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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 8th International Conference on Urban Earthquake Engineering, held in Tokyo, Japan in March 2011. The paper presented i…

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 paper by Dr Indrasenan Th…

Student papers win awards at Environmental Science and Technology Conference29 November 2010Two 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 Environmental Science and Technology, orga…

Awarded CBE in this year's honours listProf Mair, who is also Master of Jesus College, is a world authority on tunnelling. He has been involved in the Jubilee Line extension for London Underground, and the Channel Tunnel rail link, as well as railway tunnel projects in a host of other European cities, including Amsterdam, Barcelona and Rome.

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 technologies - ensuring the UK …

Congratulations to Professor Kenichi Soga, Dr. Campbell Middleton and Paul Fidler, who together with Professor Neil Hoult and Dr. Peter Bennett (both formerly of the Department) and 3 collaborators at Imperial College, have been awarded the 2010 Telford Gold Medal by the Institution of Civil Engineers for their paper "Wireless sensor networks: crea…