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Ziyad Abunada receives the AINAC 2012 award for best paper

14 January 2013

Ziyad Abunada of the Geotechnical & Environmental Research Group was the recipient of the best paper award at the First Arab Innovation Network Annual Conference (AINAC 2012) on the theme of Environment. The conference was organised by a group of Arab researchers from the University of Cambridge (UK) working on an...

Professor Robert Mair on The Life Scientific

14 January 2013

http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/stories/2013/Robert_Mair_radio_4/ Each week, Professor Jim Al-Khalili talks to leading scientists about their life and work, finding out what inspires and motivates them and asking what their discoveries might do for mankind. This week he talks to Robert Mair, Professor of Civil Engineering at...

David O’Connor Wins Award at Sustainable Remediation Conference 2012

7 January 2013

David O’Connor was the recipient of the best poster award at the 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Remediation which took place in Vienna in November 2012. The event was organised by the Environment Agency Austria in cooperation with the US Environmental Protection Agency, CL:AIRE (Contaminated Land: Applications...

Krishna Soundararajan awarded the Professor C. S. Desai Award for 2012 by the Indian Geotechnical Society

13 December 2012

"An Endochronic Approach in Modelling Liquefaction of Sand”; Krishna Kr. Soundararajan and Boominathan Adimoolam, published in the Proceedings of 14th ARC 2011, Hong Kong, has been judged as the best paper on “Constitutive Modelling for Geologic Materials” and is awarded the Professor C. S. Desai Award for 2012 by the...

Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group seminars - change of day

13 December 2012

Commencing 17 January 2013 the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group seminars will be held at 4.00 pm on Thursdays.

Welcome to new students and visitors

4 October 2012

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 3 October 2012.

Paul Shepley receives the Philip Turner Prize 2012

4 October 2012

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...

Infrastructure Revolution

13 June 2012

Technology has advanced to the point where the condition of bridges, tunnels and buildings can be monitored in unprecedented detail. Now a new Centre at Cambridge has been formed to kick-start the smart infrastructure revolution. "London Underground needs to know if the Northern Line is good for another 20 years, or...

Professor M D Bolton gives 52nd Rankine lecture

23 April 2012

Malcolm Bolton, Professor of Soil Mechanics, Director of the Schofield Centre for Geotechnical and Construction Modelling, and Head of the Geotechnical and Environmental Group in the Department of Engineering delivered the 52 nd Rankine Lecture entitled “Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering” at Imperial...

Professor M D Bolton to give 52nd Rankine lecture

2 November 2011

Professor Malcolm Bolton has been invited to give the 52nd Rankine lecture on 21 March 2012 starting at 1730. The title of the lecture is Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering Further details can be found on the British Geotechnical Association's website: http://bga.city.ac.uk/cms/html/2012%2052nd%20Rankine%...

Ziyad Abunada receives the AINAC 2012 award for best paper

Professor Robert Mair on The Life Scientific

David O’Connor Wins Award at Sustainable Remediation Conference 2012

Krishna Soundararajan awarded the Professor C. S. Desai Award for 2012 by the Indian Geotechnical Society

Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group seminars - change of day

Welcome to new students and visitors

Paul Shepley receives the Philip Turner Prize 2012

Infrastructure Revolution

Professor M D Bolton gives 52nd Rankine lecture

Professor M D Bolton to give 52nd Rankine lecture

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