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Saving our concrete infrastructures at the World Economic Forum

10 February 2016

The Department of Engineering was represented at this year’s World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting by Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, who took part in IdeasLab sessions and gender-related events. The combination of such a broad spectrum of people and subjects coupled with the...

Professor Lord Mair gives annual Hinton Lecture

3 December 2015

Professor Lord Mair gave t he Royal Academy of Engineering Hinton Lecture on 24 November 2015. The Hinton Lecture is the flagship annual lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering. It is named after the late Lord Hinton of Bankside OM KBE FRS FEng, the first President of the Academy. Lord Mair addressed the challenges of...

Professor Mair appointed to House of Lords

13 October 2015

Professor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS of the Department of Engineering has been appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbencher. As a crossbencher, he will owe no allegiance to a political party and will maintain the ability to take part in legislative debates free of party considerations. Professor Mair is a...

Welcome reception for new students and visitors

12 October 2015

A very warm welcome was given to our new post graduate research students, fourth year students and visitors joining the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group in Division D at a reception on 9 October 2015.

Chang Ye Gue receives the Philip Turner Prize 2015

12 October 2015

Philip Turner was an outstanding mechanical engineer who designed a wide range of innovative devices. He made major formative contributions to the design of geotechnical centrifuges for the Schofield Centre. He was a design engineer in the Department of Engineering for many years and when he died he bequeathed in his will...

Professor Soga presents Skempton Lecture

28 September 2015

The inaugural Skempton Lecture of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, titled The Role of Distributed Sensing in Understanding the Engineering Performance of Geotechnical Structures, was given by CSIC Co-Investigator Professor Kenichi Soga. The opening day of the conference, hosted by...

Talia da Silva wins IGS Student Contest 2015

20 July 2015

Congratulations to Talia da Silva who was selected as the winner of the IGS (International Geosynthetics Society) Student Contest 2015 with her paper "Physical modelling of Geosynthetic-Reinforced soils spanning voids".

James Fern wins EMI 2015 Student Award

24 June 2015

Congratulations to James Fern, a PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Group who won first prize in the Dr Masao Stake Memorial Symposium on Granular Mechanics Student Poster Competition held at the Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI 2015) Conference in Stanford University, Stanford, California.

Cambridge awarded £18 million in funding to support UK infrastructure research

25 March 2015

The University of Cambridge will receive £18 million in funding to ensure that the UK’s infrastructure is resilient and responsive to environmental and economic impacts, as announced by the Chancellor in last week’s budget. The Cambridge funding will be used to support research in the application of advanced sensor...

Health-conscious concrete

25 March 2015

Roads that self-repair, bridges filled with first-aid bubbles, buildings with arteries… not some futuristic fantasy but a very real possibility with ‘smart’ concrete. Skin is renewable and self-repairing – our first line of defence against the wear and tear of everyday life. If damaged, a myriad of repair processes spring...

Saving our concrete infrastructures at the World Economic Forum

Professor Lord Mair gives annual Hinton Lecture

Professor Mair appointed to House of Lords

Welcome reception for new students and visitors

Chang Ye Gue receives the Philip Turner Prize 2015

Professor Soga presents Skempton Lecture

Talia da Silva wins IGS Student Contest 2015

James Fern wins EMI 2015 Student Award

Cambridge awarded £18 million in funding to support UK infrastructure research

Health-conscious concrete

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