Allan man

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Allan P. Mann is a British civil engineer known for safety issues in construction.

Mann has a doctorate in civil engineering and worked for a long time in the British branch of the engineering office Jacobs (Jacobs UK) and then self-employed as a court expert and for dispute settlement cases. As an engineer he worked, among other things, on the safety of nuclear power plants and amusement parks, for the defense industry and as an expert in the event of damage.

His projects include Sellafield , the Royal Opera House , the development of Nirex's underground nuclear waste disposal facility, the Devenport shipyard, the London Eye and other Ferris wheels, and the new construction of Wembley Stadium.

He lectures regularly at the Universities of Manchester and Leeds on earthquake safety and in Birmingham on civil engineering damage.

In 2011 he received the gold medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers , where he is active in publications, among other things. He also deals with the history of technology. In 2008 he gave the Annual Lecture at the Henderson Colloquium of the IABSE (Certainty and Uncertainty in Structural Engineering).

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Individual evidence

  1. Short portrait on the occasion of a lecture on advances in engineering in the two world wars (Engineering Victory: Structural Advanced during World Wars I & II), Engineers Ireland. Mann also published about it in The Structural Engineer.
  2. ^ IABSE, Annual Lecture