Publications

Brady Review of All Fatal Accidents in Queensland Mines

Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Energy, December 2019

Review of fatal accidents from 2000 to 2019.

Matter of Interpretation

Safeguard Issue 181

The Roles of Technical Engineering Experts in Construction Disputes

Construction Law International, June 2016

A guide for legal teams engaging technical experts on disputes.

Brooklyn Bridge – Tragedy Overcome (Part 1)

The Structural Engineer, March 2015

The incredible story of the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Brooklyn Bridge – Tragedy Overcome (Part 2)

The Structural Engineer, April 2015

How Emily Warren Roebling defied the odds to see the project to completion.

Citicorp Centre Tower

The Structural Engineer, February 2014

The Citicorp Tower Crisis – how failure was averted.

Failure Investigations and the Forensic Process (Part 1)

The Structural Engineer, December 2013

The differences between a good designer and a good forensic engineer.

Failure Investigations and the Forensic Process (Part 2)

The Structural Engineer, January 2014

The key to a forensically sound investigation.

Hartford Stadium Collapse

The Structural Engineer, August 2015

Why software should never be more than a tool to be used wisely.

How Engineers Learn from Failure

The Structural Engineer, October 2015

How engineers learn from failure – frustration is the key.

Human Fallibility and Automation

The Structural Engineer, September 2015

Lessons from the Virgin Galactic crash – was it human error?

Hyatt Regency – The Price of Human Failure

The Structural Engineer, May 2015

The story of the survivors, the rescuers and the engineers.

Implicit Assumptions

The Structural Engineer, January 2015

Implicit assumptions and their role in bad judgement.

Lessons from the Malahide Viaduct Collapse

The Structural Engineer, July 2013

How corporate memory loss led to the collapse of the Malahide Viaduct.

Near-misses and Failure (Part 1)

The Structural Engineer, August 2013

The role of near misses in failure and prevention