Giovanni Plizzari is a Professor of Structural Design at the University of Brescia (Italy), where is head of the laboratory for testing materials and structures. He is member of RILEM TAC and chair of Cluster C (Structural performance and Design). He also chairs fib Task Groups T2.5 (Bond in concrete) and T1.8 (Concrete Industrial Floors) and is member of fib Commission 1 and 2. He is also member of ACI Committees 408, 544 and 562 and of WG2 (research) of the international Tunneling Association. He is responsible for Chapter 18 (Bond in concrete) of fib Model Code 2020. He organized several international workshops and conferences. He is currently Deputy Editor in Chief of the international journal Materials and Structures. He is also Deputy President of CTE, the Italian Association for Precast Structures. The main research interest of Giovanni Plizzari concern the structural application of Fibre Reinforced Concrete, concrete industrial floors, bond in concrete and concrete with recycled aggregates. He is Author of more than 160 papers in international journals.

Daria Kovaleva is an architect and a Research Associate at the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart. After her graduation in 2009 she worked in various architectural offices, including Werner Sobek Group, and in 2014 joined ILEK team in the field of functionally graded concrete structures. Her research within SPP 2187 is focusing on design and fabrication of water-soluble sand formwork system for complex concrete structures. The progress of Design and Detailing working group she will present together with SPP colleagues Zlata Tosic, Martin Rettinger and Lothar Kolbeck.