Dott. Ing. Giovanni Solcia
Strutture in acciaio e cemento armato
Progettazione, direzione lavori, collaudi
Ingegneria antisismica
via Pisacane 9 - 20010 Cornaredo  338 6018568  02 9197 1525
E-mail ing.solcia@fastwebnet.it
p.e.c. giovanni.solcia@ingpec.eu
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GIOVANNI SOLCIA
Via Pisacane 9 - 20010 Cornaredo (MI) - Italy
0039 338 6018568
0039 02 9197 1525
g.solcia@sfera.mi.it
italian
04-04-1954
Italian
English
Educational and training
Dates 1973-1979
Qualification awarded Graduate structural engineer
Organization University Politecnico di Milano – Specialisation in Seismic Engineering
Dates 1968-1973
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Qualification awarded Perito industriale edile (1 level engineer)
Organization l’Istituto Tecnico Industriale per Edili “Carlo Bazzi” di Milano
Professional 1981 Milan Order od Engineers Reg. n° 12564
qualifications 1991 Certificate - Steel and concrete structure certification
1996 Certificate - Civil building fire design (n° MI-12564-I-2320)
1997 Certificate - Construction yards safety coordinator (n° CPT-IAL-D-0254)
2010 BOSIET – Basic Offshore Induction and Emergency Training – Reg. 109725
Specialisation courses Automatic structural analysis - Urbino 1980
Offshore structure foundation design - Udine 1980
Material selection for offshore structures – London 1982
Offshore structure design – Castelgandolfo 1983
Lifting devices inspection and tests – Milano 1992
Energy saving in civil buildings – ENEA – Milan Order of Engineer 1994
Fire prevention in civil buildings – Milan Order of Engineer 1996
Construction yard safety coordination – CPT Milano 1997
Project Management – ENI Corporate University 1999
English summer training - Managing the Intern. Context - ENI Corporate University 2001
Consolidamento della personalità del Project Manager – ENI Corporate University 2001
English summer training - Make a Sense of Ambiguity - ENI Corporate University 2002
Professional English Course - Public Speaking – ENI Corporate University 2003
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Dott. Ing. Giovanni Solcia
Strutture in acciaio e cemento armato
Progettazione, direzione lavori, collaudi
Ingegneria antisismica
via Pisacane 9 - 20010 Cornaredo  338 6018568  02 9197 1525
E-mail ing.solcia@fastwebnet.it
p.e.c. giovanni.solcia@ingpec.eu
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2006 onwards
General manager of Sfera srl (offshore structure engineering company)
Independent consultant
Steel and Reinforced Concrete structure design:
Offshore structures; feasibility, basic and detail design
Civil building structures
Special structural analysis:
Blast and fire structural analysis on Oil & Gas plant structures
Dropped object analysis
Strong vibrations
Finite Element analysis:
Steel structure details (jacket complex joints, cast steel details, lifting pad-eye, etc)
Mechanical components (ball valves up to 72” diam., high stressed mechanical
components)
Offshore Structure Construction Engineering and Supervision (yards in Italy, China,
Holland, Arab Emirates, India):
Fabrication sequence
Structure stress checks (subassembly lifting, in yard transportation, load out,
grillage and sea fastening)
Offshore Structure Installation Engineering and Supervision (offshore Italy, Spain, Congo,
etc,)
Piping Stress Analysis
ABB – Sesto S. Giovanni (Italy)
BASIS srl – Milano (Italy)
Comune di Cornaredo – Cornaredo (Italy)
Comune di Rho – Rho (MI)
FRIULCO – Udine (Italy)
HUENNEBECK spa – Turate (CO)
ORSENIGO FLUITEK s.p.a. – Costa di Mazzate (Italy)
PIBIVIESSE srl – Nerviano (Italy)
PERAR spa – Rescaldina (Italy)
ROSETTI MARINO s.p.a. – Ravenna (Italy)
SAIPEM s.p.a. – San Donato Mil., (Italy)
SAIPEM ENERGY INTERNATIONAL s.p.a. – San Donato Mil. (Italy)
SAIPEM ENERGY SERVICIES s.p.a. – San Donato Mil. (Italy)
SAIPEM PORTUGAL COMERCIO MARITIMO lda – Madeira (Portugal)
SAIPEM UK ltd – London (UK)
TECON s.r.l. – Milano (Italy)
1998 - 2006
Structural Engineering Manager
Saipem Energy International s.p.a. - San Donato Milanese (MI) – dedicated engineering
company of Saipem Group, specialised in offshore platform design)
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Progettazione, direzione lavori, collaudi
Ingegneria antisismica
Main activities and
responsibility
Dott. Ing. Giovanni Solcia
via Pisacane 9 - 20010 Cornaredo  338 6018568  02 9197 1525
E-mail ing.solcia@fastwebnet.it
p.e.c. giovanni.solcia@ingpec.eu
Directly responsible of offshore structure department, my competencies were:
Planning of department activities
Organisation of structural department in terms of internal human resources, external
subcontractors, definition of design procedures, definition of design tools
(structural software, 3-D model CAD, etc)
Organisation of structural engineer teams dedicated to various projects
Supervision of structural design developed within the EPCI (Engineer,
Procurement, Construction and Installation) projects
Offshore installation supervision (offshore Italy, Congo, Nigeria, Arab Emirates,
Egypt, etc)
Directly involved in non standard activities such as:
Damaged structure reinforcement design
New technology development
2002 –2004
Project Manager of a specifically generated Consortium dedicated to Sabratha platform
jacket design:
22’000 ton weight to be installed in 188.50 m water depth
140’000 man hours developed in 25 month by a dedicated task force (52 specialists)
Construction supervision – 18 month of design follow up and construction
engineering in INTERMARE SARDA yard
Offshore installation supervision (offshore Lybia)
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doc. n. SolciaGiovanni-curr-a.doc
1986 – 1998
Independent consultant
Civil building structure design
Offshore structures design (steel and reinforced concrete)
Steel form design (bridge and tunnel concrete casting)
Piping stress analysis
Finite Element analysis
CENTODUCATI srl Baretti srl – Desio (MI)
Immobiliare Bertino – Milano
Comune di Bareggio – Bareggio (MI)
PROTTI spa – Cornaredo (MI)
VALVOMECCANICA spa – Nerviano (MI)
Edil Gi.Ti.Bi. – Pero (MI)
Immobiliare degli Olmi – Cornaredo (MI)
ICOMA spa – Cornaredo (MI)
SASP spa – San Donato Mil, (MI)
Cala dei Genovesi spa – Lavagna (GE)
SNAMPROGETTI s.p.a. – San Donato Mil., (Italy )
PIBIVIESSE srl – Nerviano (Italy)
1979 - 1986
Offshore structural engineer
Snamprogetti s.p.a. – San Donato Mil. (MI)
Project Specialist Leader in offshore structure department involved in design activities
associated to EPCI projects:
structural analysis (static, dynamic, seismic, lifting)
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Progettazione, direzione lavori, collaudi
Ingegneria antisismica
Dott. Ing. Giovanni Solcia
via Pisacane 9 - 20010 Cornaredo  338 6018568  02 9197 1525
E-mail ing.solcia@fastwebnet.it
p.e.c. giovanni.solcia@ingpec.eu
detailed design drawings
design specification (material, construction, installation)
construction yard supervision (design follow up, load out analysis, grillage and sea
fastening design, etc.)
offshore installation design and supervision (lifting, free floating, launching, etc)
sea lines design
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Strutture in acciaio e cemento armato
Progettazione, direzione lavori, collaudi
Ingegneria antisismica
Other information
International
rules
Computer skills
and competences
Dott. Ing. Giovanni Solcia
via Pisacane 9 - 20010 Cornaredo  338 6018568  02 9197 1525
E-mail ing.solcia@fastwebnet.it
p.e.c. giovanni.solcia@ingpec.eu
API, AISC, BS, DnV, EEMUA, RINA, AWS, Lloyd’s, Noble Denton
ASTM, ASME
UNI, EN, EUROCODE
General applications – Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Power Point)
Structural program – ANSYS, SACS, SAP2000, NASTRAN, COSMOS
Piping stress analysis – CAESAR II,
CAD and 3D modelling – AUTOCAD, SOLID WORKS, TEKLA
Project management – MS PROJECT
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