Sybold van Ravesteyn (1889–1983), a civil engineer who graduated from the Delft Polytechnic School in 1912, began his career with Staatsspoorwegen, the Dutch national railway company. From 1918 onward, based in Utrecht in the center of the Netherlands, he assisted architect George W. van Heukelom in the design and construction of the company’s main offices (now the national monument De Inktpot).