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The Leonard Awards first gala dinner in Geneva . The Eiffel Tower received the Leonard Award

With a Unique honorary havard decerned to the Eiffel Tower, the Leonard awarded the Viaduc de Millau in France, the highest in the World for its specific technology, the Shanghai opera and the Principality of Monaco for its unique World invention of a fixed wall of water.

Sylvain Yeatman Eiffel

Honorary posthume Leonard Award to Gustave Eiffel who built the tower which bears his name and which was for thirty years the highest structure on earth. The trophy is received by his Great Grandson, Mr Sylvain Yeatman Eiffel, Chairman of the Association of the descendants of Gustave Eiffel

Alexander Garvin

Among the highlights of the last Immotech Forum in Geneva, were interventions by Alexander Garvin, representing the City of New York as one of the key actors in planning the new design for the reconstruction of the lower Manhattan and WTC towers.

 

People joining: speakers, honorary guests, sponsors. Last prestigious event created by Wapic is the Leonard Awards, dedicated to buildings and art works which includes the most performant technologies.

Paul Acker, head of research at Lafarge, co sponsor with WAPIC of the Leonard Awards, giving the trophee to Jean-Claude Mutel, deputy General Manager of Eiffage, developer of the Viaduc de Millau.


Dr Dereck Gaer, Project management Director CGI Germany, Mr Rene Bouchet, Technical Counsellor for public works, Principality of Monaco, and Dr Ali Mutlu Koyluoglu, Kinetik, Istambul.


Mr Jacques Meyer, owner of the Hotel Beau Rivage Geneva, Mr Syed S.Haider, Chairman of Century 21 of USA in karachi, and Mrs Yeatman Eiffel during the Leonard Award Ceremony


Architect Jean- Marie Charpentier, awarded for the Shanghai Opera Theater with Thierry Bogaert, Nicole Paquin Desbiolles, President of Wapic and Paul Acker.


Mrs Lorette Coen, journalist Le Temps, Alexander Garvin, and Nicole Paquin Desbiolles


Christoph Eisenhardt, Executive Vice-President of Siemens Building Technologies Security Systems, stressed the crucial importance of security in both workplaces and public buildings during Immotech forum


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