Dr Rob Heywood FIEAust has a sustained interest in the risk-informed management of transport structures for decades. He is a founding director of FMA Engineering Services and a co-author of the Austroads Bridge Assessment Guideline: Heavy Vehicles published in September 2025. Rob is actively engaged in using bridge and heavy vehicle monitoring data to close the loop between assumptions and observed performance when optimising heavy vehicle access over bridges and to support risk-informed decision making. He brings over 50 years of experience as a structural engineer across consulting, academic, and public sector roles. Since 2010, Rob has collaborated with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR) to better understand the capabilities of its bridge assets, and since 2020, with the Department of State Growth.
