Jo da Silva
Jo da Silva is a British civil engineer.
Jo da Silva has been with Arup since the mid-1990s, where she was the founder (2007) and head of the International Development department, a non-profit department of the engineering company that works with humanitarian organizations. She is an Arup Fellow.
She organized the aid of over 100 aid organizations for Sri Lanka after the 2004 tsunami in the reconstruction. 60,000 emergency shelters were built in half a year.
Since 1991 she has been a member of the NGO RedR, which provides disaster relief in developing countries. For example, she was active in setting up refugee camps after the genocide in Rwanda. She gave the 9th Brunel Lecture (Shifting Agendas - from response to resilience) of the ICE (as the first woman). The theme of her lecture is an initiative (Resilience Shift), supported by Lloyds in London, which aims to shift the attention of civil engineers from defending against building hazards to social, proactive thinking about the function of buildings.
In 2017 she received the gold medal from the Institution of Structural Engineers . She is OBE , was British Expertise Individual of the Year and is a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering .
Web links
- Arup website
- To receive the Gold Medal of the Institution of Structural Engineers 2017
- Brief biography, Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment
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| SURNAME | Silva, Jo there |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British civil engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |