Dr Sathees Nava

Sathees Nava

Position: Lecturer, Civil Engineering
Discipline: Engineering
Phone: +61 3 5327 6204
Email: s.nava@federation.edu.au

Qualifications

  • PhD in Structural Engineering

Biography

Dr Sathees Nava is a lecturer in the Institute of Innovation, Science and Sustainability at Federation University. He has over 17 years of research and industry experience in the UK, Australia, Singapore, and Sri Lanka, specialising in major fields of Civil and Structural Engineering, building design, and construction. He works in the areas of structural timber framing, steel structures, prefabricated buildings and mass timber construction systems, followed by individual joint tests, full-scale tests, fire tests, wind tunnel model analysis, computational fluid dynamics and finite element models.

Teaching areas

  • ENGIN 2202: Concrete Technology
  • ENGIN 4203: Engineering Construction (Introduction to the Intelligent Construction Technologies (ICT)
  • ENGPG 9105: Construction Engineering 2
  • ENGIN 3203: Traffic and Transport
  • Steel, timber and complex structures design

Extended research profile