Emeritus Profess Grant Steven joins the Board of Clean Tech startup company Intresto – developers of the world first Rocksolver software

Emeritus Professor Grant Steven of Sydney University has joined the Board of the Clean Tech software firm Intresto.

Intresto is developing the Rocksolver software application which uses optimisation algorithms to solve the jigsaw puzzle when building with irregular-shaped blocks of unprocessed rock. By taking on the hard part of building with rock rubble Rocksolver removes the obstacle to using this resource of local, cheap and sustainable building material.

Emeritus Professor Steven is a world renowned authority in structural and computational mechanics with over 40 years experience in this field and works closely with industry on many large scale engineering projects. He is also the founder of Strand7 one of the world’s leading Finite Element Analysis software companies with about 4000 commercial users.

Emeritus Professor Steven said:

“I am delighted to join the board of Intresto, the inventors of Rocksolver. Rocksolver is a highly innovative solution to the optimum arranging of irregular shaped tiles for paving and rocks for walls, it is bound for commercial success, and I am looking forward to helping to enable this”.

Intresto founder Malcolm Lambert commented:

“Having Emeritus Professor Steven on board is a big bonus for us. He will add significantly to the technical competence of the company and is highly regarded in industry and he has started up his own software company in the past. We are delighted he has chosen to join the Board”.

In May 2013 Intresto released the first beta version of Rocksolver for optimising the layout of irregular-shaped stone pavers. See http://malbertsinvention.wordpress.com/ for details.