Research interests range across:

• Masonry materials and structures
• Conservation of historic and prehistoric monuments
• Limit analysis of masonry structures using discontinuity layout optimization
• Reinforced and prestressed concrete structural design and connection detailing
• Concrete technology
• Utilisation of building waste in the production of masonry units, or as replacement materials in concrete
• Waste management and recycling of inert excavation, construction and demolition waste
• Structural steelwork design and connection detailing
• Buckling of thin-walled cold formed sections
• Composite structures
• Glass structures
• Tensegrity structures
• Structural cladding systems
• Structural repair interventions
• Rock material characterisation
• Structural optimization
• Structural reliability analysis and design of bridge and offshore structures
• Structural dynamics and vibration analysis
• Earthquake engineering and seismic vulnerability analysis of unreinforced and reinforced masonry buildings