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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...

Third annual CEM dissertation conference

15 July 2015

Our MSt candidates presented their research findings ahead of the final submission of their thesis in November at a Dissertation Conference held at Robinson College on 3 July 2015. The research themes covered topical issues in the construction sector such as Health and Safety Knowledge Transfer, Risk Management, Public...

Prof. Middleton attends CSIC WSN networking dinner

10 July 2015

Prof. Campbell Middleton, Director of the Laing O'Rourke Centre, attended the networking dinner of the Cambridge Conference on Wireless Sensor Network for Civil Engineering and Infrastructure (CSIC WSN), on 29 June 2015 at Jesus College. The CSIC WSN conference, held on Monday 29th and Tuesday 30th June, gathered experts...

New Visiting Professor for Laing O'Rourke Centre

6 March 2015

Shaun Fitzgerald has joined us as Visiting Professor in Sustainable Buildings

£1.2 mil TSB award for the Laing O'Rourke Centre's CIT group together with Laing O'Rourke Llc, and Tony Gee and Partners

3 November 2014

The consortium of Laing O'Rourke(LOR), Tony Gee and Partners, and the Laing O'Rourke Centre's CIT group at the University of Cambridge has been selected for an award of £1,2 mil for Digitally Enabling the Design for Manufacture, Assembly and Maintenance (DfMA) of Bridges by the UK Technology Strategy Board. This grant is...

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

Third annual CEM dissertation conference

Prof. Middleton attends CSIC WSN networking dinner

New Visiting Professor for Laing O'Rourke Centre

£1.2 mil TSB award for the Laing O'Rourke Centre's CIT group together with Laing O'Rourke Llc, and Tony Gee and Partners

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