Gordon is a Vice President of Jacobs. He is a civil and structural engineer and has international experience in major infrastructure projects. He is a graduate of Edinburgh University, the Open University and Imperial College, London, and the author of over 40 technical papers on buildings, bridges, tunnels and the history of civil engineering. He served as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers in 2005-06. In 2008 he was awarded an OBE for services to civil engineering in Scotland.

Stuart has been a practising structural, civil and transport engineer for over 40 years. He is WSP's Group Technical Coordinator, responsible for a team advancing and disseminating technical knowledge throughout WSP Group. He has wide experience in structural design, which he has applied in expert investigation and trouble-shooting, especially in the area of structural loadings and movements, particularly managing the effects of temperature, shrinkage, early-age contractions and creep in concrete, masonry and steel structures. Stuart is fully involved in supporting the profession, both through active membership of committees and working parties and by authoring papers and articles in professional journals

Joined the University of Manchester in 2002. In September 2007, he took up the position of Head of the Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering School and in June 2009 as Acting Vice-President and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences in June 2009. His appointment as Vice-President & Dean was confirmed in December 2009. He has previously worked for Lovell Construction, Cameron Taylor Bedford and Clarke Nicholls Marcel, where he designed and supervised the construction of a number of concrete, steel and masonry structures. He has also worked for SCI and BRE. His main research specialties are fire safety engineering of structures, membrane action, wind loading, and steel-concrete composite systems. He is author of over 80 technical papers and 11 practical design guides in structural fire engineering.

Formerly a Director of Robert Benaim Associates, he started Brian Bell Associates in 1999. With international experience in the design and construction of major projects, he now specialises in contractors' working methods and in soil/structure interaction - particularly for cut-and-cover structures, and acts as an Expert Witness. Annually he gives a lecture on Temporary Works and supervises a four-week project by MSc students at Imperial College, with emphasis on the safety of design and of construction. He considers the understanding of stability at all stages of construction to be a pre-requisite to safe operations on site.

John is involved in structural risk management and occupational health and safety risk management. His consultancy experience includes highway and building structures. He has carried out a wide range of research projects for HSE, co-authored CIRIA guides and has also written industry guidance for designers. John is also a member of the IStructE Task Group on Robustness and Progressive Collapse.

Angus has been involved for many years in main contracting, and specialist sub-contracting, design and construction of permanent and temporary works. This has included building structures, bridges and stadia. Served on the IStructE Task Group on Risk in Structural Engineering and other IStructE panels.

Specialist in the analysis and design of steel and composite structures, behaviour of steel connections, light gauge steel and modular construction, behaviour of metallic cladding. Has authored a number of industry guides relating to steel and composite constructions.

Responsible for bridge management, maintenance and design services. Has managed research projects on the structural behaviour and safety of bridges. Is author/manager of a number of bridge related codes and standards. Chair of the ICE Structural Panel.

Richard has a background in the design of bridges and building structures, as well as highway and airport civil engineering. Richard's current role is to support development of the structures discipline in Buro Happold, with particular focus on quality of engineering design and development of technical excellence.

Leader of the Structural Development and Support Team within Arup. Expertise in all aspects of structural concrete and sits on both BSI and European code committees in the subject. Has investigated a number of failures and provided expert advise on their causes. Contributed to numerous Concrete Society, IStructE and CIRIA publications on the use of concrete, currently member of the IStructE task Group on Robustness.

He qualified and practised as a civil engineer before becoming a lawyer and has significant experience in both the contentious and non-contentious aspects of the construction and engineering sector.

Director at Mott MacDonald Group where he champions Professional Excellence and leads research and innovation. With international experience in the management and design of major projects, he now specialises in foundation engineering - particularly tunnels, cut-and-cover works and deep excavations in difficult ground conditions. He is a visiting lecturer at Cambridge University, Imperial College, Vienna Technical University and the University of Illinois. Has taken a leading role in the promotion and development of the Observational Method and Value Engineering with a particular focus on promoting safety as a driver for innovation.

Richard has some 39 years experience of marine and offshore civil and structural engineering. He worked for BP Exploration since 1980 and on retirement at the end of 2007 was the most senior structural engineer in the company responsible for the technical practices applied in projects and operations worldwide.

He was a leading contributor to the deepwater systems R&D which has guided most of BP's deep water developments and in the R&D conducted after the Piper Alpha incident. He has authored or co-authored more than 35 papers. He is Chairman of the ISO Offshore Structures Standards Committee, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and is currently a Visiting Professor in the Principles of Civil Engineering Design at Oxford University and practices as an independent consultant.