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Department of Civil Engineering
University of Sydney, Australia
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University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
University of Western Sydney
University of Wollongong
Biography (from the UNSW Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES), 21 March 2013:
Brian Uy was recently appointed as Professor of Structural Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infrastructure Engineering and Safety (CIES) in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at The University of New South Wales after serving as Professor of Structural Engineering and the Foundation Director of the Institute for Infrastructure Engineering at the University of Western Sydney during 2012. Brian replaces Professor Stephen Foster who has taken up the position of Head of the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at UNSW. Brian was previously Professor and Head of the School of Engineering and the Director of the Civionics Research Centre at the University of Western Sydney from 2007-2011 and was a member of the Australian Council of Engineering Deans; Australian Deans of Built Environment & Design and one of three Australian Members of the Global Engineering Dean's Council during that period. Brian was a member of the Australian Research Council (ARC) College of Experts for Engineering and Environmental Sciences from 2007 - 2009, which provides advice on research funding and excellence to the Australian Government and he recently served on the Selection Advisory Committee for the ARC Australian Laureate Fellowships from 2011-2012. Appointed a Professor of Structural Engineering and Head of the School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering at the University of Wollongong from 2004-2007, he has also held academic and consulting roles atImperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London; National University of Singapore; Ove Arup and Partners (now ARUP); Wholohan Grill and Partners (now WorleyParsons) and Wargon Chapman and Partners (now Hyder). Currently he is Chairman of the Standards Australia Committee BD32 on Composite Structures and a member of BD90 on Bridge Structures which are developing standards on Steel and Composite Structures for buildings and bridges respectively. He has been the Chairman of the Australia Regional Group of the Institution of Structural Engineers since 2012 which represents over 500 members in Australia and 27,000 members worldwide and he serves on its Council and the Sustainable Construction Panel meeting three times per year in London. Brian is a chartered engineer in Australia, the UK and USA and regularly provides higher level consulting advice and certification for major national manufacturing and infrastructure companies and for forensic/expert witness purposes for many of Australia’s leading legal practices. Involved in research in steel-concrete composite structures for over 20 years, Brian has co-authored over 500 publications including over 140 journal articles. Much of this research has been underpinned by competitive grant funding from most of the ARC granting schemes and from industry totalling over $22 million Australian dollars. Brian serves on the editorial boards of eleven international journals for structural engineering and is Chief Editor (Asia-Pacific) for Steel and Composite Structures. He is also a significant contributor to international codes of practice in steel and composite construction and currently serves on the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Task Committee 5 on Composite Construction and the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) –Structural Engineering Institute (SEI), Technical Committee on Composite Construction. Back at his alma mater where he commenced his undergraduate studies in civil engineering some 25 years ago and where he also served on academic staff from 1999-2004.
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Prof. Brian Uy
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