Description: Dr. Amin Ghafooripour was responsible as the Sr. structural engineer for the Intertechno Company who was the project manager in Italy. Designed the façade as an appurtenant structure to the main structure using seismic design in the high seismic risk area for the Royal Norwegian Embassy building internationally. The façade designed for the certain drift and deflections to minimize the partial damage during an earthquake since it was made of special brick without mortar that was connected to steel frames directly. Thermal expansion was checked to minimize the cracks in the brick. Prepared structural basic design, thermal break specifications, and structural calculation note. Different buildings were designed in that package:

• Chancery building
• Surrounding wall
• Guard house, Technical room (diesel generator room)
• Parking area with 17 ft overhang
• Water reservoir tank building
• Gazebo

The Basic design carried out by STATSBYGG in the Norway .The main feature of building is about prefabrication & modern material design.

Type of order: Structural Basic and Detail Design, site drainage system design.

Owner/Client: Intertechno Company on behalf of the Royal Norwegian Government. STATSBYGG was the government agency and project leader.

Ordered by: Dr,  Afshar Naderi

Lead Engineer: Dr. Amin Ghafooripour

 Project manager: Matteo Lavazza,

Architect: Dr, Afshar Naderi

Structural/Civil Eng.: Dr. Amin Ghafourpoor, Nastaran Ashtari, Heydar Abbasi, Fatemeh Ashtari

Mech. & Elec. Eng.: Dariush Chegini , Mahmoud Nasseri

Supervision/Construction: N.I.A.

Contractor: N.I.A.

Location: Dibaji shomali, Tehran, Iran

Project size: 1500^m2

Construction cost: N.I.A.

Engineering Software: SAP 2000, ETABS, SAFE

Date of project: 2014-15

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