Joshua Macabuag

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Joshua Macabuag
OccupationEngineer
Engineering career
DisciplineCivil Engineering
Disaster response
AwardsFREng

Joshua Macabuag is a civil engineer, who specialises in disaster response.

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Early life and education

Macabuag studied civil engineering at the University of Oxford. Following his graduation, he worked on a project in South Africa with the charity Engineers Without Borders. [1]

Career

In 2009, Macabuag notably won first prize at the ICE's Graduate and Student Papers competition, for his paper investigating the use of polypropylene straps to earthquake-proof buildings in the country of Nepal. [2]

His expertise in disaster response has led him to provide expertise during a number of major global disasters, including the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, [3] Hurricane Irma and others. [4] In 2018, Macabuag published a study in Geosciences into the effect of debris-induced damage in buildings. [5] Macabuag has also published other studies into modelling vulnerabilities during natural disasters. [6]

In 2021, Macabuag partnered with the World Bank to work as a disaster risk engineering consultant. [7] Macabuag was a keynote speaker at the 14th Brunel International Lecture series, where he discussed disaster response. [8] In 2023, he became a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow. [9]

References

  1. ↑ "Joshua Macabuag in Jozini". CNN. 2007.
  2. ↑ "Macabuag scoops papers award". New Civil Engineer. July 9, 2009.
  3. ↑ "Engineer shares Nepal earthquake experiences". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. May 13, 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Democratisation of Cat Models". University College London. November 3, 2022.
  5. ↑ MacAbuag, Joshua; Rossetto, Tiziana; Ioannou, Ioanna; Eames, Ian (March 2018). "Investigation of the Effect of Debris-Induced Damage for Constructing Tsunami Fragility Curves for Buildings". Geosciences . 8 (4): 117. Bibcode:2018Geosc...8..117M. doi: 10.3390/geosciences8040117 .
  6. ↑ De Bruijn, Jens A.; Daniell, James E.; Pomonis, Antonios; Gunasekera, Rashmin; MacAbuag, Joshua; De Ruiter, Marleen C.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Bloemendaal, Nadia; De Moel, Hans; Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H. (2022). "Using rapid damage observations for Bayesian updating of hurricane vulnerability functions: A case study of Hurricane Dorian using social media". International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 72. Bibcode:2022IJDRR..7202839D. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102839.
  7. ↑ Eliseev, Alex (August 5, 2021). "Engineering Extremes: Connecting engineering and humanity in disaster zones". Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
  8. ↑ "First Brunel Lecture gives global view of infrastructure resilience". New Civil Engineer. 20 October 2022.
  9. ↑ "Dr Joshua Macabuag FREng". Royal Academy of Engineering.


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