Keynote Lecture
| Keynote Lecture 4 | Honing Safety and Reliability Aspects in the Evolution of Eurocode 7 |
| Date / Time | 12 December 2019, Thursday / 13:40 - 14:10 hrs |
| Venue | Room IB-101 |
| Speaker | Trevor Orr Trinity College Dublin, University of Dublin, Ireland |
Biography
Trevor Orr, is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He obtained his first degree from Trinity College and his PhD from Cambridge University. His main research interests have been in geotechnical engineering, tunnelling and risk and reliability in geotechnical design. He has been involved in Eurocode 7 from the very start in 1981 as the Irish member of a European committee established to prepare a model code for Eurocode 7. Since then he has been continuously involved in the development of Eurocode 7. He is currently a member of a Project Team drafting sections of the next version of Eurocode 7 due to be published in 2024. He has written many journal and conference papers, a number of book chapters and co-authored two books on Eurocode 7. He has presented many invited lectures on Eurocode 7 and presented courses on Eurocode 7 in Ireland, Malaysia and Australia. He was chair of the European Regional Technical Committee 10: Evaluation of Eurocode 7 from 2003-2017. He has been a member of the journal Editorial Advisory Panels for Geotechnique and ICE Proceedings: Geotechnical Engineering. He was editor of the Geotechnical Engineering Editorial Advisory Panel from 2014-2018. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, London and a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland.
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