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On the 14th of September, 2018, the 6th cohort of the Construction Engineering Masters (CEM) Programme will be presenting at this year's Dissertation Conference.Each student will present findings from their dissertation research and there will be time for questions and networking. This is a great opportunity for invitees to meet with and listen to …

Sakthy Selvakumaran MA (Cantab) MEng CEng MICE on TEDx: Can satellites help us predict infrastructure collapses?Sakthy, one of our Laing O'Rourke Centre students is currently undertaking an Industrial Case PhD sponsored by the National Physical Laboratory, with additional sponsorship from Laing O'Rourke, on risk and resilience of infrastructure thr…

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald will be giving a Discourse about The Physics of Hot Air from 7.20pm to 8.45pm, Thursday 24 May 2018 at Royal Institution.More information about this event...

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O’Rourke Reader and Dr Bella Nguyen and the co-author Patricio Vela, have been selected by the Construction Institute to receive the prestigious ASCE 2018 John O. Bickel Award for the paper, “Optimized Parameters for Over-Height Vehicle Detection under Variable Weather Conditions”, published in the September 2017 issue of…

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, RAEng Visiting Professor in Sustainable Buildings based in the Department of Engineering's Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering & Technology, has been appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri).http://www.rigb.org/about/news/spring-2018/director-announcement

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The LOR Centre congratulates Eva Agapaki (one of Dr Ioannis Brilakis PhD Students), on receiving the award for the Best "Rising Star" poster at the 4th Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference, held on 16 March 2017 at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.Further conference information can be found at http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/o…

Read about our Construction Information Technology Laboratory's ground breaking work on Building Information Models.

We are pleased to welcome Dr Weiwei Lin of Waseda University, Tokyo, as an Academic Visitor to the Department of Engineering.Dr Lin will be working with staff from the Laing O’Rourke Centre and the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) on advanced modelling techniques for bridge assessment until April 2017.

Campbell Middleton, Professor of Construction Engineering at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed to the Independent Design Panel for High Speed Two.The Panel is the project’s independent advisor on design and includes specialists in procurement, engineering, architecture,  town planning, rail, branding and community engagement.   Profes…

PhD candidate Sakthy Selvakumaran proposes a fresh approach to the engineering skills shortage in her blog for the Institution of Civil Engineers

Congratulations to Philip Durkin who has won the 2016 3rd year Prize for Civil and Environmental Engineering.Professor Cam Middleton, The Laing O'Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering and Technology, presented the prize on behalf of Laing O'Rourke at a special ceremony held in the Department last week.

The Laing O’Rourke Centre's Construction Information Technology (CIT) research group published five papers and brought home both major awards from the 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE) earlier this year.Held from 6-8 July 2016 in Osaka, Japan, the conference focused on applications of information …

Applications are invited from within the University of Cambridge for research funds of up to £50k to be spent during 2017 on areas of research relevant to Trimble Inc.Deadline: 31st October 2016.  Find out more

Laing O'Rourke Centre student Stefania-Christina Radopoulou has been awarded a Fiatech Outstanding Student Research Project prize for her work in developing road infrastructure sensor systems in vehicles.Read more about this latest accolade for Laing O'Rourke Centre research