Albert Bleakley, Ph.D.
Associate Professor | Mechanical and Civil Engineering
- Melbourne FL UNITED STATES
Dr. Bleakley's research interests include disaster response, leadership in engineering organizations and construction safety.
Areas of Expertise
About
Dr. Bleakley also served in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Germany and multiple U.S. locations. He deployed to the first and second Gulf Wars, Somalia and Bosnia, leading facilities construction and management organizations. He was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries suffered in a car bombing of his office in Saudi Arabia.
He previously taught civil engineering at the University of Texas, San Antonio, and the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY.
His areas of expertise include leadership in engineering organizations, international construction, infrastructure public policy, construction management, construction contracting, and recycled materials for highway construction.
Media Assets
Media Appearances
Bottom-up failure offers clues to cause
Washington Post print
2021-06-30
A Washington Post examination of video and other images from the deadly collapse of a high-rise condominium building outside Miami — along with interviews with structural engineers, a key witness and an investigator — deepens questions about whether existing damage to a deck in the pool area contributed to the disaster.
Surfside, Florida, building collapse
Fox News tv
2021-06-25
Dr. Bleakley featured in a Fox News article on the shocking collapse of the Surfside condo building in South Florida.
40 years later, many still recall deadly Cocoa Beach construction accident
Florida Today print
2021-03-26
March 27, 1981 was a beautiful, sunny Friday afternoon in Cocoa Beach. But it was also one of the darkest days in the city's history. Workers were pouring concrete for the roof slab of a new five-story condominium, Harbour Cay, when the structure pancaked to the ground, killing 11 and injuring 23 more.
Majoring in Construction Gets More Popular
U.S. News & World Report print
2017-08-10
College students can study anything from accounting to zoology, but there's one discipline that's becoming especially popular. Construction trades had the largest percentage increase in enrollment at four-year institutions between spring 2016 and spring 2017 – 26.4 percent – according to a recent report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
Education
US Military Academy West Point
B.S.
Engineering Mechanics & Literature
1979
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M.S.
Civil Engineer
1985
Florida Institute of Technology
Ph.D.
Civil Engineering
2012
Social
Selected Articles
Ground tire rubber as a stabilizer for subgrade soils.
Florida Dept. of Transportation Research Center2014
Improving Strength and Creep of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Base Course Blends with Combinations of Chemical Stabilizers
Transportation Research Board 94th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board2015
Statewide Variability of Florida’s Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement
Transportation Research Board 94th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board2015
Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement-Sand Blends Stabilized with Asphalt Emulsion and Portland Cement
Transportation Research Board 95th Annual MeetingTransportation Research Board2016
Improving design phase evaluations for high pile rebound sites : final report
Florida Dept. of Transportation Research Center2016
Languages
- French
- Arabic
- German
Accomplishments
Federal Engineer of the Year
2005
US Army Corps of Engineers