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Costas Georgopoulos
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing
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- Overview
- Qualifications
- Career Highlights
- Research
- Conference Highlights
- Professional Body Membership
- Key Industry Roles
Overview
Costas Georgopoulos is a chartered engineer with particular expertise in earthquake design, sustainable concrete construction and engineering education. He is a fellow civil and structural engineer member of various scientific committees such as the Academic Qualifications Panel, Research Panel and Education Panel of the Institution of Structural Engineers, on the Civil Engineering Editorial Panel of ICE, a reviewer of papers for The Structural Engineer and ICE journals, an editor of CE Proceedings special issues such as Forensic Engineering & Tall Buildings, and a past chairman of the Southern Branch of the Institution of Structural Engineers. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary professorship from Brunel University.
He now heads up Kingston University's new MSc on Sustainable Concrete Structures with Construction Management which uniquely combines all sustainability credentials of concrete, including inherent and enhanced material performance, advanced concrete framed structures and substructures, specialised actions such as earthquakes and fire, and sustainable construction management practices with concrete.
Qualifications
| Year gained |
Subject |
| 2009 |
Prof: Associate Professor (honorary), Brunel University. |
| 2007 |
FICE: Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers. |
| 2007 |
FIStructureE: Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers. |
| 2001 |
FHEA: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. |
| 1995 |
Eur Ing: Member of the European Federation of National Associations. |
| 1994 |
PgC: PG Certificate in teaching at universities, Napier University, Edinburgh. |
| 1993 |
MICE: Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers. |
| 1987 |
CEng: Chartered Engineer, Member of the Institution of Structural Engineers. |
| 1979 |
MIGreekE: Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. |
| 1979 |
First class honours degree, the National Technical University of Greece, Athens. |
Career Highlights
| Year |
Position held |
| 2009 - |
Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing, Kingston University. |
| 2005 - 2009 |
Education and training manager, The Concrete Centre. |
| 2000 - 2005 |
Senior lecturer, University of Portsmouth. |
| 1995 - 2000 |
Technical Director, Greek Association of Insurance Companies, Athens. |
| 1992 - 1995 |
Lecturer, Napier University, Edinburgh. |
| 1990 - 1992 |
Senior Engineer, Blyth & Blyth Consulting Engineers, Edinburgh. |
| 1989 - 1990 |
Senior Engineer, Nuclear Design Associates (Taylor Woodrow), Knutsford. |
| 1988 - 1989 |
Main Grade Engineer, Halcrow Consulting Engineers, Scotland. |
| 1987 - 1988 |
Project Engineer, Blyth & Blyth Consulting Engineers, Edinburgh. |
| 1983 - 1986 |
Design Civil Engineer, Cussons Imperial Leather, Nigeria. |
| 1982 - 1983 |
Structural Engineer, General Company of Prefabricated Concrete, Greece. |
| 1980 - 1981 |
Graduate Engineer, National Service, Athens, Greece. |
Research
Georgopoulos C. (2008), "Supporting research and teaching of concrete in the UK", the Structural Engineer, 1 April 2008, Volume 86, Number 7, pp. 41-44.
Georgopoulos C. (2007), "Concrete research is needs driven", the Structural Engineer, 4 December 2007, Volume 85, Number 23/24, pp. 24-26.
Georgopoulos C. (2007), "Concrete takes the lead in sustainable construction", Civil Engineering, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, May 2007, Volume 160, p. 53.
Georgopoulos C. (2005), "Teaching Structural Design: the WINDS experience", the 8th UNESCO International Conference on Engineering Education, Kingston, Jamaica, 7-11 February, pp. 337-341.
Georgopoulos C. (2004), "Chapter 8 - Extracts from Eurocode 8: Design of structures for earthquake resistance", PP 1990: Guide to the Structural Eurocodes for students of structural design, British Standards Institution, ISBN O 580 4375 X, pp.8-1 to 8-47.
Georgopoulos C., Lee B. (2003), "Windstorm Vulnerability Assessment of Tiled Roofs in the UK using a Damage Function based on Structural Reliability Analysis", the 11th International Conference on Wind Engineering, Lubbock, Texas, USA, 2-5 June, pp. 1503 - 1510.
Conference Highlights
International Conference on "Excellence in Concrete Construction through Innovation", Kingston University, 9/10 September 08
National Conference Organising Committee (chair):
•1. Concrete Communications Conference, University College London, 5-6 September 2006 (33 papers from 25 universities in the UK)
•2. Concrete Communications Research Symposium, Sheffield University, 9-10 September 2007 (21 papers from 15 universities in the UK)
•3. Concrete Communications Conference, Liverpool University, 1-2 September 2008 (27 papers from 20 universities in the UK)
•4. Concrete Communications Research Symposium, Leeds University, 8-9 September 2009
Keynote address titled "Supporting teaching and research in concrete in the UK" for the 36th Convention of the Institute of Concrete Technology of the Concrete Society on "R&D in Concrete Technology", Warwick, UK, 1-2 April 2008.
Professional Body Membership
Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers
Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Member (currently vice-chair) Academic Qualifications Panel, IStructE
Member of Research Panel, the Institution of Structural Engineers
Member of Education Panel, the Institution of Structural Engineers
Member of Civil Engineering Editorial Panel, ICE
Member of Teaching Eurocodes at Universities Working Group, IStructE
Past chairman, IStructE Southern Branch
Key Industry Roles
Close collaboration with the concrete industry.