and Process – University of Evry
Professional background
Façades Design Ingénierie – Studies office / Engineering Consultancy – Rooflights, Lightweight Facade and joinery
Founder Manager – Engineer
Façades 2000 – Studies office / Engineering Consultancy – Rooflights, Lightweight Facade and joinery
Director – Engineer
Coplan Ingénierie – Studies office / Engineering Consultancy – All trades
Agency Director
CEBTP
Regional Director « Ile-de-France » – Studies & Projects
Directeur of Building Envelops Division
ATM (Subsidiary of CEBTP)
Director of the company – Manufacture and sale of test equipment for the building envelope
Rinaldi Structal
Studies and structural Engineer
Permasteelisa
Studies and structural Engineer
CFEM Façades
Studies and structural Engineer
Key areas of expertise
Engineering of the building envelope
- Structural calculations
- Analysis and calculations of thermal performances
- Analysis and calculations of acoustic performances
- Digital mockup and BIM process
Glazing
- Annealed or tempered glass unit breakage
- Failures on point-fixed Structural Glazing systems
- Delamination issues with laminated glass
- Breakage and fogging of Insulating Glass Units (IGU)
- Failure of structural components made of tempered glass
- Pollutions and optical distortions of reflective glass under chemical or mechanical attacks
Curtain Walling
- Air and water leakages
- Faulty mechanical resistance
- Failures on weatherboarding / cladding
- Failures on building roofing made of ribbed steel or aluminium sheets
- Calculation – Building lightweight envelopes – Thermal, Structural, Acoustical
Joinery
- Air and water leakages
- Malfunctions of side hung and swinging window frames
- Window deformations under structural movements
- Water leakages of glass rooflights
Horizontal Sealing
- Roof terraces leakages (flawed execution or design, accidental puncture, plantation effects)
- Metal-framed rooflights leakages