This professorial lecture will explore how to ensure infrastructures are fit for purpose with ideas on how to design a more cost-effective and environmentally friendly infrastructure to improve and increase its lifespan and how they can be retained which will in turn reduce the need for more costly demolition and replacement processes.

We aimed to develop an expert system to enable the optimisation of repairs and maintenance solutions for reinforced concrete highway bridges

Research Opportunities available with the Centre of Infrastructure Management (CIM)

Professor Fin O'Flaherty works in the Centre for Infrastructure Management within MERI. Within this research centre, Fin uses his wealth of experience to deliver services for businesses operating in the infrastructure and construction sector