EDB CV

·	Independent consultant, specialising in earthquake engineering.

·	Responsible for the earthquake engineering design, analysis, assessment and retrofit of a wide range of buildings, industrial and offshore structures, nuclear power related structures and bridges.

·	UK Technical Contact/National Co-ordinator for the European standard Eurocode 8 (Design of structures for earthquake resistance)

·	Extensive first hand first hand field experience of seismic damage, through involvement in six earthquake field missions

·	Author of the second edition of the structural design guide 'Earthquake design practice for buildings', published by Thomas Telford in April 2006.

·	Visiting lecturer on MSc courses in earthquake engineering at Imperial College, Sheffield University and Nottingham Trent University, and responsible for a dozen courses on earthquake engineering for the Institution of Structural Engineers and others.

·	Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in the Principles of Civil Engineering Design, University of Oxford, 1998-2003

·	From 1982 to 1995, Ove Arup & Partners’ designated specialist in London on the structural aspects of earthquake engineering.

·	Seismic design consultant for major building developments in Islamabad (for Atkins), Almaty (for Whitby Bird) and Riga (for King Shaw Associates)

·	Assessment of seismic risk in British Council’s overseas properties (with CAR Ltd)

·	Development of seismic design criteria for a marine export terminal in Indonesia, for Penta Ocean Construction Co Ltd, Tokyo

·	Advice on seismic upgrading of Antalya International Airport using base isolation (for Parsons Brinckerhoff).

·	Development of seismic vulnerability functions for re-insurance use (for CAR Ltd)

·	Seismic consultant on access jetty for supertanker loading bay, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline project (for ILF Beratende Ingenieure, Austria)

·	Inspection and report on seismic damage to the Port Manzanillo, Mexico (for Posford Haskoning)

·	Structural consultant to TEFER project, for improvement of natural hazard insurance and disaster funding strategy in Turkey, for CAR/Willis.

·	Inspection and outline recommendations for retrofit of 10 heritage buildings in Gujarat damaged by the January 2001 earthquake, for INTACH (the Indian National Trust for Arts and Cultural Heritage) - see report.

Assessment and retrofit recommendations for embassy buildings in Istanbul, Ashgabat, Tashkent, Dushanbe, Sofia, Jakarta, Lima, Islamabad, Almaty and Algiers (for Foreign & Commonwealth Office), multi-storey hotel building in Armenia (for R J Crocker & Partners) and masonry building in Georgia, former Soviet Union (for Aspen Burrow Crocker).

·	Principal seismic adviser to Laing/Owen Williams JV on the seismic assessment and upgrade of 57 hospitals in Istanbul and Izmir.

·	Walkdown survey and advice on seismic vulnerability of non-structural items in a soap factory, Istanbul (with Orient Research, for Proctor & Gamble).

·	Preparation (with Ove Arup & Partners) of report on Eurocode 8 for British Energy. Project leader and principal engineer for comparison study of nuclear codes of practice, with sub-contractors in UK, France, Germany, USA and Japan, for Nuclear Electric Ltd.

·	Review of seismic design procedures, and review of Wylfa nuclear power station seismic reassessment, for Magnox Electric.

·	Seismic design advice on the Malampaya onshore gas terminal (Philippines) and for other petrochemical plants & bridges in India, Iran, Indonesia and Oman, for Foster Wheeler and on a major road bridge in Turkey and a 320m high chimney in Taiwan for Kvaerner Technology.

·	Seismic review of major docking facilities at Devonport (for DML Ltd and Electrowatt Ekono) and Barrow UK (for Owen Williams) and review of site specific seismic hazard assessment of Dounreay, North Scotland (for AEA Technology).

·	Seismic design advice on bridges for Taiwan High Speed Rail Project, for Maunsell Ltd.

·	Peer review of study on seismic response of masonry panels, (with Gifford & Partners) and structural reliability studies (with Professor Michael Baker, University of Aberdeen) for British Energy and for Allott & Lomax.

Organisation and presentation of courses on seismic engineering for Institution of Structural Engineers (1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,2005), SECED/Imperial College (1996, 1999), Ove Arup & Partners (1995) and INTACH, India (2001). Presenter (in French) at Ponts et Chaussees courses, Paris (1998, 1999) .

·	Other clients have included Bechtel Water Technology, Marsh McLennan, the European Commission , Building Research Establishment.

Establishing the need for seismic design in the UK (with Bryan Skipp). Report for Institution of Civil Engineers.

The estimation of peak ground motion parameters from spectral ordinates. Journal of Earthquake Engineering, Vol 11 No 1, 2007.

Retrofit of Antalya airport international terminal building, Turkey using seismic isolation (with Cetin Yilmaz and Christopher Sketchley). First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, September 2006.

Relationships between pgv and response spectral ordinates (with John Alarcon and Julian Bommer, Imperial College London). First European Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology, Geneva, September 2006. Click here for link to poster.

Earthquake design practice for buildings. Textbook commissioned by Thomas Telford, April 2006.

Quality management of structural design. In: Kanda J (ed.) Monograph on structural safety and QA for tall buildings. Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat/ASCE, 2005.

Eurocode 8 – an international seismic code for the 21st Century? IABSE Henderson colloquium on dynamics, Cambridge University, July 2005.

Building vulnerability assessment using pushover methods - a Turkish case study (with Juliet Bird and Robin Spence). Proceedings, International Workshop on performance-based seismic design, Bled, Slovenia, June 2004.

Eurocode 8 and its implications for UK-based structural engineers (with Bryan Skipp). The Structural Engineer, Vol 82/3, Feb 2004.

Development of an earthquake loss model for Turkish catastrophe insurance (with Bommer J, Spence R, Erdik M, Tabuchi S, Aydinoglu N, , del Re D, Peterken O). Journal of Engineering Seismology, 2002, 6:2

Earthquake risk mitigation: Lessons from recent experience in Turkey (with Robin Spence, Oliver Peterken, Polat Gulkan and Nuray Ayndinoglu). 12th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, London 2002.

The implementation in the UK of earthquake engineering research (editor and part author). Society for Earthquake and Civil Engineering Dynamics, London, April 2001.

Earthquake resistant design in the 21st Century. Ingenia (magazine of the Royal Academy of Engineering) May 2000.

Simplified methods for seismic reliability analysis (with Professor Michael Baker, University of Aberdeen). Twelfth World Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Auckland February 2000.

Dynamics: an introduction for civil and structural engineers. Contributor of sections on earthquake engineering. Institution of Civil Engineers design and practice guide, 1999.

A critical review of international practice on seismic design of reinforced concrete buildings (with A Kappos and R Park). Structural Engineer, June 1998. Awarded Murray Buxton diploma, 1999.

Earthquake engineering in the 1990’s - achievements, concerns and future directions. Paper No 11449, Structures & Buildings, May 1998. Awarded Coopers Hill memorial prize, 1999.

Seismic response of piles: some recent design studies (with J Pappin, J Ramsey and Z Lubkowski). Journal of Geotechnical Engineering, January 1998.

UK Continental Shelf seismic hazard (with Musson, Long, Pappin and Lubkowski). Health and Safety Executive - Offshore Technology Information. OTH 96 416. 1996.

Seismic analysis and design of the Istanbul Cultural and Congress Centre (with H Giles & Z Lubkowski). Fifth SECED conference on earthquake engineering, published Balkema 1995.

Regional influences on the seismic design of tall buildings: some international comparisons (with KL Chang). Invited paper, Habitat and the High Rise conference, Amsterdam 1995.

Concrete structures in earthquake regions. Editor and principal author of textbook, published by Longmans, 1994.

Current practice in the design and analysis of earthquake resistant structures. Keynote address, ERCAD conference, Berlin, 1994.

Engineering characteristics of earthquake loading. Invited paper, Hazards Forum Seminar, 1992.

Comparison between analytical and shaking table results for extreme response of a model steel building (with A Blakeborough and P Murphy). 1991SECED Conference.

Code provisions for engineered building structures in areas of low seismicity (with M Baker, Imperial College). Ninth European Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Moscow 1990.

Computer aided analysis methods for the design of earthquake resistant structures: a review (co-author). Proc Institution of Civil Engineers, Part 1, Vol. 84, August 1988.

Survey, repair and strengthening of buildings for earthquake damage. Structural Survey, London 1987.

Response of an Offshore Gravity Platform in the North Sea to Extreme Earthquakes. In: "Earthquake Engineering in Britain", Thomas Telford, 1985.

Seismic Hazard Assessment. The Arup Journal, 1984.

Impact Scalability of Plated Steel Structures. In "Structural Crashworthiness". Butterworths, 1983.

Cast-in Floor Ducts in Concrete Slabs. Ove Arup and Partners, 1980.

The Strength of Tubular Joints in Tubular Lattice Towers. The Arup Journal, 1979.

The CARE manual of feeder road construction (editor and principal author). CARE, Freetown, 1977.

The design of deep beams in reinforced concrete (contributor). CIRIA Guide 2, 1977.

Earthquake Field Reports

The Liège, Belgium earthquake of 1983: A field report by EEFIT. Ove Arup & Partners, 1983.

The Chilean earthquake of 3 March 1985: A field report by EEFIT (editor and co-author). SECED, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 1988.

The Mexican earthquake of 19 September 1985: A field report by EEFIT (editor and co-author). SECED, Institution of Civil Engineers, London, 1986.

The Luzon Philippines earthquake of 19 July 1990: A field report by EEFIT (editor and co-author). EEFIT, Institution of Structural Engineers, London, 1991.

The Erzincan Turkey Earthquake of 13 March 1992: A field report by EEFIT (contributor). EEFIT, Institution of Structural Engineers, London 1993.

Effect of the Bhuj, India earthquake of 26 January 200l on heritage buildings. Edmund Booth & Rabindra Vasavada. Web publication 2001.

1979 - 1982: Ove Arup & Partners, London

Project engineer on a variety of building, industrial and offshore projects. During this time, Mr Booth was responsible for an experimental programme, carried out for the CEGB, investigating the scalability of impact tests.

1979: Ove Arup & Partners, Nigeria

Site survey and design of upgrade of existing telecommunications buildings throughout Nigeria. Site survey and analysis for vibration problems in swamp piled flow station.

1977 - 1979: Ove Arup & Partners, London

Assistant Engineer on a variety of offshore, industrial and building projects.

1975 -1977: CARE, (NGO), Sierra Leone, West Africa

Senior Site Civil Engineer, working on the site construction and design of roadworks, culverts and small bridgeworks for a rural feeder road self help construction programme.

1973 - 1975: Kier Ltd., Civil Engineering Contractors, Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK

Site Engineer (later section engineer) working on the construction of bridges for a major roadway in Suffolk.

1969 - 1973: Ove Arup & Partners, London

Graduate Structural/Civil Engineer working on the design of a variety of building projects.