Bridge and Road Forensic Engineering

Based on Forensic Engineering Approach to support Local Government Engineering Department (LEGD) to understand the principal investment areas required to improve the resilience of rural transport infrastructure (roads and bridges) in Bangladesh, to both acute shocks and chronic stresses induced by multiple sources, presently and potentially in the future. The specific objectives of this assignment are:To undertake a rapid national-level diagnosis to get an informed understanding of the vulnerability of rural road and bridge infrastructure network in Bangladesh and contributing factors of risk to inform a comprehensive strategic plan to reduce Infrastructure Failure and/or poor performance.

To develop a Failure Analysis methodology, including a “AutomatedTool Kit” to help LGED to identify key stages of the investigation, analysis and assign the appropriate failure responsibilities, along with recommendations/lesson learnt for future infrastructure design process. To develop Guidance Material on Failure Analysis of Bridge and Road infrastructure for further internal analysis and knowledge dissemination within LEGD.