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Campbell R. Middleton ( ) is the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering at the University of Cambridge, and director of the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering & Technology in the Cambridge Department of Engineering. [1]
He holds a BE (Hons), MSc, DIC, PhD, and CEng, CPEng, FICE, MIE (Aust), and joined the staff at Cambridge in 1989, becoming a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge He previously worked for nearly 10 years in bridge and highway construction and design in Australia and with Arup in London.
The main areas of research are computational collapse analysis, risk and reliability analysis, computer vision for structural evaluation, non-destructive testing and inspection, wireless sensor networks for structural health monitoring, and sustainability evaluation of constructed facilities. He has also been involved in the development of bridge codes of practice and is a specialist bridge consultant to clients in the UK and abroad.
He is Chairman of the |UK Bridge Owners Forum, established in 2000 by representatives of the bridge owning organisations in the UK. He has been awarded the Diploma of the Henry Adams Award of the Institution of Structural Engineers (1999) and the Telford Premium Award (1999) and Telford Gold Medal (2010) from the Institution of Civil Engineers. He was elected Fellow of the Transport Research Foundation in 2005.
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