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Congratulations to Raz Jabary, a PhD student in the Geotechnical and Environmental Group, who has won the Best Speaker/Presentation Award at the Second Annual Student Interdisciplinary Conference held at St Edmund's College on 20th February 2016.

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE CDT) are currently looking to recruit talented students to carry out cutting edge research within a broad range of core and interdisciplinary civil engineering topics. A number of fully funded studentships which cover fees plus a tax-free stipend (currently …

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 focus provided by the Foru…

Professor Lord Mair gave the 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 creating urban underground in…

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 world-renowned civil engine…

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 the British Geotechnical A…

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 technologies to the monitoring  …

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 into action to protect and …

Professor AbirAl-Tabbaa and Dr Janet Lees from the Department of Engineering and Dr Yun Bai from Civil Engineering at University College London (UCL) have been successful in the first ever EPSRC/NSFC call for a collaborative UK/China research project on Sustainable Materials for Infrastructure.  Together with their collaborators, Professor Jueshi Q…

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 10 October 2014.

Costain, the lead industry partner in the EPSRC research project Materials for Life (M4L), won a category award at the Fiatech Celebration of Technology Innovation (CETI) Awards ceremony in Huntington Beach, California, earlier this year. Costain won the ‘Intelligent self- Maintaining & Repairing Operational Facility’ category for its role in helpi…

The ICE Council have confirmed the election of Professor Robert Mair as one of two new Vice Presidents joining the Presidential Team for the 2014/15 presidential year from November. Read more about the election on the ICE website.

On Friday 24th February the Schofield Centre was delighted to host a visit by the His Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester. He was accompanied by Lt Col Alastair Todd, Private Secretary, and HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Hugh Duberly Esq CBE. Director of the Centre, Professor Gopal Madabhushi escorted the party down to the 10m diameter Cam…

Professor Robert Mair CBE, FREng, FRS has been appointed Chairman of the Department for Transport's Science Advisory Council.Professor Mair comments: “I am delighted to have been appointed to chair the Department for Transport's (DfT) Science Advisory Council. There is clearly a wide variety of important and challenging issues being addressed by th…

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 management of important engineerin…