News

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, procurement, technological innov…

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. 

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 implications for the industry, espe…

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 Design Centre, commented: "T…

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. 

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 funding collaborative research …

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 Perception of Hydraulic Fract…

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 from UK and international u…

Shaun Fitzgerald has joined us as Visiting Professor in Sustainable Buildings Dr Shaun Fitzgerald has been named a Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) Visiting Professor in Sustainable Buildings and will be based in the Department of Engineering's Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering & Technology.Dr Shaun Fitzgerald is Co-Founder an…

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 trying to address a major ch…

One of the Centre's Construction Engineering Masters students, Rico Salas, has recently had one of his research papers, originally produced as an essay for the course, accepted by the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) E&P HSSE Conference for presentation and proceeding publication.We would like to congratulate Rico on this achievement and look f…

We would like to congratulate C.Y. Gue, a student at the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, on being awarded the best paper award at the 5th international forum on opto-electronics sensor-based monitoring in geo-engineering that was held in Nanjing in October. His paper, titled ‘BOTDR Distributed Fibre Optic Strain S…

William F. Baker has joined us from SOM Chicago as a Visiting Research Fellow.The Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology is pleased to welcome William F. Baker as a Visiting Research Fellow for the 2014/15 academic year.  In addition to working with the Centre, he will also be a Visiting Fellow at King's College during th…

Prof J.S. Kuang of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology will be giving a special seminar on Thursday 16th October at 1600 for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology.Catastrophic failure of infilled reinforced concrete frames has repeatedly been reported in many devastating earthquakes in the world, of wh…

Stefania C. Radopoulou, PhD student at the CIT lab, and Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O'Rourke Lecturer of Construction Engineering, were awarded the best paper award of the 21st International Workshop: Intelligent Computing in Engineering (EG-ICE2014) that was held on 16-18 July, in Cardiff, UK.The paper is entitled "Improving Patch Defect Detection …