Husham Almansour, Ph.D., P.Eng. is a Senior Research Officer in the Sustainable Resilient Infrastructures and Communities Research Unit, the Construction Research Centre (CRC), National Research Council Canada (NRCC), and an Adjunct Professor in the area of Structural Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, the University of Ottawa, and Department of Civil & Mineral Engineering, University of Toronto. Dr. Almansour’s expertise is in the area of structural mechanics with a focus on the performance, protection, and rehabilitation of aging structures and infrastructure against extreme loads and the area of innovative structural systems using advanced materials. He is leading the NRC research teams in the area of climate resilience of infrastructure and the area of innovative high-performance structural systems using advanced materials. Dr. Almansour co-supervised more than twenty Ph.D. and M.A.Sc research theses. Dr. Almansour is a member of NRC-NBC, CSA committees S6 (Canadian Bridge Design Code), S 850 (Design and assessment of buildings subjected to blast loads), S806 (Design and Construction of Building Components with Fiber-Reinforced Polymers), ASCE-11, Guideline for Structural Condition Assessment of Existing Buildings, ASCE Blast and impact loads on structures; ASCE Resilience and bridge design, TAC Structure Standing Committee, and CSCE Committee on Education and Research.

Ashraf Ashour is a Professor of Structural Engineering at the University of Bradford, received his PhD from Cambridge University, was the Head of Civil Engineering Department and the Director of Research, and is currently the Leader of the sustainable environments research group at the University of Bradford. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers (FIStructE) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA). He has extensive research experience in the development of new sustainable construction materials and their use in sustainable infrastructure as well as techniques to extend the life of concrete structures. He has published more than 300 journal and conference papers and is consistently ranked amongst the top 2% scientists in Civil Engineering in accordance with the Global Database produced by Stanford University and was recently awarded Newton Prize-2020 for his work in developing sustainable concrete materials and structures. He was the Editor-in-Chief of the Structures and Buildings Journal (ICE) and is currently an Associated Editor for Structures, Composite Structures and many other journals.