François Hennebique was a French engineer who devised the technique of construction with reinforced concrete. He was inspired to work with reinforced concrete by the French inventor Joseph Monier’s tubs and tanks built of concrete reinforced with wire mesh, which he saw at the Paris Exposition of 1867. Hennebique called his system of construction using reinforced concrete béton armé, which means “armed concrete” in French.
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