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Joshua Macabuag
OccupationEngineer
Engineering career
DisciplineCivil Engineering
Disaster response
AwardsFREng

Joshua Macabuag is a civil engineer, who specialises in disaster response.

Early life & 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.

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.

His expertise in disaster response has led him to provide expertise during a number of major global disasters, including the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, Hurricane Irma and others. In 2018, Macabuag published a study in Geosciences into the effect of debris-induced damage in buildings. Macabuag has also published other studies into modelling vulnerabilities during natural disasters.

In 2021, Macabuag partnered with the World Bank to work as a disaster risk engineering consultant. Macabuag was a keynote speaker at the 14th Brunel International Lecture series, where he discussed disaster response. In 2023, he became a Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow.

References

  1. "Joshua Macabuag in Jozini". CNN. 2007.
  2. "Macabuag scoops papers award". New Civil Engineer. July 9, 2009.
  3. "Engineer shares Nepal earthquake experiences". Institution of Mechanical Engineers. May 13, 2015.
  4. "The Democratisation of Cat Models". University College London. November 3, 2022.
  5. MacAbuag, Joshua; Rossetto, Tiziana; Ioannou, Ioanna; Eames, Ian (March 2018). "Investigation of the Effect of Debris-Induced Damage for Constructing Tsunami Fragility Curves for Buildings". Geosciences. 8 (4): 117. Bibcode:2018Geosc...8..117M. doi:10.3390/geosciences8040117.
  6. De Bruijn, Jens A.; Daniell, James E.; Pomonis, Antonios; Gunasekera, Rashmin; MacAbuag, Joshua; De Ruiter, Marleen C.; Koopman, Siem Jan; Bloemendaal, Nadia; De Moel, Hans; Aerts, Jeroen C. J. H. (2022). "Using rapid damage observations for Bayesian updating of hurricane vulnerability functions: A case study of Hurricane Dorian using social media". International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction. 72. Bibcode:2022IJDRR..7202839D. doi:10.1016/j.ijdrr.2022.102839.
  7. Eliseev, Alex (August 5, 2021). "Engineering Extremes: Connecting engineering and humanity in disaster zones". Institution of Mechanical Engineers.
  8. "First Brunel Lecture gives global view of infrastructure resilience". New Civil Engineer. 20 October 2022.
  9. "Dr Joshua Macabuag FREng". Royal Academy of Engineering.


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