Structural safety and risk: best practice in preventing technical risks and reduce errors

Alex has over 25 year’s experience working in structural engineering, with over 10 years spent designing buildings in various countries around the world. Since joining Cundall in 2016, he has delivered numerous net zero or low carbon schemes and is an advocate of decarbonising structural design solutions through material selection, efficient design and the repurposing of existing buildings. He also lead the engineering design on the Circular Twin project that was awarded the AJ100 Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award in 2022.

David is one of the leading structural engineers in the field of structural safety and the design of buildings against disproportionate collapse. He has a particular interest in risk in structural design, and in designing out risk from the design of building structures.

Keith is the Design and Technical Quality Director for Ramboll’s UK Structures division.  With over 30 years of design experience on UK and international building projects, he leads their Design Quality Panel with the aim of continual improvement in all aspects of design and technical delivery of structural engineering projects.  As a Project Director at Ramboll and previously Arup, he has led multi-disciplinary engineering teams ensuring the successful delivery of projects from £5m to over £500m construction cost.

Louise is a Director and owner of IPInitiatives who developed the IPI Model. She has a background in main contracting in her earlier career, from a degree in construction management and design, and latterly Collaborative Consultancy. Louise is a trained facilitator, trainer and is a practitioner of using numerous psychometric tools. She has a key interest in people, behaviours and practical implementation of processes