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Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology

 

We are delighted to announce the two successful proposals of the 2022 Trimble Fund:

 

Online unsupervised early damage detection and modal analysis of a railway bridge based on monitored train-induced dynamic vibrations. 

Principal Investigator: Dr Jennifer Schooling

 

Human-robot Cooperation Simulator for Remote Manipulation in Construction. 

Principal Investigator: Professor Fumiya Iida

 

About the Trimble Fund

The Trimble Fund is a ten-year, £500k commitment from Trimble to the University of Cambridge.  The aims of the Fund are specifically to:

  1. enable world-class academic research that has the potential to achieve a significant impact across geospatial  technology for the construction engineering sector;
  2. develop the students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in the research so that they are ready to champion construction information technology in academia and industry;
  3. raise the profile of advanced construction information technology in the construction sector across academic disciplines and publicly.

Further information can be found here.

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