Jonathan Simm Email & Phone Number

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Dr Jonathan Simm has responsibility for developing technical capabilities across all aspects of resilience in the water environment (including for engineering structures and assets but also socio-economic and environmental aspects of resilience and embracing areas previously encapsulated within thinking on performance, risk, sustainability etc.). He joined HR Wallingford in 1992 after an early career working with consulting engineers in feasibility studies, design and construction supervision… Show more Dr Jonathan Simm has responsibility for developing technical capabilities across all aspects of resilience in the water environment (including for engineering structures and assets but also socio-economic and environmental aspects of resilience and embracing areas previously encapsulated within thinking on performance, risk, sustainability etc.). He joined HR Wallingford in 1992 after an early career working with consulting engineers in feasibility studies, design and construction supervision of coastal and maritime works and became a Technical Director in 2001 and Chief Technical Director for resilience in 2017.Jonathan has a passion for developing ideas that are usable by directly usable by practitioners. He has been involved for 20 years in producing guidance documents for coastal and hydraulic engineering (such as use of rock, timber, concrete and waste materials) as well as broader topics such as construction risk and whole life costs. Over the last 10 years he has developed new ideas and approaches for sustainable asset management, integrating engineering thinking and analysis about reliability of defences with issues of deterioration and whole-life costs. Jonathan is well respected as a chairman of professional and citizen stakeholder groups, currently having roles as diverse as chairing a European committee responsible for armourstone specification, chairing an international group responsible for the production of a handbook on levee management and design and chairing the CIRIA Water Advisory Panel.Jonathan is currently completing doctoral research on the social aspects of the physical assets for flood and coastal defence and voluntary involvement with their management. As part of this he has developed new skills in interviewing and managing a diverse group of professionals and citizens. Show less

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Direct-Action Self-Help Groups In Uk Flood Risk Management

Bsc(Eng), Civil Engineering

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