Raising the alarm: how things go wrong

Overview

Looking back on his career, Chris Brown, civil structural maritime and coastal engineer, has come to reflect on the errors, mistakes and worse, and how they were overcome and could perhaps have been avoided. These are not topics often discussed by our profession but were presented at the ICCE 2024 in Rome.

This presentation is concerned with the design, construction and inspection of revetments, seawalls and breakwaters, looking at the problems that can occur with independent advisors, testing laboratories and the maintenance of structures.

Chris will look into his 60 year career to show problems that he encountered and some the remediations that were achieved, or in some cases the eventual failure of an asset.

Programme