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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 Mair stated: “The ICE Presiden…

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 reporting on field trials of self-h…

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 was of course extremely de…

 Image caption: Funmi, at a location in the Niger Delta area, taken last summer, when collecting soil samples for laboratory testingThe 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 Africa Programme.  This is…

Crossrail TunnellingWed, 10 Jul 13Duration:29 minsTracey 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

Three talented female PhD students in the department were the proud recipients of the Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowships for their PhD studies at Cambridge University. All three are in the Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental group and supervised by Dr Abir Al-Tabbaa.The Schlumberger Foundation Faculty for the Future fellowship…

AECOM's Dr. Johnny Cheuk was named 2013 Young Engineer of the Year by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.Dr. Johnny Cheuk, geotechnical engineer with AECOM Technology Corporation in Hong Kong was named  2013 Young Engineer of the Year by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). The prestigious honour recognizes outstanding young engineers…

 The Department of Engineering will play a major part in a new £3.1M EPSRC and industry funded UK Centre of Excellence on Intelligent Construction Materials from the recent EPSRC Ground and Structural Engineering Challenge call."This is a very exciting opportunity for ground, structural and materials engineering, chemistry and biology researchers t…

Dr Matthew DeJong and Professor Robert Mair have successfully secured an EPSRC grant for a research project on Tunnelling-Induced Settlement Damage to Masonry Structures."This is an excellent example of a project that will, I am sure, be of direct relevance to Crossrail and the tunnelling industry. "—Professor Robert MairIn addition to the EPSRC gr…

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 the University of Cambridg…

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 in Real Environments) a…

"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 Indian Geotechnical Societ…

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 another 80, or longer. At the mom…

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 52ndRankine Lecture entitled “Performance-based design in geotechnical engineering” at Imperial College on 21 March 2012.  The …

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 engineeringFurther details can be found on the British Geotechnical Association's website:http://bga.city.ac.uk/cms/html/2012%2052nd%20Rankine%20Lecture.pdf