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Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš

Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš rather than just read about it. In short: Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš ((1930-04-29)29 April 1930 – (2022-12-13)13 December 2022) was a long-standing construction industry expert, architect and civil engineer, resident of Carnikava and recipient of the Cross of Recognition. He worked in public administration until his death, and at 93 was the oldest working civil engineer in Latvia.

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Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš ((1930-04-29)29 April 1930 – (2022-12-13)13 December 2022) was a long-standing construction industry expert, architect and civil engineer, resident of Carnikava and recipient of the Cross of Recognition. He worked in public administration until his death, and at 93 was the oldest working civil engineer in Latvia.

Biography Born in 1930 in the Kreišmaņu House of Nordeķi Manor in Riga. His father was officer of Latvian army Jānis Augusts Drēziņš, his grandfather was sea captain Jānis Drēziņš. Ilmārs studied in 1938 at the newly opened Riga Viesturs 48th Primary School for the Commander of the Latvian Army in the capital Riga, where during the occupation he founded the Latvian National Boys' Circle. After World War II, he graduated from the Construction Department of the Riga Industrial Polytechnic, beginning his apprenticeship and career as a construction engineer at 16. Student of painter Jūlijs Viļumainis. He was denied studies at the Latvian Academy of Art by the Minister of Culture of the Latvian SSR, Vladimirs Kaupužs. After the war, he lived in Carnikava. He worked in construction planning, leading the project-estimate group of the Riga Workers' Deputies Council Executive Committee's Housing Department, at the design institutes «Remontprojekts», «Komunālprojekts» (Municipal Economy Design Institute), the Latvian City Construction Design Institute, the joint-stock company "Pilsētprojekts". During the Singing Revolution, he joined the Latvian National Independence Movement. After Latvia regained independence, he worked for the company SIA «AIG» (Architectural Research Group), founded from the Cultural Monuments Restoration Design Office of the Latvian SSR Ministry of Culture, the State Real Estate Agency (now state joint-stock company «Valsts nekustamie īpašumi»), the design company «Attīstības projekts», and many private, public, and church organizations, including the Evangelical Lutheran Church Consistory construction company «Arka». He was a member of the Latvian Association of Civil Engineers, founder of the construction organization «Būvzinis». Drēziņš’s «Construction Cost Norms» have been included in the methodology of the Riga Construction College and Riga Technical University programs. He served as chief specialist at the Riga City Council Housing and Environment Department. Since 2013, he was re-certified as an expert in construction project economics, volumes, and estimates.

Public Activity

Drēziņš’s activism in constitutional law received international attention, for example in the Oxford University «Oxford Reports on International Law», and he was involved in the political process, including standing as a candidate for the Riga City Council and the Saeima. He participated in the preservation of the Latvian language and culture, supported family values, and was active in the Christian and Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

Awards Cross of Recognition — Awarded in 2020 for contributions to construction and public service.

References

External links Official profile at Riga City Council [1]()*

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš

In research: Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Ilmārs Reinholds Drēziņš is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1930 births, 2022 deaths, 20th-century civil engineers, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
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