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Ewan is one of the leading long span bridges engineers in the UK, a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IStructE and the ICE. He has 45 years experience in design, construction & maintenance of major bridges, expert knowledge of major cable supported bridges and integrated digital asset management & structural health monitoring systems using data to support engineering decisions.Ewan is Major Bridges Director & Director of the Centre of Excellence for Long Span Bridge Engineering at Amey. He oversees major bridges in SW Scotland for Transport Scotland, including Erskine & Kingston Bridges and is engineering lead on the Severn Bridges contract for Highways England, including Severn & Prince of Wales BridgesEwan was Major Bridges Director on the Forth Bridges Operating Contract, taking responsibility for engineering and technical matters associated with keeping Forth Road Bridge and Queensferry Crossing open, safe and resilient. Ewan led the Design & Technical team who repaired and reopened the Forth Road Bridge repair after the Dec 2015 emergency closure. He led the engineering team dealing with icing events on Queensferry Crossing in 2020 and continues to work on developing monitoring and prediction processes and longer term solutions.He has a strong interest in digitally enabled smart bridges and has led the development & deployment of industry and world leading digital asset management systems on the Forth Road Bridges. The structural health monitoring, data analytics platform & asset information and condition database developed by Amey and deployed on these bridges are the most advanced on any major cable supported bridges in the world, using machine learning & artificial intelligence based predictive analytics, and automated reporting and smart alerts, leading to self-monitoring bridgesEwan also conceived the FRB Critical Elements Programme, a systematic, complex programme of studies, investigations, assessments, interventions & monitoring, designed to understand and mitigate the risk of similar failure to the 2015 truss end link. Ewan has a strong background in structural behaviour analysis and modelling. During the last 5years he developed a high-performing, experienced and capable long span bridges team at the Forth Bridges. This team have capability similar to that of world-leading consultants in this area. Amey has a self-sufficient modelling team at FRB & Queensferry Crossing. The team can provide the specialist non-linear global analysis needed to support assessment, design, strengthening, modification and renewal projects

Listed skills include Civil Engineering, Highways, Road, Construction, and 33 others.

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  Heriot-Watt University

  Civil Engineering