Structures Committee

This committee supports the Infrastructure & Asset Management Council. It is a centre of expertise within TAC and a national forum for sharing information and addressing challenges related to transportation structures including bridges, overpasses, tunnels, buried structural culverts, overhead sign structures, and retaining walls.

Its goals include:

  • Identifying research needs related to transportation structures and the factors that influence their safety, performance, service life and sustainability through planning, design, construction, inspection, maintenance, preservation, rehabilitation and decommissioning activities
  • Developing and promoting transportation structures research and guidance

Getting Involved

Committee membership is open to interested employees of TAC member organizations and individual members of TAC.

The Committee meets during TAC’s Spring and Fall Technical Meetings and at other times as needed. Employees of TAC member organizations and individual TAC members may attend; others may attend if invited by the Chair.

Executive

Chair 
Robert Simpson

New Brunswick Department of Transportation and Infrastructure

Vice-Chair
Kamran Ata

Government of the Northwest Territories Department of Infrastructure

Secretary
Azita Azarnejad

Jacobs

Past Chair
Michael Paulsen

Associated Engineering Group Ltd.