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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%...

Welcome to new students and visitors

24 October 2011

A very warm welcome was given to our new post graduate research students and visitors joining the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group in Division D at a reception on 5 October 2011.

Charles Heron Receives the Philip Turner Prize 2011

20 October 2011

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...

Congratulations to Darren SC Chian

13 September 2011

Congratulations to Darren SC Chian, a PhD student of the Geotechnical & Environmental Research Group for being awarded the Best Presentation Award Plaque in recognition of his outstanding contributions as a young researcher in the 8 th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, held in Tokyo, Japan in...

Paper on ‘tsunami resistant’ houses wins the Institution of Civil Engineers Bill Curtin prize

4 April 2011

The Asian tsunami of 26 December 2004 showed the catastrophic devastation that could be caused by a tsunami to human lives, infrastructure and economy. The tsunami claimed more than 220,000 lives and made almost 800,000 people homeless. The total economic cost of the catastrophe is estimated to be more than £7·5 billion. A...

Student papers win awards at Environmental Science and Technology Conference 29 November 2010

4 April 2011

Student papers win awards at Environmental Science and Technology Conference 29 November 2010 Two PhD students of the Geotechnical & Environmental Group , Claudiane Ouellet-Plamondon and Reginald Kogbara were among seven recipients of the Outstanding Student Paper Awards at the 5th International Conference on...

Cise Unluer wins Dow Sustainability Student Award 2010

9 December 2010

Cise Unluer wins Dow Sustainability Student Award 2010 Cise Unluer, a second year PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Research Group, has won the Cambridge University 2010 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Award. The competition is organised by the Cambridge Programme for Sustainability...

Professor Robert Mair Awarded CBE in this year's honours list

9 December 2010

Mark Stringer Receives the Philip Turner Prize 2010

9 December 2010

New 'Innovation and Knowledge Centre' worth a total of £17million awarded to Engineering Department

9 December 2010

Funding has been announced for two major new research centres, one of which is to be based at the Department of Engineering. This 'Innovation and Knowledge Centre' (IKC) on Smart Infrastructure and Construction will combine business knowledge with the most up-to-date research to harness the full potential of emerging...

Professor M D Bolton to give 52nd Rankine lecture

Welcome to new students and visitors

Charles Heron Receives the Philip Turner Prize 2011

Congratulations to Darren SC Chian

Paper on ‘tsunami resistant’ houses wins the Institution of Civil Engineers Bill Curtin prize

Student papers win awards at Environmental Science and Technology Conference 29 November 2010

Cise Unluer wins Dow Sustainability Student Award 2010

Professor Robert Mair Awarded CBE in this year's honours list

Mark Stringer Receives the Philip Turner Prize 2010

New 'Innovation and Knowledge Centre' worth a total of £17million awarded to Engineering Department

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