Prof Middleton is the Professor of Construction Engineering and the Director of Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology at Cambridge University. Prof. Middleton is the Chairman of UK Bridge Owners Forum that was established in year 2000 by representatives of the major bridge owning organizations in the UK to identify research needs and priorities for the bridge infrastructure. He has been awarded the Henry Adams Award of the Institution of Structural Engineers (1999) and the Telford Premium Award (1999) and Telford Gold Medal (2010) from the Institution of Civil Engineers, UK. He was elected Fellow of Transport Research Foundation in 2005 and has been involved in development of Codes of Practices for bridges and has been acting as a specialist bridge consultant to various clients in the UK and abroad. |