Bridge Safety, Maintenance, Management, Life-Cycle, Resilience and Sustainability

Dr. Joan Ramon CASAS got MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Civil Engineering from Technical University of Catalonia, UPC-BarcelonaTech (Barcelona, Spain). He is Professor of Bridge Engineering and Structural Management in the School of Civil Engineering in Barcelona, UPC-BarcelonaTech (Spain). His areas of expertise are Design, Construction and Management of Bridges, Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) with main focus on Fiber Optic Sensors (FOS), robustness and redundancy of Concrete Structures, and advanced non-destructive techniques in bridge evaluation.
Founder member and Secretary General of IABMAS since 1999. Founder member of EUROSTRUCT and vice-president from 2018 to 2022. He is also member of ACHE, ASCE, IABSE, IALCCE and FIB. Managing Editor for Europe and Associate Editor of the Journal Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, Associate Editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering (ASCE), Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in the Built Environment-Bridge Section, Associate Editor of the Journal Infrastructures and member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Structural Concrete. Author or co-author of 26 books and chapters of books, 140 papers in refereed technical journals including 3 prize winning papers and over 350 communications to international scientific meetings.

Dr. Dan M. FRANGOPOL is the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University. His main research interests are in the development and application of probabilistic and optimization concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in the field of life-cycle engineering of civil and marine structures. He is the founding president of the International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and the International Association for Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). Dr. Frangopol has authored/co-authored 4 books, more than 60 book chapters, and over 450 articles in archival journals including 11 award-winning papers. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering and founding editor of the book series Structures and Infrastructures. Dr. Frangopol is the recipient of several medals, awards, and prizes, from ASCE, IABSE, IASSAR, ISHMII, SAE and other professional organizations, including the Newmark, Freudenthal, Housner, Lin, Khan, Mufti, and Croes Medals, the Ang, Howard, and Moisseiff Awards, the Munro, Noble, Reese, and Wellington Prizes, the Lifetime Achievement Award in Education (OPAL), and the Civil Engineer of the Year Award. He holds 4 honorary doctorates and 14 honorary professorships. Dr. Frangopol is a member of the National Academy of Construction of the United States, a foreign member of the Academy of Europe and the Royal Academy of Belgium, a foreign associate of the Engineering Academy of Japan, an honorary member of the Romanian Academy and the Romanian Academy of Technical Science, and a distinguished member of ASCE.

Dr. Jose TURMO (Spain, 1974) got MSc in Civil Engineer (1998) from University of Cantabria (Santander, Spain) and his PhD (2003) in Construction Engineering from Technical University of Catalonia BarcelonaTech- UPC (Barcelona, Spain). At the moment, he is Professor in the School of Civil Engineering in Barcelona, BarcelonaTech (Spain), where he teaches Construction Engineering and Bridges. His area of expertise is Construction and Maintenance of Concrete Bridges and Structures and Structural System Identification. Topics as different as structural behaviour of externally prestressed concrete bridges, applications of high performance concrete, shear strength of concrete structures, dynamics of cable suspended bridges, structural analysis of bridge construction, structural maintenance or model updating has been addressed by him, as well as improvement of health and safety and environmental issues of bridge construction. He has done several research stays as a postdoc, being appointed as Visiting Faculty at the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (2005), Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, San Diego, USA (2006) and Kwang-Hua Visiting Professor (2010) and High End Foreign Expert (2014-2016) at the Department of Bridge Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.