Marjan PIPENBAHER

Marjan Pipenbaher is an internationally recognized designer of bridges and other demanding engineering structures. He is a partner and director in the Ponting design office and founder and director of the specialized research and development and consulting company Pipenbaher Consulting Engineers. He is also a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor. His professional and research work is focused primarily on the design and construction of complex engineering structures and bridges with large spans, seismic analysis, CFD analysis, dynamic wind analysis, and testing in wind tunnels. He is the author and designer of numerous bridges both in Slovenia and abroad, including the Črni Kal viaduct, the bridge to Pelješac peninsula in Croatia, several bridges in Turkey, and the largest railway bridge in Israel. He is also one of the authors of the competition-winning design for the new bridge over Budapest’s Danube River.

The Črni Kal viaduct is undoubtedly one of the most demanding brides built in Slovenia. The ramified piers, deep foundation on wells, spans over 140 m place the viaduct both in design and constructional respect among the most demanding structures also worldwide.

1957 Born in Ljubljana, Slovenia

1981 Degree in Civil Engineering, University Maribor

1980 Employed in Gradis engineering office

1991 Founder of Ponting Consulting Engineers

2002 Founder of specialized research and consulting engineering firm, Pipenbaher Consulting Engineers

2000– Guest lecturerer, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Maribor

Important Works

Črni Kal, the largest viaduct in Slovenia (2004) with total length 1065 m, pier heights up to 95 m and maximal span lengths 141 m.

Nissibi (2016) and Komurhan (2020) cable-stayed bridges over Eufrat river in Turkey with total lengths 610 m and 660 m and navigation spans 410 and 380 m.

Pelješac multi-span extradosed cable-stayed bridge in Croatia (under construction) with total length 2404 m and central spans 5 x 285 m.

Selected Awards

1999 ECCS European Award for Steel Structures

2004, 2017 Award of the Slovenian Chamber of Engineers for exceptional engineering achievements

2004 Golden plaquette of the University of Maribor

2017 Award IACIE

2018 Puh award for exceptional achievements

2019 J. Mrak award for inventiveness