ERDA - Engineering Risk and Decision Analysis

Welcome to the Research Group Engineering Risk and Decision Analysis (ERDA)

The ERDA research group comprises a group of researchers within the Department of Civil Engineering in Technical University of Denmark, working on challenges in risk and decision analysis in civil engineering focussing on:

  • Engineering risk analysis
  • Decision support in civil engineering
  • Life safety
  • Natural hazard risks
  • Impacts of climate change
  • Sustainability

We strive for excellence in our research to support sustainable developments to the benefit of society.

Past events

The JCSS Advanced School Courses 2015 are supported by Assoc. Prof. Sebastian Thöns and Prof. Michael H. Faber. The course on "Probabilistic Modelling and Risk Analysis in Engineering" will be held at the Technical University of Denmark. Please find the announcement and the registration information here.
Topic: Probabilistic Modelling and Risk Analysis in Engineering
Dates: June 15-19, 2015
Place: Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Prof. Michael H. Faber and Assoc. Prof. Sebastian Thöns organise a Mini Symposium on the Value of Information in Civil Engineering at the ICASP12 conference.
Dates: July 12-15, 2015
Place: Vancouver, Canada

The COST Action TU1402: "Quantifying the Value of Structural Health Monitoring" chaired by Assoc. Prof. Sebastian Thöns has started.
Date: 01.01.2015

Henning Brüske joined CERDA as new PhD. student.
Date: 18.11.2014

Allan May joins CERDA as an external PhD student for a three months period. He is working in the project "Operational Expenditure Optimisation utilising Condition Monitoring for Wind Parks".
Date: 25.04.2014

PhD position on Structural Health Monitoring Systems Design - The Research Field ERDA invites applications for a 3-year PhD position starting in the next months in the field of Structural Health Monitoring Systems Design.
Date: 25.04.2014

On April 1st, 2014: Dr. Sebastian Thöns joined ERDA as an Associate Professor of Engineering Decision Analysis.

Assoc. Prof. Kazuyoshi Nishijima co-orgainzes a mini-symposium on Climate Change Risks to Civil Infrastructure at ICOSSAR2013.
Dates: June 16-20, 2013
Place: Columbia University, New York
Detailed information is available here.
Contact kazn@byg.dtu.dk for your contributions to the mini-sympoisum.

Prof. Michael H. Faber gave an invited lecture "On the Value of Structural Health Monitoring" at the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin.
Date: November 29, 2012
Place: BAM, Berlin
The presentation can be downloaded here. 

Prof. Michael H. Faber gave an invited lecture on performance based engineering  at the IABSE annual meeting in Seoul.
Date: September 19, 2012
Place: Seoul  

Prof. Michael H. Faber conducted a Life Quality Index Symposium.
Dates: August 21 - 23, 2012
Place: DTU, Lyngby
Detailed information is available here. 

Prof. Michael H. Faber gave an invited lecture on "Risk informed decision-making in engineering" at the Summer School on Risk organized by the Vienna University of Technology.
Date: August 1, 2012
Place: TU Wien
Detailed information is available here.  

Prof. Michael H. Faber conducted a summer school on "Robustness of Strucutres"
Dates: July 2 - 6, 2012
Place: Ohrid, Macedonia
Detailed information is available here.