(*) Ramón Montecinos Concha. Ingeniero Civil de la Universidad de Chile; consultor en Ingeniería Estructural y Diseño Sismorresistente; profesor de Estructuras en la Universidad de Chile. Ha participado en la mayoría de los grandes proyectos industriales y mineros desarrollados en el país en los últimos 30 años. / Civil Engineer, University of Chile; Structural Engineering and Seismic-Resistant Design consultant; professor of Structures at the University of Chile. Has participated in most of the large industrial and mining industry projects developed in the country in the past 30 years. / 智利大学土木工程师；结构工程和 抗震设计顾问；智利大学结构系教授。在过去的三十年里，曾参与国家大量 大型工业和矿业项目。
A few considerations
若干考虑
In the field of Chilean Structural Engineering dedicated to industrial buildings there are a couple of facts that stand out and need to be considered. There are two realities: the so-called big industry, related to the production of copper, wood pulp and other commodities, and the small or medium industry, which focuses on processed products. The big industry is practically unknown. It is located outside urban areas, in less visible sectors: in the north, far into the mountains, and in the central or coastal regions planted with forests from which pulp is produced. Generally there is no architecture, but its investments are in the hundreds or thousands of millions of dollars. By contrast, small and medium industries are located near or within urban centers, sometimes with outstanding examples of architecture. The installations have good maintenance and in comparison to the big industry there is less degradation over time, although their investments are substantially lower. In fact, the sum of all the amounts involved in building small and medium industries in one year is only a fraction of the investment for a single recent wood pulp installation or new mining development by the state-owned Codelco (Corporación del Cobre). In relation to the great powers, in Chile neither the big or medium industry is actually big. In fact, the small is very small, the medium is small and the big industry is big only in a few cases. In no way we have examples that stand out too much either for their size or their complexity. From a personal perspective, the interesting thing is to share our way of thinking, approaching and designing structures considering the small community of Chilean specialized engineers: no more than 150 qualified for heavy structures and possibly no more than 20 or 30 with expertise and knowledge for “all events". A group with really modest forces that has designed many structures, many industries and many mines; that can stand as equals with designers and equipment suppliers worldwide, and that has succeeded in having their work processes and design ideas welcomed and respected.
在智利结构工程这个领域，关于工业建筑有几个事实需要考虑 到。 有两点事实：所谓的大产业，关于铜产业、木浆和其它商品；还有 中小产业，主要是加工产品。 大产业几乎不为人知。位置在城区外，很难看到：在北边的山区， 中部和海滨地区森林是木浆的生产地。总体上讲这里没有建筑，但 是其投资额高达上亿美元。 相反，中小产业在城区附近，有时是建筑的最佳例证。设备得到 好的保养，与大产业相比随着时间推移毁坏的情况很少，但总体 来说投资额较低。 事实上，一年内建设中小产业的总额仅是最近某一个木浆设备投资 的一小部分，或国有企业Codelco新矿业发展的一部分。 与强国相比，智利的大中型产业都不算大。实际上，小产业太小， 中型产业比较小，大型产业仅在某几个方面比较大。不论是规模还 是精密程度我们都没有特别的竞争力。 从我个人来看，有意思的是分享我们的思考方式，设计结构，考虑 到智利专业工程师这个小群体：重型结构方面不到150人具有专业资 格，只有20到30个人具备“全能”的专业知识。这样一个人数有限 的群体设计了很多结构、工业和矿业；他们可以与世界各国的设计 师和设备供应商相媲美，他们的工作和设计理念成功地得到了大家 的欢迎与尊重。
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