Beyond BAFF
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Beyond BAFF
#20 Designing World's Lightest and Most Innovative Bridges with Povilas Dabrila
This episode features a conversation with Povilas Dabrila, who is currently working in two roles: first, he is a PhD student and a lecturer at Vilnius Tech University, where he teaches about steel structures. Secondly, he is developing a virtual construction company where their team consults companies and creates and validates bridge, highway, and infrastructure construction sequences and approaches.
At the podcast we talk about:
- What does research in lightweight cable structures mean?
- Challenges in Infrastructure and Construction?
- What could modular construction in bridges look like?
- Working at the University while building his business - what does it look like?
- What made him learn to play the Banjo?
- Povilas shares his reflection on the BAFF Experience.
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