David Cormie
Director
- Global Resilience, Security and Risk Leader
David leads the Resilience, Security and Risk team at Arup, and has over 20 years of experience advising public and private sector clients, government and regulators on the design of landmark and high-profile, high-threat buildings, infrastructure systems and assets world-wide.
Made of over 50 people, his team helps clients to minimise risk and to build resilience into their projects against hostile and accidental threats, and assists them in protecting people, assets and systems and business operations in the rail, airport, commercial, financial, data and sports and leisure sectors.
He has always advocated a closely-integrated approach to security design from the earliest stages of the design process, in order to ensure that resilience is efficiently and effectively achieved and is integrated with other design criteria. His work is a source of tremendous satisfaction as he has played a part in allowing communities to thrive and in making the world a safer and more secure place.
With a structural engineering background, David is passionate about research and development in blast and structural resilience. He authored the leading text in the field of blast engineering, Blast Effects on Buildings and is actively involved in a wide range of research initiatives centred around quality in structural engineering and the advancement of knowledge. In the field of structural robustness David has led a major research study for the UK Government and authored a technical manual for the Institution of Structural Engineers on the robustness of high-risk buildings. He firmly believes in the importance of continual development of the field and in the part we can play in advancing and disseminating knowledge in a field that remains under-researched.