Joshua Macabuag
Civil engineer
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Joshua Macabuag is a civil engineer, who specialises in disaster response.
Disaster response
Joshua Macabuag | |
|---|---|
| Engineering career | |
| Discipline | Civil Engineering Disaster response |
| Awards | FREng |
Early life and education
Macabuag studied civil engineering at the University of Oxford. Following his graduation, he worked on a project in South Africa with the charity Engineers Without Borders.[1]
Career
In 2009, Macabuag notably won first prize at the ICE's Graduate and Student Papers competition, for his paper investigating the use of polypropylene straps to earthquake-proof buildings in the country of Nepal.[2]
His expertise in disaster response has led him to provide expertise during a number of major global disasters, including the April 2015 Nepal earthquake,[3] Hurricane Irma and others.[4] In 2018, Macabuag published a study in Geosciences into the effect of debris-induced damage in buildings.[5] Macabuag has also published other studies into modelling vulnerabilities during natural disasters.[6]
In 2021, Macabuag partnered with the World Bank to work as a disaster risk engineering consultant.[7] Macabuag was a keynote speaker at the 14th Brunel International Lecture series, where he discussed disaster response.[8] In 2023, he became a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow.[9]
