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Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology

 

We are delighted to announce the four successful proposals of the 2023 Trimble Fund:

Microtunnelling: Intelligent Construction Control (MIC2) 

Principal Investigators: Dr Pin Zhang and Dr Brian Sheil

Digital Twin-based Spatiotemporal Prediction of Pavement Performance

Principal Investigators: Dr Yiming Zhang and Dr Georgios
Hadjidemetriou.

Multimodal remote sensing to monitor bridge scour risks

Principal Investigator: Dr Sakthy Selvakumaran

Mobile Computer Vision-based Road Pre-damage Detection

Principal Investigators: Prof Abir Al-TabbaaDr Christos Vlachakis, Dr Damian Palin and Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou.

 

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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