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Benny Suryanto

Associate Professor

Campus
Edinburgh
School
School of Energy, Geoscience, Infrastructure and Society
Research Institute
Institute for Infrastructure and Environment
Email
B.Suryanto@hw.ac.uk
Research profile
Benny Suryanto

Biography

Benny joined the Institute for Infrastructure and Environment at Heriot-Watt University (now the Institute for Sustainable Built Environment) as an Assistant Professor in November 2012, following three years as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Tokyo (Hongo campus, Tokyo), funded by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.  He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2018 and currently leads the McCarter Civil Engineering Materials (CEM) Laboratory, advancing research in sustainable concrete technologies and durability assessment.

Benny successfully led the organisation of the Joseph Aspdin 200 International Symposium in 2024, celebrating the bicentenary of Joseph Aspdin’s patent for Portland cement and attracting leading academics and practitioners from across the globe.  The following year, he co-chaired and led the organisation of the 8th International Conference on Durability of Concrete Structures (ICDCS 2025), held for the first time in Scotland at Heriot-Watt University, bringing together international experts to advance research and practice in concrete durability.

Benny has won numerous awards for his research in concrete materials and structures, including two Best Paper Awards from the Journal of Advanced Concrete Technology (2010 & 2012), two prestigious awards from the Japan Concrete Institute (2011 & 2013), the Wen-Jei Yang Prize in 2005, and the Best Paper Prize (ICDCS) in 2018, along with several other domestic awards.  He was also awarded the 2018 Teaching and Learning Oscar.

Academic Biography
2015 Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Heriot-Watt University.

2009 PhD in Nonlinear Mechanics of Concrete, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Thesis entitled 'Nonlinear mechanics of high performance fibre reinforced concrete'. Supervisors: Prof Kohei Nagai and Prof Koichi Maekawa.

2005 MEng in Structural Engineering, Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand. Thesis entitled 'Adaptive forced based pushover analysis of reinforced concrete frames'.

2003 BEng in Civil and Structural Engineering, Petra Christian University, Indonesia, specialised in performance based assessment of reinforced concrete structures.