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Read more at: Professor Kenichi Soga gives twelfth Croce Lecture at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy.
Professor Kenichi Soga gives twelfth Croce Lecture at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy.

Professor Kenichi Soga gives twelfth Croce Lecture at the Italian National Research Council in Rome, Italy.

14 January 2014

The Croce Lecture is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Arrigo Croce, first professor of Soil Mechanics in Italy, former President of the Italian Geotechnical Society and former Vice-President for Europe of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering. The annual lecture is...

Read more at: Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa elected Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers
Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa elected Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers

Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa elected Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers

8 January 2014

Congratulations to Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa who has been elected Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers Fellow is the highest grade of membership of the ICE and is awarded to members who are or have been engaged in a role of significant responsibility in the promotion, planning, design, construction, maintenance or...

Read more at: ICE Awards for Professors Mair and Madabhushi
ICE Awards for Professors Mair and Madabhushi

ICE Awards for Professors Mair and Madabhushi

18 November 2013

Two prestigious awards were presented to Professor Robert Mair and Professor Gopal Madabhushi at the recent Awards Ceremony at the Institution of Civil Engineers inLondon. The President’s Medal was presented to Professor Mair and the T K Hsieh Award to Professor Madabhushi and his co-authors. The citation for Professor...

Read more at: Self-healing concrete 'most likely to change the world'
Self-healing concrete 'most likely to change the world'

Self-healing concrete 'most likely to change the world'

7 November 2013

A project that aims to create construction materials with an inbuilt self-healing system was voted the most likely research to have the biggest global impact, as well as the most likely to have the biggest effect on human lives, at this year's British Science Festival. "I hope that in the next 2-3 years we will be...

Read more at: Welcome to new students and visitors
Welcome to new students and visitors

Welcome to new students and visitors

17 October 2013

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 11 October 2013.

Read more at: Michael Williamson receives the Philip Turner Prize 2013
Michael Williamson receives the Philip Turner Prize 2013

Michael Williamson receives the Philip Turner Prize 2013

15 October 2013

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...

Read more at: Tanvir Qureshi wins award at International Self-healing Materials Conference
Tanvir Qureshi wins award at International Self-healing Materials Conference

Tanvir Qureshi wins award at International Self-healing Materials Conference

2 October 2013

Tanvir Qureshi, a first year PhD student in civil engineering, was the proud recipient of the 'Wiley Poster Award' at the 4th International Conference on Self-Healing Materials, for the best poster in the Construction Materials category. "I was very surprised to receive this award as I am only a first year PhD student, but...

Read more at: Cambridge in Africa Programme to facilitate trial road construction in the Niger Delta

Cambridge in Africa Programme to facilitate trial road construction in the Niger Delta

14 August 2013

Image caption: Funmi, at a location in the Niger Delta area, taken last summer, when collecting soil samples for laboratory testing The trial construction of a road in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria has been made possible through generous funding from the Cambridge-Africa Alborada Research Fund through the Cambridge in...

Read more at: Professor Kenichi Soga elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering
Professor Kenichi Soga elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

Professor Kenichi Soga elected Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering

31 July 2013

Congratulations to Professor Kenichi Soga of the Department of Engineering on being elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. "We warmly welcome our new Fellows to the Academy. With their expertise, knowledge and vision we will continue to strengthen our ambition of providing authoritative, impartial, and expert...

Read more at: BBC Frontiers programme about Crossrail and the work carried out at the Schofield Centre
BBC Frontiers programme about Crossrail and the work carried out at the Schofield Centre

BBC Frontiers programme about Crossrail and the work carried out at the Schofield Centre

16 July 2013

Crossrail Tunnelling Wed, 10 Jul 13 Duration: 29 mins Tracey Logan goes underground to find out how Crossrail is using the latest engineering techniques to create 26 miles of tunnels below London's tube network. Interview with Professor Robert Mair: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/frontiers

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