People / British Group
Executive Committee.
The elected members and officers who shape the British Group’s programme, connect it to the worldwide IABSE network and create space for structural ideas to develop.
Officers
Leading the group.
David Knight
Chair
David is Director of Design at Cake Industries, a chartered structural engineer and Principal of Cake Engineering. His specialism is in engineering design for fabrication in the field of complex sculptures and bridges, with a particular focus on moving structures.
Cameron Archer-Jones
Vice-Chair
Cameron is a passionate advocate for low carbon infrastructure designs that also balance cost, constructability and safety. He has a background in structural engineering with a focus on bridges and offshore structures, having supported numerous international projects at all stages, including assessment of existing structures. Cameron operates under his own company supporting one of the UK’s largest offshore wind farm developments, as well as numerous smaller UK based infrastructure projects.
Mark Bulmer
Honorary Secretary
Mark is a Technical Director for AECOM’s major bridges group, where he leads and manages major bridge projects in the UK and overseas. He started his career working for bridge building contractors before moving to consultant AECOM in 2001; and has been involved in temporary works design, construction engineering, inspection, assessment, and design of large structures, including major bridges. His particular specialism is suspension bridges and he has been involved in over 20 suspension bridges throughout his career.
Martin Kirk
Honorary Treasurer
Martin has recently retired from a role with consultant Arup working for over thirty years on major bridges and other civil engineering works from design inception to construction completion. He was a co-author to IABSE SED14 report on “Sustainable Structural Engineering.”
Edmund Metters
Membership Secretary
Edmund works for Buro Happold, and with over 14 years’ experience as a civil engineer, he leads both bridge specific and multi-discipline projects in the UK and across the globe. Utilising his background in bridge engineering, Edmund draws on his wide range of experiences in the industry to manage and deliver each project to a high-standard. He is actively involved in the Institution of Civil Engineers and also runs the Bridges to Prosperity projects for Buro Happold.
Elected members
Experience across practice, research and design.
Elected for 2026–2030
Nikolaos Nikitas — University of Leeds
John Collins — Roughan & O’Donovan
Nick Fuchs — Jacobs
Arianna Levantesi — Knight Architects
Paresh Vishnoi — Arup
Dan Voica — Amey
Fernando Madrazo-Aguirre — COWI
Elected for 2025–2029
Luke Lapira — UCL
Floss Wilcocks — COWI
Mark de Melo — Arup
Ezra Groskin — Moxon Architects
Daniel Dalton — University of Cambridge
Aitor Oliveras-Ibáñez — Mott MacDonald
Catherine Ramsden — Useful Studio
Elected for 2024–2028
Mahesh Sankaran — SYSTRA
Davood Liaghat — Buro Happold
Eleanor Atherton — AECOM
Francisco Martin — Mott MacDonald
Elected for 2023–2027
Nathalie Richards — Project Centre
David Smith — Atkins
Anthony Dewar — Network Rail
Richard Scantlebury — Hewson
Paul van Hagen — Hardesty & Hanover
Sammy Yip — Arup
Sara Subtil — National Highways