Dr Steve Garrity

Steve Garrity is a chartered civil, structural and highway engineer (CEng, MICE, FIStructE, FCIHT) with practical experience gained in the UK public and private sectors. He was also, until recently, a chartered building engineer (CBuildE, FCABE). 
Initially working for consu;ting engineers Sir Alexander Gibb and Partners (Sullom Voe Terminal, Jubail Industrial City) then Greater Manchester County Council (bridge design, assessment and supervision of construction). Between 2002 and 2009 Steve ran his own consultancy specialising in structural assessment, repair and strengthening with a particular focus on masonry bridges. He also undertook research into the strengthening and performance enhancement of reinforced concrete and masonry structures (including arches). 
Steve has worked at 3 UK universities as an academic gaining professorial status first in 2007 at the University of Bradford (where he was head of Civil & Environmental Engineering for 5 years) then at the University of Leeds where he held the Hoffman Wood chair in Architectural Engineering between 2009 and 2022. IHe also gained extensive experience of delivering CPD courses in the UK, Brunei, Ireland, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore. He has specialist knowledge and experience in the condition assessment and rehabilitation of concrete and masonry structures.
Steve has served as an external examiner for MEng, BEng and MSc programmes at Cardiff University, Imperial College London, Liverpool John Moores University, Newcastle University and now University College London. He also examined PhD candidates at several UK universities (including Cardiff, Cambridge, Imperial College London, Manchester, Salford, Sheffield and Surrey).
Steve gained approx 21 years experience of the UK civil engineering accreditation process as a member of the Joint Board of Moderators and/or the JBM panel of moderators. He chaired the JBM between 2014-17. He was also an invited external professorial member of the HKIE accreditation board between 2012 and 2017 and undertook accreditation visits in Hong Kong as recently as 2024.
He served on various panels and committees of the ICE and IStructE and has gained several awards for his work from the CIHT, ICE and IStructE (including the Sir Arnold Waters medal, the Cass Hayward Prize and the Lewis kent Award). He gained ICE Historic Bridge and Infastructure awards for his work on the rahabilitation of Hungerford Canal Bridge (2004) and St Helena Road Bridge, Bolton (2009).
Steve has provided advice on curriculum design and/or accreditation and assisted with civil engineering subject reviews as an external expert for several UK universities (including UCLan, Glamorgan, Swansea, Salford and Wolverhampton).
On 1st September 2025 Steve returned to full-time employment as senior lecturer in structural engineering at Leeds Beckett University, having worked part-time at Leeds Trinity University and the University of Bradford in 2023 and 2024, respectively, since leaving the University of Leeds in 2022.