Throughout 2025, the Building Resilient team took part in a range of dissemination and engagement activities, from research visits to leading institutions to presentations in international conferences. Below is a recap of our main engagement activities during the year.
Jose Adam, Andri Setiawan, and Maria Luz Gerbaudo visited Imperial College London and University College London (UCL) in March 2025, where we presented our latest experimental campaigns performed within the framework of the Endure and Encast projects.
In May, Lisbel Rueda García and Marcos Arias Gracey had the privilege of attending the São Paulo School of Advanced Science on Structural Safety and its role in cutting greenhouse-gas emissions from the built environment
Andri Setiawan and Juan Sebastian Fontalvo attended the fib Symposium 2025, held in Antibes (France), 16th – 18th Jun 2025 (https://www.afgc.asso.fr/evenement/fib-symposium-2025/). They contributed to the congress with three presentations related to the experimental campaigns of the Endure project and the research of the Enhance project on retrofitting beams at the roof level.
Lisbel Rueda, Marcos Arias, and Manuel Buitrago attended the IX Congreso Internacional de Estructuras – ACHE 2025, held in Granada (Spain), 25th – 27th Jun 2025 (https://congresoache.com/). They participated in the conference with three presentations showing the main results of the Enhance and Endure projects.
Giacomo Caredda participated in The Eighteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing – CIVIL-COMP 2025, held in Cagliari (Italy), 27th -29th August 2025 (https://www.civil-comp.info/2025/cc/), with a presentation entitled “Enhancing Building Robustness Through a Novel Risk-Based Segmentation Strategy: A Case Study”.
Brais Barros, Lorenzo Marin, Manuel Buitrago, and Jose Adam attended the International Colloquium on Stability and Ductility of Steel Structures – SDSS 2025, held in Barcelona (Spain), 8th – 10th September 2025 (https://sdss2025.upc.edu/). They contributed to the congress with three presentations related to the Enhance, Endure and Pont3 projects.
Juan Camilo Reyes and Jose Adam attended the 14th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Historical Constructions – SAHC 2025, celebrated at the EPFL campus in Lausanne (Switzerland), 15th – 17th September 2025 (https://sahc2025.epfl.ch/). Juan Camilo delivered a lecture entitled “Conservation of Ageing Steel Bridges through Robustness and Monitoring” about the Pont3 project, in which we highlighted our recent publication in Nature Magazine: “Latent resistance mechanisms of steel truss bridges after critical failures”.
Maria Luz Gerbaudo contributed to the Young Engineers Colloquium – YEC 2025 organized by IABSE, held in München (Germany), 7th – 8th November 2025 (https://www.iabse.de/en/yec-2025/introduction/). She received the Best Oral Presentation Award for her talk on the Endure project, entitled “Lizard-Inspired Design to Prevent Structural Collapses.”
Nirvan Makoond participated in the Annual Meeting of the Giconsime research group from the University of Oviedo, held in Asturias (Spain) from 28 to 30 November 2025. He presented our work on decision-making performed in the Endure project, through a talk entitled “Supporting cost-effective decisions to enhance the resilience of structures.”
Jose Adam, Manuel Buitrago, and Juan José Moragues attended the 1st International Conference on Infrastructural Monitoring and Protection – CIMP1 2025, celebrated in Perth (Australia), 1st – 4th December 2025 (https://cimp1-2025.org/). Jose Adam delivered a keynote lecture entitled “Robustness of Buildings and Bridges: Insights from Large-Scale Testing”. Manuel Buitrago was the chair of the session and delivered the presentation “A fuse-based solution for protecting structures against disproportionate collapse”.
Jose Adam, Manuel Buitrago, and Juan José Moragues also visited the UTS Faculty of Engineering and IT, at the University of Technology Sydney, where Jose Adam delivered a distinguished guest lecture entitled “Propagation of failures in structures: Cases of Research on Structural Engineering published in Nature”. In this lecture, we shared with the audience our two civil engineering research papers recently published in Nature magazine.
