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The Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology administers the Trimble Fund - 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 cons…

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Director of the Construction Information Technology Laboratory (part of the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology in the University of Cambridge) is the deputy coordinator of a new European research and training network in the area of Cloud-based Building Information Modelling - CBIM.The “Cloud BIM” …

The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) innovation awards recognise and celebrate the very best new innovations across the breadth of science, engineering and technology. This year the IET received over 360 entries for the innovation awards and we are delighted to announce that they have shortlisted Eva Agapaki, Laing O’Rourke Centre fo…

Exploring innovative opportunities for flexible project schedule design and executionAfter the launch of the research partnership between the University of Cambridge’s Construction Information Technology (CIT) Lab, nPlan and Kier, the Cambridge team continues to make progress in the exploration of the integrated schedule execution framework compris…

Future leaders in the business of construction present their research to help advance the construction industry and support transformation. Today, students undertaking the Construction Engineering Master of Studies degree (CEM) at the University of Cambridge will present their research to a packed audience at the programme’s annual dissertation con…

The Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology was delighted to meet Dr Tharaka Gunawardena of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing in the University of MelbourneDr Tharaka Gunawardena of the Centre for Advanced Manufacturing of Prefabricated Housing attended the recently concluded International Conf…

Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).Approximately half of Africa’s population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is als…

The Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology is moving with the University of Cambridge Civil Engineering Division to a building on West Campus. Designed by Grimshaw Architects, the Civil Engineering Building incorporates a number of pioneering and innovative aspects including an energy/cost metric to minimise energy usage,…

Congratulations to Eva Agapaki who has been highly commended by a new award set up by the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning to recognise outstanding contributions to education by students at the University of Cambridge.In 2019, the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning (CCTL) announced a new award to recognise the outstanding contribu…

Dr Juan M. D. Delgado, Dr Liam Butler, Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Dr Mohammed Elshafie and Professor Campbell R. Middleton received the 2019 J. James R. Croes Medal. The medal was awarded on 18 June in Atlanta, USA by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) for the article: "Structural Performance Monitoring Using a Data-Driven and Dynamic BIM Env…

PhD student at the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology receives research fellowship to continue work in satellite monitoring of infrastructure.We are delighted to announce that Laing O’Rourke Centre student Sakthy Selvakumaran has been awarded the Isaac Newton Trust/Newnham College Research Fellowship in Engineering. T…

The 2019 ICE Environmental Engineering and Science Prize has been awarded to a paper by lead authors from the Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology and the CDT in Future Infrastructure and the Built Environment.Each year, ICE Publishing acknowledges the best work published in their journals – awarding work judged to be o…

The annual Construction Engineering Masters debate moot for 2019 was: This House believes that the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry of 2050 will be unrecognisable to today.The topic invited insight, informed comment, passion and humour as the two teams presented their arguments to win the day. Clearly, the sector faces some…

In January 2019, the Resilience Shift’s Technical Advisory Group is headed to the United States of America’s West Coast to continue the Resilience Shift round-table series.Dr Kristen MacAskill - CEM Course Director will co-lead the city-scale modelling and simulation for infrastructure resilience round-table. The primary focus of this round-table i…

Ruodan Lu and Philipp Hüthwohl, two PhD candidates in the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, have won first prize at the 11th Innovation Competition in Construction Engineering and Management (ICCEM) held at Tsinghua University on 28th June 2018, in Beijing, China.Their project "Automated System for Generating Digita…