Invited talks & keynotes

Selected talks

Titles are listed first; abstracts can be added later as the archive fills out.

  • Bridge traffic loading, reliability and structural safety · ANSHM Annual WorkshopNewcastle, Australia · 2025
  • Probabilistic modelling of bridge traffic loading · Joint Committee on Structural Safety WorkshopShanghai, China · 2025
  • Weigh-in-motion data for bridge assessment · International Society for Weigh-in-Motion WorkshopBrisbane, Australia · 2025
  • Reliability methods for existing bridges under traffic loading · Int. Conf. on Structural Safety & Reliability (ICOSSAR)Los Angeles, USA · 2025
  • Risk and reliability in bridge assessment · Int. Symposium on Reliability Engineering & Risk Management (ISRERM)Hefei, China · 2024
  • Bridge loading, assessment and reliability · 33rd Dresdner BrueckenbausymposiumDresden, Germany · 2024
  • Structures, safety and professional responsibility · Joe O'Donovan Memorial Lecture, Civil Engineering Research in IrelandGalway, Ireland · 2024
  • Structural safety in practice · IStructE Australia Regional GroupSydney, Australia · 2024
  • Learning from structural failures · Forensic Engineering Society of AustraliaMelbourne, Australia · 2024
  • Bridge safety and engineering practice · Engineers Ireland, Australian & New Zealand DivisionOnline · 2024
  • Bridge traffic loading and reliability assessment · Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) BombayMumbai, India · 2023
  • Reliability-based bridge assessment and monitoring · Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU)Trondheim, Norway · 2023
  • Probabilistic bridge assessment under traffic loading · 19th International Probabilistic WorkshopStellenbosch, South Africa · 2022
  • Bridge maintenance and rehabilitation through reliability · IStructE Bridge Maintenance & Rehabilitation ConferenceLondon, UK · 2022
  • Bridge traffic loading: measurement, modelling and reliability · EuroStruct LiveTalkOnline · 2020
  • Reliability assessment of bridges · SAICE/IStructE South Africa Joint DivisionJohannesburg, South Africa · 2019
  • Structural safety and bridge assessment · IStructE Ireland GroupIreland · 2019
  • Quality control in bridge assessment · COST Action TU1406 WorkshopWroclaw, Poland · 2018
  • Structural health monitoring for bridge management · VicRoads Structural Health Monitoring WorkshopMelbourne, Australia · 2018
  • Bridge assessment and heavy vehicle loading · VicRoads Structures ConferenceWodonga, Australia · 2015
  • Bridge traffic loading and structural reliability · Warwick UniversityUnited Kingdom · 2014
  • Existing bridge assessment under traffic loading · Engineers AustraliaMelbourne, Australia · 2014
  • Bridge traffic loading and simulation · TEAM FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training NetworkParis, France · 2010

Standards & guidelines

Codes and guidance

  • AS5100 Part 2: Design Loads · Chair, BD-090-022024-
  • AS5100 Bridge Design Standard · Member, BD-0902024-
  • AS5100 Parts 5 (Concrete) & 7 (Assessment) · Committee member, amendments & commentary2020-
  • JCSS Probabilistic Model Code · Appendix for bridge traffic loading2020-
  • AustRoads AP-R617-20 · Bridge assessment beyond the AS5100 deterministic methodology2018-2020

Leadership

Professional roles

  • Chair & Director — CROSS-AUS, Confidential Reporting on Structural Safety, Australasia · Director 2018- · Chair 2024-
  • Board Member & Trustee — Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) · 2025-2027
  • Chair of the Board — Civil Engineering Risk & Reliability Association (CERRA) · 2023-2027
  • Past Chair, Australia Regional Group — Institution of Structural Engineers · 2022-2024
  • Member — Joint Committee on Structural Safety (JCSS), incl. the probabilistic modelling of bridge traffic loading · 2020-
  • Permanent Committee Delegate for Australia — International Association for Bridge & Structural Engineering (IABSE) · 2018-
  • Executive Committee — Australian Network for Structural Health Monitoring (ANSHM) · 2020-
  • Secretary & Co-Founder, Australia Group — International Association for Bridge Maintenance & Safety (IABMAS) · 2017-

Editorial & reviewing

Journal work

  • Associate Editor · ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering2018-
  • Editorial Board · Structural Safety2017-

Reviewer for 40+ international journals, typically around 20 papers per year.

Conference organisation

Selected roles

  • Chair & Host · ICASP15, 15th Int. Conf. on Applications of Statistics & Probability in Civil EngineeringMelbourne · 2027
  • Chair · Joint CROSS x JCSS Workshop on Structural SafetyLondon · 2025
  • Co-Editor & ISC Secretary · IABMAS, 9th Int. Conf. on Bridge Maintenance, Safety & ManagementMelbourne · 2018