An Associate Director in Resilience, Security and Risk, David Cormie is the leader of blast engineering and structural resilience in Arup. He has 17 years’ experience in the design of buildings and other structures against extreme loads and beyond-design basis events, and now spends his time specialising in the protective design of a wide range of landmark and high-profile/high-threat buildings, structures and infrastructure assets worldwide against security and terrorist threats
David is lead author of Blast Effects on Buildings, a leading text in the field of blast engineering, and is an expert in structural robustness and design against progressive and disproportionate collapse and the analysis and design of glazed façades against blast loading. He was awarded a first class MEng(Hons) in Civil Engineering from the University of Nottingham, was admitted as Member and then as Fellow of both the ICE and IStructE and is a Professor of high strain rate and blast research at Imperial College London where he leads Arup’s research programme on the behaviour of glass under blast loading.
The event will start at 5 pm with tea & coffee in the Level 2 Concourse of the City & Guilds building, followed by the lecture at 5 30 in Lecture Theatre 200. After the lecture, the Level 2 Concourse will host a drinks reception.