Scott Walbridge, PEng

Scott Walbridge is the Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 2006. Prior to that, he studied at the University of Alberta and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Switzerland and worked as a structural engineering consultant with Cohos Evamy (now Dialog) in Edmonton. Scott’s research focuses primarily on improving the safety and durability of metal structures in civil engineering applications. His research projects have investigated topics including: fatigue assessment and retrofitting of welded metal structures, encouraging the use of lighter, more corrosion resistant materials in new construction, and the development of new connection concepts to enable modular construction and reduce the costs associated with deconstruction and adaptive reuse. His research employs a broad range of tools, including laboratory testing, fracture mechanics, structural reliability theory, and life-cycle cost analysis. Currently, Scott is active on a number of CSA design code committees. In particular, he is chairing the aluminum structures technical subcommittee of the Canadian bridge design code (S6), as well as serving actively on the S6 technical subcommittee for steel structures, and the technical committees for the structural steel and aluminum welding codes (W59 and W59.2) and the aluminum structures design code (S157). In recent years he has served on the editorial boards for the IABSE journal: Structural Engineering International and the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering. Scott served as Program Director for Waterloo’s Architectural Engineering undergraduate program from 2018-2022.

• Fatigue assessment
• Fatigue retrofitting
• Welded metal structures
• Aluminum Structures
• Steel Structures
• Modular construction
• Design for deconstruction
• Structural testing
• Fracture mechanics
• Structural reliability analysis
• Life-cycle cost analysis

• 2005, Doctorate Civil Engineering, Steel Structures Laboratory (ICOM) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
• 1998, Master's Structural Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada
• 1996, Bachelor's Civil Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

• CIVE 704 - Bridge Design
  • Taught in 2024

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