Dr. Scott Walbridge

Biography

Scott Walbridge is the Chair of Civil Environmental Engineering at the University of Waterloo, where he has been teaching and conducting research since 2006. Prior to this, he studied at the University of Alberta and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, and worked as a structural engineering consultant with Cohos Evamy in Edmonton. His research focuses on improving the safety and durability of metal structures in civil engineering applications. Key areas of investigation include fatigue assessment, retrofitting of welded metal structures, the use of lighter and corrosion-resistant materials in new construction, and developing new connection concepts to enable modular construction and reduce costs associated with deconstruction and adaptive reuse. His work employs a broad range of tools, including laboratory testing, fracture mechanics, structural reliability theory, and life-cycle cost analysis. He is actively involved in numerous Canadian Standards Association design code committees, serving as chair of the aluminum structures technical subcommittee for the Canadian bridge design code and participating in committees related to structural steel and aluminum welding codes. Additionally, he has served on the editorial boards for IABSE's Structural Engineering International journal and the ASCE Journal of Bridge Engineering. He was the Program Director for Waterloo’s Architectural Engineering undergraduate program from 2018 to 2022.

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