Konstantina Vasilopoulou

Casualty Risk Engineer (Construction) at AXA XL, a global insurance and reinsurance company.

Worked as Causalty Risk Engineer (Construction) at AXA XL.

Key responsibilities:
• Lead the design (from feasibility to detailed) for the civil aspects of energy infrastructure projects.
• Develop and manage design scopes, specifications, risk registers and technical assurance
documentation supporting long-term asset decisions.
• Coordinate designs, manage resources and liaise with suppliers, CAD team, key stakeholders and the engineering disciplines.

• Managed multi-disciplinary projects and controlled the resources and budgets for the a variety of infrastructure schemes.
• Provided commercial oversight with budget tracking, risk management and programme control.
• Chaired progress/constructability meetings, manageded stakeholders interface and maintained ongoing communication with the Contractor and Project Managers.
• Undertook civil/st

• Produced structural design for rail & energy sectors, review engineering documentation including drawings, calculations, reports and specifications in accordance with the relevant Standards.
• Developed and managed designs from feasibility to detailed design undertaking surveys, inspections, risk and structural assessments for railway and energy projects.
• Undertook environmental impact asse

• Design of civil engineering structures and bridges for the maintenance framework of Network Rail.
• Civil design for substations and HV cable routes including temporary works.
• Good understanding of relevant design standards (e.g. Eurocodes, DMRB, Network Rail Standards).
• Experience on structrural design software (TEDDS, Tekla Structural Designer, CADS Suite, MIDAS).
• Experience in wor

• As part of R&D Team contributed to the development of new construction products.
• Provided technical support to Structural Concrete and Masonry Departments and undertook the design of balcony connectors, punching shear reinforcement, MBT couplers, windposts and lintels for major residential projects.
• Developed company’s software for punching shear (shearfix) and balcony connectors and ens

• Conducted seismic risk/vulnerability assessment of state buildings.
• Carried out inspections to predict the seismic performance of buildings and identify the buildings at risk.
• Attended seminars/workshops for natural disasters preparedness & response and gained understanding of strategic earthquake planning and protection.

IAESTE – Exchange programme
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Laboratory of Steel Structures

• Developed spreadsheets with calculations for steel joints.
• Modelled steel connections using the ANSYS software.
• Conducted comparative study of experimental data with results of FEM analysis.
• Became familiar with the design process at MTA Engineering Sp.zo.o. Company reviewing

Pursued a Master of Engineering in Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens.

Completed a Master of Science in Structural Engineering at the University of Sheffield.