David Collings BSc CEng FICE

David is a Designer, Writer, Researcher and Teacher. A Chartered Engineer with over 30 years experience of global Civil Engineering.

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David has extensive experience of Civil Engineering projects across the world. His experience covers a wide range of work including; bridges, tunnels, buildings, towers, silos, reservoirs, water and sewage schemes petrochemical works and power stations. His main interest is in the design and construction of bridges. He has been responsible for many steel-concrete composite bridges in the UK and joined Robert Benaim Associates (RBA) to develop its steel bridges expertise. While working with Robert he learned the art of prestressed concrete design, and was responsible for the BCI Award winning UK-Bangladesh friendship Bridge, a 1200m long multiple 110m span concrete cantilever bridge over the Meghna river in Bangladesh (next slide). David was Technical Director at RB International based in Kuala Lumpur where he lead the technical team working on a number of major concrete bridge, viaduct and tunnel projects including the 17km Second Penang Crossing. Since 2011 David has worked as an independent consultant advising contractors and leading consulting practices.

 

Engineering Design Consultant

2003 BCIA winner International ProjectUK – Bangladesh Friendship Bridge

David is a contributor to the successful Bridge Design Manual. He is the author of a book on Steel-concrete composite bridges which was recently updated for its second edition, and a book on design of composite buildings using Eurocodes. He is currently writing a book on Concrete Bridges.

David has written and presented many technical papers, he was awarded the Telford Prize for his paper on in-plane membrane (arching) actions in slabs. He recently published work on extradosed bridges. David’s work on environmental comparisons of bridges was widely quoted. He is a reviewer for ICE Proceedings papers and a member of the Proceedings Overseeing Panel for Bridge Engineering.

Writing

http://www.icebookshop.com/bookshop_main.asp?ISBN=9780727758101&BookTitle=Steel-concrete%20Composite%20Bridges,%202nd%20edition

http://www.thomastelford.com/books/bookshop_main.asp?ISBN=9780727740892%20&BookTitle=Steel-Concrete%20Composite%20Buildings

David is active in many current research areas via Collings R&D and University of Surrey. He was awarded the Telford prize for his paper on in-plane membrane (arching) actions in slabs, the work is ongoing with further tests and research currently being carried out in Malaysia and UK. David’s work on environmental comparisons of bridges was widely quoted; again research work in this area is currently ongoing.

David was a member of the committee updating the advice in TR47 to accommodate external prestress and segmental construction techniques. He is active in various industry groups and is a past chairman of the UK Post Tensioning Association. He is a reviewer for ICE Proceedings papers and a member of the Proceedings overseeing panel for Bridge Engineering. David is past chairman of the IABSE group Malaysia.

Research

David has lectured on the University of Surrey’s MSc course in steel concrete composite bridges, and a visiting lecturer at Imperial College, London. David is a Supervising Civil Engineer for the ICE training scheme, he has seen many successfully pass their Professional Review and gain the prestigious MICE. During his time in SE Asia David learnt to read, write and speak Chinese ( 汉语 ), continuing to learn as well as teach. .

David also carries out bespoke lectures for company CPD requirements, recent lectures include Extradosed Bridges, Diaphragm Design, Design of steel-concrete composite bridges, etc. Extracts or summaries of some presentations are available for fee download on slide share:

http://www.slideshare.net/DavidCollings/steel-concrete-composite-bridgeshttp://www.slideshare.net/DavidCollings/extradosed-bridges-exploring-the-boundaries

Teaching

Contact:

email: david.collings@live.co.ukSMS: +60122078065

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