Francisco Laurito

Experience

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  GAIA

  Jul 2007 - Oct 2007

  Project Engineer

  Assistant Engineer in the construction and elaboration of budgets of wastewater treatment plants for agricultural industries. In this job the major task was to redesigned and build an already approved wastewater treatment plant contract for an agricultural industry without varying the biochemical process in the design, but reducing the total costs, during the rainy season in Zarchí, Costa Rica.Inventiveness and financial engineering were develop within this work, due to the urgent of reducing overall costs of the project but keeping the quality of the final product. The treatment plant was a Twin continuous stirred tank reactor, which initially was conceived to be built with high resistance poured concrete in walls and slabs, finished with polished concrete.When considering Costa Rican high seismic activity value engineering never should be focused on reducing reinforcement, therefore the reduction of costs was focused on reducing the construction period and rearranging the walls configuration. Covering of the construction site with low costs large plastic roof was improved and the poured walls were changed to fully filled masonry blocks keeping the original reinforcement. With these modifications a reduction of a 25% of the original cost was achieved.http://www.gaiacr.com/ Show less

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  Constructora Laurito S.A.

  Oct 2007 - Jan 2009

  Project Engineer

  Project engineer in construction development in Guanacaste, Costa Rica during the real estate boom period in 2007.In this job my tasks were to guarantee that the construction process of 16 residential condominiums, 16 stores was achieved on time and fulfilling the quality standards claimed by the clients. I was in charge of total costs control of the process and budget, payment control of subcontractors and material supply management. Given the high seismic activity of Costa Rica a construction of this kind is regulated by the Costa Rican Seismic Design Code, therefore practical expertise was developed on top of the theoretical knowledge acquired in my civil engineering major degree.Management of large groups of workers was a must in this project. Most of the workers employed were unqualified manpower with low scholarity therefore trying to transmit ideas and concepts in an easy mode was a common activity every day. As a result my communication skills were improved.Due to the short amount of time available to conclude the project, coordination with subcontractors, stock retailers and electric and mechanical engineers was crucial leading to a constant improvement of teamworking. Show less

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  Instituto Costarricense de Acueductos y Alcantarillados

  Mar 2009 - Apr 2012

  Civil Engineer

  Engineer in charge of the operation and maintenance of potable water systems.Tasks: Supervision and optimization of rapid filtration drinking water treatment plant in a location prone to suffer from river flooding. A rapid filtration plant was built in 2007 in Jaco. It started operation in 2008 but the river where the uptake was sited constantly experience flash and river floodings this caused interruptions in the service and create a danger environment for the public servants who worked there. By implementing a series of small anticipation ponds built with gross river bed materials scaled up along the river; flooding of the uptake was avoided.The result was the implemention of a preventive maintenance program of the water uptake and a more constant production of the treatment plant.Water supply planning and managing the issuing of licenses for water extraction: a balance between high real estate demand for water rights and hydraulic system capacities was achieved "During the post American Real estate blooming period in Costa Rica. Optimization of the water production was obtained by implementing simple changes in the operation of the Drinking water treatment plant-Pumping station scheme. Hydraulic modeling was used to identify critical pressure zones and optimise pressure control driving into higher economic revenues and greater hydraulic capacityResults were a better monitoring of water demand for urban projects and the coordination of water safety plans.Maintainance of main pipelines and underground water well-pumping systems in the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. Member of the Central Pacific Coast Emergency Committee as representant of the Institute of Aqueducts and Sewers. Some of the tasks assigned were coordination and management of the population facing the cyclones and floods. Evaluation damages suffered in public infrastructure. Execution of response strategies in order to reestablish the water and sanitation services during floods. Show less

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  Technical University of Denmark

  Aug 2012 - Sept 2014

  Candidate in MSc Environmental Engineering

  I enrolled in DTU for the MSc Environmental Engineering program to improve my knowledge in the environmental field. In DTU I have been introduced to State of the Art modelling tools of water environments mostly developed by MIKE powered by DHI.MSc Thesis is specialized in modelling of urban water floods due to cloudbursts and Climate Change in the City of Copenhagen in collaboration with Rambøll A/S . Evaluating adaptation strategies to buffer these future expected damages.

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  DHI

  Sept 2014 - now

  Urban Water modelling Engineer at MIKE Powered by DHI, Hydraulic Modelling of urban sewer systems and water distribution networks by means of MIKE URBAN. Responsible of technical support in collection system and water distribution modelling at DHI Denmark for MIKE URBAN and MIKE URBAN-Flood.Product quality assurance responsible and software design user experience and GUI architecture representative for the further development of MIKE by DHI technologies. Urban Flood Modelling by means of MIKE Flood and MIKE 21. DHI “The Academy” trainer on Urban Flood modeling for consultants in Denmark, Finland and Mexico. Conceptualizing and development team member of the LID user tool for water sensitive design within MIKE URBAN 2016Development team member of the MIKE 1D Engine consolidation project, which aims to create a newer, more powerful numerical engine for computational hydraulics in MIKE URBAN. Show less

  • Consultant Engineer

    Oct 2019 - now

  • MIKE Powered by DHI Software Support Engineer | Urban flood modelling trainer

    Sept 2014 - Sept 2019