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Hanns U. Baumann
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As a consulting structural
engineer in Southern California since1961, Hanns U. Baumann has been
personally involved in the development of more than 30 new construction
products, mainly relating to reinforced concrete construction. An inventor of
construction products himself, he has been granted 7 U.S. patents and is
named as co-inventor on 2 additional patents. Beginning in 1960, his Gascon
fiber reinforced lightweight polymer concrete system has been used to
construct homes in 10 countries. As co-founder of Conspray Construction
System, Inc. in 1970, he has pioneered the development of wet shotcrete
technology. In 1992 he won the Construction Innovation Forum's Nova Award for
his invention of the BauGrid® Construction System (B/GCS).
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Baumann Research and
Development Corp., founded by Baumann, has been developing his inventions
since 1986. BauTech, Inc. is currently marketing his inventions under
exclusive license, and is in the process of negotiating with several
prospective licensees in the country of Japan.
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B/GCS was a finalist for the
1996 Civil Engineering Research Foundation (CERF) Charles Pankow Award
presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Baumann has served on the
Board of Directors of the Construction Innovation Forum (CIF) and the Corporate Advisory Board of the
Civil Engineering Research Foundation, and is Chairman of ACI 439G
Reinforcing Steel Committee, Welded Reinforcement Grids Subcommittee, and has
served on the Strategic Development Council of ACI International. He was the Keynote Speaker at CIF’s 1998
Annual Awards banquet, and was a featured speaker at the SEWC in Brazil in
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Hanns can be reached at
(949) 361-0888 or hanns@brdcorp.com
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