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Prof. Middleton on Transforming Construction at SSESL 2015 Conference

16 October 2015

Prof. Campbell Middleton gave a presentation entitled Transforming Construction – Challenging the Status Quo at the Silver Jubilee International Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management organised by the Sri Lankan Society of Structural Engineers (SSESL) in August 2015 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The...

Dr Elshafie to be awarded the Russell Crampton Prize

8 October 2015

Dr Mohammed Elshafie , Laing O’Rourke Lecturer in Construction Engineering - who co-authored the paper Fibre Optic Monitoring of a Deep Circular Excavation with CSIC colleagues and industry partners Tina Schwamb, Kenichi Soga, Robert J. Mair, Richard Sutherden, Clotilde Boquet and John Greenwood – will be awarded the...

PhD studentship in BIM of Industrial Facilities - Oct 2016

8 October 2015

One four-year PhD studentship is available to start on 1 Oct 2016 at the Laing O’Rourke Centre, part of the Engineering Department at the University of Cambridge. The topic is automating the generation of as-is geometric models of industrial facilities. The project - supervised by Dr Ioannis Brilakis , Laing O’Rourke...

CEM03 student awarded Best Presentation Award

7 October 2015

CEM03 student Rico Salas was awarded the Best Presentation Award for his dissertation entitled Leading Indicators of Oil and Gas Construction Safety . Prof. Campbell Middleton presented the Award at a banquet dinner held at Queens' College.

CEM05 students attend first residential week

24 September 2015

Last week we welcomed the Cohort 5 of the Construction Engineering Masters (CEM)*. Young professionals from leading construction companies attended presentations and workshops run by industry, government and academic experts. Lectures and interactive group sessions covered key course themes such as finance, planning...

Dr Brilakis to give keynote speech at ETDP Conference

17 September 2015

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O’Rourke Lecturer in Construction Engineering, will give a keynote speech entitled “Virtualizing Bridges” at the 2nd annual Efficiency Through Digital Projects (ETDP) Conference , taking place in London on 10-11 November 2015.

Building the World of Tomorrow: innovation, carbon savings and sustainability

12 August 2015

Experts and leaders from the construction industry attended the Building the World of Tomorrow conference at the Department of Engineering on 21 July 2015. Prof. Campbell Middleton, Director of the LOR Centre, gave a presentation on smart sensors, outlining cutting-edge advances in building monitoring and the huge...

AMSCI £22.1m grant for innovative design and manufacturing research

5 August 2015

The Laing O’Rourke Centre and its partners at the University of Cambridge are proud to be part of the successful consortium, led by Laing O’Rourke, which was awarded £22.1m as part of the Government’s Advanced Manufacturing Supply Chain Initiative (AMSCI). Professor P. John Clarkson FREng, from the Cambridge Engineering...

Graduate student awarded IGS prize for best paper

22 July 2015

PhD student Talia da Silva has been selected as the winner of the International Geosynthetics Society’s (IGS) Student Contest 2015 with the paper ‘Physical modelling of Geosynthetic-Reinforced Soils Spanning Voids’. Talia is supervised by Laing O'Rourke Lecturer Dr Mohammed Elshafie.

BIM for Bridges in the New Civil Engineer

17 July 2015

One of our research projects in partnership with Laing O’Rourke has been featured in the New Civil Engineer in 10 Ways to Digitise the Construction Sector: No. 1 BIM for Bridges . The project, a collaboration between Laing O’Rourke, Tony Gee & Partners and the Laing O’Rourke Centre is supported by Innovate UK, which is...

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CEM Alumnus takes interoperability study to IGLC 33

5 June 2025

We are proud to announce that Marc Blancher, alumnus of the Construction Engineering Masters (CEM) programme , presented his conference paper at the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33) , held in Japan from 2–8 June 2025. Blancher’s paper, titled “ The Adaptive Interoperability...

Cambridge researchers call for evidence-based approach to lean construction at major global conference

4 June 2025

A new study led by researchers from the University of Cambridge's Laing O'Rourke Centre has been presented as a plenary session at the prestigious 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC) , held in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, from 2 to 4 June. The paper Where Is the Evidence of Performance...

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Prof. Middleton on Transforming Construction at SSESL 2015 Conference

Dr Elshafie to be awarded the Russell Crampton Prize

PhD studentship in BIM of Industrial Facilities - Oct 2016

CEM03 student awarded Best Presentation Award

CEM05 students attend first residential week

Dr Brilakis to give keynote speech at ETDP Conference

Building the World of Tomorrow: innovation, carbon savings and sustainability

AMSCI £22.1m grant for innovative design and manufacturing research

Graduate student awarded IGS prize for best paper

BIM for Bridges in the New Civil Engineer

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