Edmond Coignet

Edmond Coignet ( born July 4, 1856 in Ville d'Avray, † 1915 in Paris) was a French engineer, built the first reinforced concrete buildings in Paris.

Edmond Coignet was the son of reinforced concrete pioneer and entrepreneur François Coignet (the reinforced concrete was called by this Concrete Agglomérés ). He studied at the École centrale des arts et manufactures, from which he graduated in 1879. In the 1890s he developed with Napoléon de Tedesco ( 1848-1922 ) design rules for reinforced concrete, which they in 1894 before the Académie des sciences et la Société des Ingénieurs Civils presented. At about the same time also featured Gustav Adolf Wayss and Mathias Koenen ago ( Zentralblatt the building administration in 1886, Monierbroschüre with WAYSS 1887) in Germany and Paul Neumann ( 1890) in Austria calculation approaches. Coignet put his family on building construction and prefabricated reinforced concrete components to ( the company Constructions Edmond Coignet ). Coignet turned his calculation method, first the construction of the aqueduct of Achères and was then reinforced concrete parts involved in the dome of the station of Antwerp, the Adolphe Bridge in Luxembourg and the casino in Biarritz. In Paris, he built some of the first reinforced concrete buildings with architect Jacques Hermant (1855-1930), the Magasin aux Classes Laborieuses in the Rue Saint -Martin in 1899 and the Salle Gaveau in the Rue Saint- Honoré. Until his death he was president of the Chamber of Commerce in Lyon.

Writings

• With Napoléon de Tedesco: You calcul of ouvrages s ciment avec ossature métallique. In: Mémoires de la Société des Ingénieurs Civils de France, 1894, pp. 282-363 ( online ).