Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management, Life-Cycle Sustainability and Innovations

Dr. Hiroshi Yokota is a is a Professor at Division of Engineering and Policy for Sustainable Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University. He obtained his Doctor of Engineering degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1993. Before he joined Hokkaido University, he worked for Ministry of Transport and Port and Airport Research Institute, Japan for 29 years. His research interests include life cycle management of infrastructure and sustainability design of concrete structures. As parts of the life cycle management, performance evaluation, deterioration prediction, effectiveness of repair are main considerations for research. He has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers and over 200 papers at international conferences and symposia. He is currently President of Asian Concrete Federation, Executive Council Member of JCI, and Convener of ISO/TC71/WG1 (Life cycle management of concrete structures)Dr. Dan Frangopol is the inaugural holder of the Fazlur R. Khan Endowed Chair of Structural Engineering and Architecture at Lehigh University. Before joining Lehigh University in 2006, he was Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He is recognized as a leader in the field of life-cycle engineering of civil and marine structures. His main research interests are in the application of probabilistic concepts and methods to civil and marine engineering including structural reliability, probability-based design and optimization of buildings, bridges and naval ships, life-cycle performance maintenance, management and cost of structures and infrastructures under uncertainty, risk-based assessment and decision-making, and infrastructure sustainability and resilience to disasters. He is the Founding President of the International Associations for Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS) and Life-Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE). He is the Founding Editor of international peer-reviewed journal Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. Dr. Frangopol is the recipient of several prestigious awards from ASCE, IABSE, IASSAR, and other professional organizations, such as the OPAL Award, Newmark Medal, Alfredo Ang Award, T.Y. Lin Medal, F. R. Khan Medal, and Croes Medal (twice). He holds 4 honorary doctorates and 12 honorary professorships from major universities. He is a foreign member of the Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe, London) and the Royal Academy of Belgium, an Honorary Member of the Romanian Academy, and a Distinguished Member of ASCE.