Reliability, resilience and robustness in structural engineering design - September 2025
Date & Time

25 September 2025
10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location

Online

Price

Member early booking: £295 + VAT
Member: £335 + VAT
Standard: £445 + VAT

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Reliability, resilience and robustness in structural engineering design - September 2025

Reliability, resilience and robustness in structural engineering design - September 2025

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Date & Time

25 September 2025
10:00 - 17:30 BST

Location

Online

Price

Member early booking: £295 + VAT
Member: £335 + VAT
Standard: £445 + VAT

Early booking discount

Available until one month prior

This interactive online course shares current state-of-the-art frameworks for the adoption of resilience-based design in professional practice, demonstrating advantages compared to a traditional prescriptive design and providing examples of how they benefit the client.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, you should be able to:

  • Differentiate between reliability, risk and resilience when quantifying structural performance

  • Appreciate the role of robustness and resilience in the design of structures

  • Understand the role of aleatory and epistemic uncertainties in the design of structures

  • Decide which design situations are best suited for the adoption of performance-based approaches, and justify their use in practice

  • Break down the application of performance-based design into sequential stages; from assessing the relevant hazards to estimating the resulting losses

  • Recommend a range of structural and non-structural solutions to enhance resilience and robustness

Intended for

  • Graduate engineer

  • Mid-career engineer

  • Senior engineer/Team leader/Manager

  • Academic/Researcher

  • Other built environment professionals and engineers

Trainers

Caroline Field

Prof. Caroline Field is a Partner at PA Consulting and leads their resilience business. Caroline has a background in asset and infrastructure resilience with over 26 years of professional experience including 12 years in counter terrorism, blast mitigation and physical security and 7 years in earthquake engineering and dynamics.

Andre Jesus

Dr Andre Jesus is a Chartered Structural Engineer (Portugal) and a lecturer in structural engineering at Loughborough University, UK. Andre has research expertise in structural dynamics, including structural health monitoring of bridges and timber buildings, human-structure interaction effects with application for modal testing, and modelling of railway infrastructure under high-speed trains passage. One common aspect throughout his research is the use of advanced probabilistic methods to describe different sources of uncertainty, which inevitably undermine data interpretation and damage detection strategies.

Contact

Email - [email protected]

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