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Professor Brian Broderick

Professor Of (Civil Struct & Env. Eng.)
CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING (NEW)
      
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Professor Brian Broderick

Professor Of (Civil Struct & Env. Eng.)
CIVIL ENGINEERING BUILDING (NEW)

 bbrodrck@tcd.ie

 3531896 2348


  1,3-BUTADIENE   AIR QUALITY MONITORING   AIR-POLLUTANTS   AIR-QUALITY   ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION   BEHAVIOUR FACTORS   BOLTED T-STUBS   CAPACITY   Civil Engineering   Civil Engineering, Pavements and Structures   COMPOSITE BEAMS AND COLUMNS   CONNECTIONS   DESIGN METHODS & AIDS   EARTHQUAKE   EARTHQUAKE ACCELEROGRAMS   Earthquake engineering   Earthquake resistant structures   Environmental aspects of transportation   Environmental engineering   Environmental Impacts, Interactions   EUROCODE 8   Fatigue of materials   Fuels alternative fuels in transport   GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM (GIS)   Integrated Environmental Assessment   KERBSIDE POLLUTANT CONCENTRATIONS   MODEL   MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS   Renewable energies   ROTATION DUCTILITY   SEISMIC ENGINEERING   SPECTRA   Steel Structures   Structural Analysis   Structural Design   Structural Dynamics   Structural Engineering   Structures   TRANSIENT ANALYSIS   TRANSPORT MANAGEMENT   TRANSPORT PLANNING   Transportation Engineering (Environmental Imp   TRANSPORTATION MODEL   ULTIMATE BEHAVIOR   URBAN AIR QUALITY MODELLING   Vibration and Accoustic Engineering
Project Title
 Environment and Climate Change
From
2007
To
2011
Summary
Structured PhD programme - a national PhD programme in environment science and engineering
Funding Agency
HEA
Programme
PRTLI4
Project Type
GREP
Project Title
 Environment-Transport Interface
From
2001
To
2004
Summary
Funding Agency
EPA
Programme
ERTDI
Project Type
Capacity Building
Project Title
 Global Environmental Modelling
From
2006
To
2008
Summary
Funding Agency
EC
Programme
FP7
Project Type
Integrated Research
Project Title
 Activity-Location Model for Personal Exposure to Air Pollution
From
2009
To
2013
Summary
Funding Agency
EPA
Programme
STRIVE
Project Type
Medium Scale
Project Title
 Regional air quality and forecast modelling
From
2013
To
2015
Summary
Funding Agency
EPA
Programme
Strive

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CEN Sub-Committee TC250/SC8 - Eurocode 8: Design provisions for structures in seismic regions 1995
Irish National Technical Contact for Eurocode 8 1995
National Eurocodes Advisory Committee (NEAC), National Standards Authority of Ireland 1995
Member and external member BSI Committee BS525/8: Eurocode 8 1992
Construct Innovate: National Construction Technology Centre, Member of Steering Committee 2022
SFI Centre for Research Training in AI, Member of Governance Committee 2021
Member of Journal Editorial Board: Buildings 2022
Biorbic SFI Research Centre, Member of Governance Committee 2021
Lero SFI Research Centre, Member of Governance Committee 2022
AMBER SFI Research Centre, Member of Board 2021
External expert to An Bord Pleanala for four MSW incineration plants (Poolbeg, Dublin; Carrenstown, Co. Meath; N7 Co Kildare and Ringaskiddy Co Cork) 2008
Member of journal Editorial Board: Advances in Civil Engineering 2019
Member of journal Editorial Board: Structures 2016
Scientific Journal Reviewer (including Atmospheric Environment, Earthquake Engineering & Structural Dynamics, Engineering Structures, Journal of Structural Engineering, Journal of Constructional Engineering Research, Structures, Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, Transportation Research Part D) 1994
UK Research Councils: Member of selection interview panel for the EPSRC Engineering Grand Challenges research call 2015
UK Research Councils - Reviewer of EPSRC Research Proposals (Centres for Doctoral Training; Individual Research Grants) 2016
Member of the Evaluation Panel: Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund (Proof of Concept) Research Programme 2004
Unitech International: Board Member and Vice-President Academic Partners 2013
CLUSTER - Consortium Linking European Universities of Science and Technology: Member of Steering Committee 2010
Institution of Structural Engineers, Republic of Ireland Branch Committee 1994
Engineers Ireland Accreditation Panel: University College Dublin, Civil Engineering Programmes (Bachelors and Masters) 2014
University of Nottingham: Departmental Review Panel, Civil Engineering 2017
University College Cork: University Programme Approval Panel ME in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering 2019
PhD External Examiner: Imperial College London, City University London, Jadavpur University, India; University of Parma, Italy; University College Dublin; NUI Galway. 2003
Imperial College London: External Examiner, MSc in Earthquake Engineering & MSc Structural Steel Design 2013
City University London: External Examiner, MSc Civil Engineering Structures 2014
UG External Examiner Sligo IT, Civil Engineering Programmes 2009
The Railway Inspectorate: Structural assessment of Cahir Railway Viaduct for 2003
UK Department of the Environment: Evaluation of the implications of the structural Eurocodes for the UK - Eurocode 8 1995
The Coca Cola Company: Floor vibration at Ballina Beverages 2000
The Heathrow Express: Fatigue life assessment of tunnel lining components 1998
Irish Environmental Researchers Association, Committee Member 2012
COST-319: Improving buildings structural quality by new technologies; Management Committee 1998
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
French Medium Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Member of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland
Institution of Structural Engineers
International Association of Bridge and Structural Engineering
Environmental Sciences Association of Ireland
Hollie Moore, John Hickey, Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald, An Inverse Stepped Beam Method for Bending Stiffness Estimation of Modular Buildings, Eurosteel 2026, Cracow, September 16-18, 202, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Hollie Moore, Maria Nogal, Brian Broderick, John Hickey and Breiffni Fitzgerald, ASSESSING THE RESILIENCE OF TALL BUILDING STRUCTURES TO INCREASED WIND LOADING USING SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS, 13th International Conference on Structural Dynamics (EURODYN), Hannover, 2026, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Hollie Moore , John Hickey , Brian Broderick , Breiffni Fitzgerald, Damping ratio identification of a volumetric modular high-rise building, Engineering Structures, 352, (122011), 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
James McAuliffe, Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald, A composite modelling approach for the fatigue analysis of offshore wind turbines considering corrosion-induced material degradation, Ocean Engineering, 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Kearney, M., Jacob, N., Guo, Y., Vasudevan, M., McNabola, A., Broderick, B., Caulfield, B., O"Mahony, M., Gallagher, J., Analysing the Impact of Diesel Trains on Air Quality in a semi-enclosed Railway station through mixed monitoring methods and XGBoost modelling, Environmental Pollution, 397, 2026, p128029 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Hollie Moore , Brian Broderick , Breiffni Fitzgerald , John Hickey, Fragility analysis of high-rise modular buildings with uncertain modal properties equipped with multiple vertically distributed tuned liquid dampers, Structures, 89, (112105), 2026, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Nguyen, Hoa and Broderick, Brian and Basu, Biswajit and Hickey, John, A systematic review of mechanical behaviour of dynamic power cables for offshore renewable energy, Wind Energy and Engineering Research, 2026, p100039 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
A composite model for evaluating fatigue life of offshore wind turbines equipped with a tuned mass damper in, editor(s)Alphose Zingoni , Engineering Materials, Structures, Systems and Methods for a More Sustainable Future, London, 2025, [James McAuliffe, Brian Broderick and Breiffni Fitzgerald], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI
Hollie Moore, John Hickey, Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald, Signal Processing of Acceleration Responses for Damping Ratio Identification of a High-Rise Modular Building, 17th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications, Dublin, Ireland, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  DOI
Hollie Morre, John Hickey,Brian Broderick, Breiffni Fitzgerald,Vincent Barrett, Shane Linehan, Wind-induced vibration response of modular high-rise buildings, The Structural Engineer, 103, (5), 2025, p8 - 10, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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D.P. McCrum, A.M. Wrzesien, J. Simon, M. Grimes, B. Broderick, J.B.P. Lim, Cyclic Performance of Cold"formed Steel Moment Resisting Frames, ce/papers, Eurosteel 2021, Sheffield, 4, (2-4), 2021, pp1837 - 1843, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
R Suhail, G Amato, B Broderick, M Grimes, D McCrum, Efficacy of prestressed SMA diagonal loops in seismic retrofitting of non-seismically detailed RC beam-column joints, Engineering Structures , 245, (112937), 2021, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
[J. Goggins, Y. Jiang, B.M. Broderick, S. Salawdeh, G.J. O'Reilly, A.Y. Elghazouli, H. Alwahsh, A. Bogdanovic, Z. Rakicevic, I. Gjorgjiev, A. Poposka, B. Petreski, I. Markovski, Experimental Testing of a Novel Self-Centring Steel Braced Frame on the Shake-Table in DYNLAB-IZIIS, 17th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering , Sendai, Japan, 4378 , 2020, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Philip Carthy, Aonghus Ó Domhnaill, O'Mahony Margaret, Anne Nolan, Frank Moriarty, Brian Broderick, Martina Hennessy, Aoife Donnelly, Owen Naughton and Seán Lyons, Local air pollution and asthma among over-50s in Ireland, ESRI Research Bulletin , (RB202008), 2020, p3 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Pilla F., Broderick B., A GIS model for commuters" exposure to air pollutants, 8th International Conference on Urban Climate (ICUC8), 522, 2012, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
R Ganguly, U Budd, BM Broderick and BDR Misstear, Applicability of a screening model at motorway and roundabout sites in Ireland, 9th World Congress on Environmental Health, Dublin, 18-23 June 2006, 2006, pp1 - 15, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
A.W. Reynolds and B.M. Broderick, Evaluating the impact of transport policies on the Dublin urban environment, Alumnus, 1999, p66 - 82, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
1st Place in Graduating Class, Civil Engineering, University College Dublin 1989
National University of Ireland Bursary in Civil Engineering 1989
Unwin Prize in Engineering, Imperial College London 1994
Oscar Faber Medal, The Institution of Structural Engineers, London 1995
Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin 2006
Trinity Global Engagement Award, TCD 2020
Structural Engineering Award, Council of Tall Buildings & Urban Habitat 2022
The central objective of my research is protection " of the built environment, of human health and of climate. I protect civil society by studying interactions between engineered and natural systems. Hence, my key research projects have developed improved methods for protecting buildings and their occupants during earthquakes, for protecting the health of individuals from exposure to air pollution and for protecting the climate through renewable energy production. My primary research approach is the integrated mathematical-information modelling of complex systems, especially the effects of environmental loads (earthquake and wind) on engineering structures, and the effects of anthropogenic emissions (e.g. road transport) on air quality. My research is highly multidisciplinary, and I have achieved research breakthroughs by exchanging ideas and methods between diverse fields. Hence my research spans disciplines from atmospheric scienceg to solid mechanics, and the research methods I employ include computational modelling, numerical simulation, experimental investigation and engineering design. I have collaborated and published with researchers from a wide variety of fields including engineers, environmental scientists, physicists, economists, clinicians, health scientists and seismologists. My research strengths in integrating information about real world processes with physical theory based mathematical models have allowed me to transform conventional approaches to globally important activities and achieve real impact through the generation of knowledge alongside my contributions to broader society. My research has made a unique and substantive contribution to a wide field and has had a high impact on policies and practices supporting societal protection, sustainable development, and economic efficiency. The main pathway for these contributions has been through the development of modelling tools that support innovation. For example, I have developed advanced air quality forecasting models to protect the health of vulnerable people, promoted renewable energy by creating methods for the simulation of the dynamic response of wind turbines, and extended urban resilience by improving the design of earthquake-resistant building structures. I have a sustained track-record of research achievement, having been awarded major research grants from several national (e.g. IRC, EPA) and international programmes (e.g. EU FP5-7, H2020), and maintained substantial research teams (PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and PIs) for over two decades. I have led multi-partner, multi-project European and national research programmes in more than one topic. I have published widely in fora that reach both scientific and professional engineering communities. As evidence of research leadership, I led the formation of the consortium recently awarded the National Construction Technology Centre by Enterprise Ireland. The lead PIs in all the other universities in this consortium completed their PhDs under my supervision or within our research group at Trinity. With initial platform funding of €5m, `ConstructInnovate" will contemporise the Irish construction industry. In the field of air quality, in which there had been almost no research activity before I joined Trinity, I have founded and led a research group that has published over 100 journal articles and won over €10M in research grants. As Associate Dean of Research and PI on the CHARM-EU TORCH project I am developing new University policies and strategies in Responsible Research and Innovation to ensure that Trinity remains at the forefront of European research practice.