Diederik Veenendaal
Summum Engineering
structural engineer
Diederik Veenendaal
Diederik is a structural engineer, passionate about innovative and complex structural designs, as well as parametric modelling, computational optimisation and sustainability.
He studied civil engineering at the University of Technology in Delft in the Netherlands, and started his professional career at Witteveen+Bos engineering consultants, working on the downtown subway stations of the North/South subway line in Amsterdam and the largest tensioned membrane roof in the Netherlands, ice skating arena De Scheg in Deventer. He carried out his doctoral research on flexibly formed concrete shell structures at the Block Research Group, also serving as co-editor for the book ‘Shell Structures for Architecture’ and as project coordinator for research & innovation unit NEST HiLo. He obtained his doctorate from the Institute of Technology in Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland in 2017.
Since then, he owns and operates design and engineering company, Summum Engineering in Rotterdam, that focuses on lightweight and spatial structures; digital fabrication; natural, biobased and earthen materials; as well as building renovations and reclaimed, circular materials.