Nuno Marques de Almeida

Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Environment of the University of Lisbon (IST) and a member of the research unit Civil Engineering Research and Innovation for Sustainability (CERIS).

For the past 25 years, Nuno has been engaged with entrepreneurial, professional, research and academic activities focused on protecting and deriving value from engineering assets and asset systems, mainly through the assimilation of innovative management and technological solutions for critical infrastructure, buildings, equipment and advanced industrial facilities, of both the public and private sectors, towards more resilient cities and societies.

Nuno’s activities in engineering asset management include professional development training and mentoring, orchestration of multistakeholder ecosystems, and the advising for transdisciplinary research and consultancy projects in the construction, real estate, water, energy, transportation, energy, defence and education sectors. Nuno has chaired the Portuguese “mirror” committee to ISO/TC251 Asset Management and was a founding member of the Iberian chapter of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management. He is currently the Vice-Chair for the new specialization on asset management in the Portuguese Order of Engineers and acts as an assessor for accredited Certification of ISO 55001 Asset Management Systems (ISO/IEC 17021-5) in the Portuguese accreditation body.