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-Tabbaa, Dr 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:
- enable world-class academic research that has the potential to achieve a significant impact across geospatial technology for the construction engineering sector;
- develop the students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in the research so that they are ready to champion construction information technology in academia and industry;
- raise the profile of advanced construction information technology in the construction sector across academic disciplines and publicly.
Further information can be found here.