Professor Campbell Middleton

Laing O’Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering at Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering & Technology

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Professor of Construction Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge

Professor Campbell Middleton joined the staff at Cambridge in 1989 having previously worked for nearly 10 years in bridge and highway construction and design in Australia, and with Ove Arup & Partners in London. He was Chairman of the UK Bridge Owners Forum, established in 2000 by representatives of the major bridge owning organisations in the UK to identify research needs and priorities for the bridge infrastructure.

He was 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, and was involved in the development of bridge codes of practice, acting as a specialist bridge consultant to clients in the UK and abroad.

He was one of a group of Cambridge academics awarded a £16.5M grant from the EPSRC/TSB in September 2010 to establish an Innovation & Knowledge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction in Cambridge, which received further funding for a second phase in 2016. He was co-investigator on the Digital Bridges project funded by Innovate UK from 2015-2017, the Principal Investigator for the £0.2M EPSRC Future Infrastructure Forum Network Grant for Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure, awarded in May 2011, and a Visiting Researcher on a CAN$500k NSERC Strategic Grant entitled “Protecting Canada’s Concrete Bridges” which was awarded in October 2010.


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