André Coyne

André Coyne ( born February 10, 1891 in Paris, † July 21, 1960 in Neuilly -sur -Seine ) was a French engineer who built many large dams. He was a specialist in arch dams, of which he designed 55 pieces, most of them in France. But Coyne also built 32 dams of a different design. In 1947 he founded the engineering firm Coyne & Bellier. He invented and developed, among other things, the ski jump ski jump -shaped spillway for dams.

Curriculum vitae

André Coyne studied at the École Polytechnique and later at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. 1920 he worked as an engineer in Brest, where he oversaw the tender for the construction of the Albert Louppe Bridge. After some time in the Dordogne Coyne participated from 1929 to 1935 at the dam of Marèges. After the work is completed, he brought about in the course of eleven years with other the establishment of the dam of L' Aigle.

After his work was completed there in 1946, he founded the following year, the engineering firm André Coyne et Bellier Jean. 1953 Coyne finally received recognition of his services to the Grand prix d'architecture.

André Coyne died on July 21, 1960 a few months after the collapse of the dam built by him Malpasset on 2 December 1959.

Structures ( selection)

• Dam Santa Luzia (1942 )
• Venda Nova Dam (1951 )
• Dam of Castelo do Bode (1951 )
• Dam Salamonde (1953 )
• Malpasset Dam (1952-1954) ( arch dam, collapsed in 1959 )
• Migöelou Dam ( Barrage de Migöelou ) ( 1958)
• Kariba Dam ( 1959) ( arch dam )
• Roselend Dam (1955-1962) (combined pillars and arch dam )
• Daniel Johnson dam, Canada (1961-1968) (multiple - arch dam )