The Hon TONY GIBBS CHB FREng FRSA BSc DCT(Leeds) FIStructE FICE FAPE FASCE FRICS HonTTIA

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Tony Gibbs was a Commonwealth Scholar at The University of Leeds.

He is Past President of The Barbados Association of Professional Engineers and a Past Vice President of The Institution of Structural Engineers (HQ in UK).

Mr Gibbs was Associate Project Manager for the Caribbean Uniform Building Code; Director of the American Association for Wind Engineering; Member of The International Codification Forum of The International Association for Wind Engineering; Member of the Scientific Planning Group on Natural Hazard Risk Reduction of the International Science Council (Latin America and Caribbean) and Member of the Governing Board of the Global Earthquake Model.

Mr Gibbs' special interests are in the fields of collaborative design in multi-disciplinary teams and designing against

the natural hazards of hurricanes and earthquakes. He is particularly interested in the interrelationship between

engineering and insurance and has assisted Risk Management Solutions (California), AIR Worldwide (Boston) and

Cambridge Architectural Research with the development of their Caribbean loss models.

In 1991 he received the International Award "For (his) Very Significant Contributions to Hurricane Loss Reduction

and Hurricane Safety in the Caribbean" at the US National Hurricane Conference; and an award "In Recognition

of (his) Contribution to the Advancement and Promotion of Structural Engineering in the Caribbean" from The

Barbados Association of Professional Engineers. In 1998 he received the award of Career of Excellence in

Engineering from the Association of Professional Engineers of Trinidad & Tobago. In 2003 Mr Gibbs received the

Lewis Kent Award from The Institution of Structural Engineers (UK) for services to engineering and to The

Institution. Mr Gibbs received the UN-ISDR Sasakawa Award for Disaster Reduction in 2007. In 2010 he was

named as a Caribbean Icon in Science, Technology & Innovation by the National Institute of Higher Education,

Research, Science and Technology (Trinidad & Tobago). In 2012 the status of Honorary Member of the Trinidad

& Tobago Institute of Architects was conferred on Tony Gibbs “in recognition of (his) distinguished and outstanding

record of achievements both in (his) field together with (his) support, recognition, encouragement and promotion

of the profession and practice of architecture in Trinidad and Tobago, the Caribbean and internationally." In 2019

The Institution of Structural Engineers (UK) presented him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2022 he was

Recognised by the Pan American Health Organisation as a Champion of Structural Engineering and Building

Standards in the Caribbean.

In 2012 Tony Gibbs became the first person in the Caribbean to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of

Engineering.

In 2020 Tony Gibbs became the first engineer to receive the award of Companion of Honour of Barbados.