Profile

Professional affiliations

  • Member of CLC/CIC RAAC Response Group
  • Member of IStructE RAAC Group
  • Member of Chartered Institute of Building (MCIOB)
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Fellow of Institute of Concrete Technology (FICT)
  • UKCRIC Management Board (UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities)
  • UK Constructing Excellence National Members' steering group
  • Graduate Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers 

Awards

  • ICE Research Award: Low Carbon Sprayed Concrete
  • Teaching Innovation Award (TIA), Loughborough University, “Extended Induction for Engagement and Inclusivity”
  • LU Enterprise Partnership Award with AECOM - Highly Commended.
  • Winner of ICE Howard Award Medal for Best Paper in Journal. Optimising construction with SCC, ICE Construction Materials, https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/19968http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/coma.14.00025
  • Short-listed for The Engineer Collaborate to Innovate award, Academic Innovator category
  • ICE (Institution of Civil Engineering) Merit Awards, ‘Short-listed’ in Research and Studies Category, “RCA concrete”
  • Teaching Stars Award for CVD014 Loughborough University
  • ACE Engineering Excellence Awards, shortlisted in the Research, Studies and Consulting Advisory
  • ICE (Institution of Civil Engineering) Merit Awards, ‘Highly Commended’ in Research and Studies Category, “Corrosion Management and Repair of Reinforced Concrete Structures”
  • Winner of CIOB-ARCOM CRI Innovation and Sustainability paper award

External activities

  • University of Cambridge Visiting Lecturer, Construction Engineering Masters Programme, Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, Department of Engineering.
  • Leeds University External Examiner, MSc Advanced Concrete Technology
  • Imperial College London, MSc External Examiner
  • Editorial Panel ‘Case Studies in Construction Materials’ (2014 – present)
  • International selection committee for Tenure Lecturer in Project and Construction Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
  • Judge for British Precast Innovation Awards
  • IoM3 Cementitious Materials Group (Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining)
  • ECI Innovation and Technology Direction Group

Key collaborators

My research and enterprise activities are conducted with a range of academic and stakeholder partners, including:

  • RAAC: NHS, CPT, Lucidion, Sweco, IA Connects
  • Cambridge, UCL, Imperial, Leeds etc
  • UKCRIC
  • HS2
  • Concrete Society, 
  • Institute of Concrete Technology
  • IStructE
  • Concrete Centre
  • Buildoffsite
  • ICE
  • BSI
  • Arup
  • Highways England
  • Aecom
  • BRE
  • CIOB
  • ECI
  • IoM3
  • British Precast