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Habib Fathi, a former PhD student of Laing O'Rourke Lecturer Dr Ioannis Brilakis, was awarded the Charles Eastman Top PhD Paper Award at the 2014 Computing in Civil and Building Engineering conference. According to the CIB W078, “This award, presented at each of W078's annual international conferences, recognizes the importance of developing top yo…

Professor Campbell Middleton, Laing O'Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering and Director of the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, has been invited by the Institute of Civil Engineers to give a lecture "Transforming Construction - Challenging the Status Quo".The lecture will take place at the London headquarte…

Geometric feature detection in images using a contrario theoryPresenter: Viorica PatrauceanDate: Tuesday 6th of MayTime: 14:40Location: Sir Arthur Marshall Meeting RoomThe main concern in designing geometric feature detectors in images is to obtain reliable results (i.e. reduced number of false detections) on various types of images without any par…

Dr Mohammed Elshafie, Laing O'Rourke Lecturer in Construction Engineering, recently talked to the CAM Alumni Magazine about the work that the Laing O'Rourke Centre is carrying out in partnership with CSIC.Dr Mohammed Elshafie wants to give London not just a brain, but an entire nervous system.                 In the future, a city will be like a ve…

Professor Feniosky Peña-Mora is visiting Cambridge University from 24th to 28th of March. The theme of his visit is Advanced Construction Management and Methods. Professor Peña-Mora has extensive expertise in this area. It is anticipated that he will deliver two to three Master’s seminars of approximately two hours each. This would involve a) overv…

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O'Rourke Lecturer of Construction Engineering, and his students Abbas Rashidi, PhD Candidate, and Jasmine Hines, undergraduate student, were awarded the best paper award of the 5th International Conference on Construction Engineering and Project Management (ICCEPM 2013).The Conference was held on 9-11 January 2013 in Anah…

Chris Northwood (Cohort 1) and his supervisor Dr Azad Camyab both submitted a conference paper titled "Risks and Barriers to Investment in the UK Renewable Energy Sector".  The paper was accepted for the POWER-GEN Europe & Renewable Energy World Europe Conference in Cologne, Germany 2014, and evolved around the findings of Chris's thesis, recently …

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O'Rourke Lecturer of Construction Engineering and his former students, Zhenhua Zhu - Assistant Professor (Concordia University, Canada) and Stephanie German - Post-Doctural Fellow (EPFL, Switzerland), are the recipients of the 2013 Collingwood Prize of the American Society of Civil Engineers for their paper titled "Visual…

Adam Littlejohn (CEM programme - Cohort 2) was one of the recipients of the CIOB's Tony Gage Scholarship.CIOB's Tony Gage Scholarship is a prestigious bursary worth up to £10,000 which is awarded to candidates selected as future leaders in construction.  This award is specifically aimed at professionals employed by a UK contractor.Read more here

Christopher McKinstray, a student on the Construction Engineering Masters programme, was nominated as the first winner of the FOSG Supergrid Award for the best Supergrid related project of the year 2012.  The award project was held at the annual conference in Brussels on 19th March.Chris's work focused on research into technical, commercial and fin…

Yet another success story for one of our Construction Engineering Masters students.This award is made to a young person, less than 35 years of age, who is considered to have provided a significant active role within their branch by their contribution to an interesting or notable project.  The aim of the award is to celebrate individual excellence i…

Chris McKinstray, one of our students on the Construction Engineering Masters program, Cohort 1, together with his supervisor Dr Azad Camyab, presented a paper titled "The European Supergrid - Messiah or Pariah?" at the 2nd Annual European Renewable Energy Project Finance Conference in London this February.The paper examined the Supergrid proposal …

POWER-GEN Europe 2014 - paper acceptanceChris Northwood (Cohort 1) and his supervisor Dr Azad Camyab submitted a conference paper titled 'Risks and Barriers to Investment in the UK Renewable Energy Sector'.  It was accepted for the POWER-GEN Europe & Renewable Energy World Europe World Europe Conference in Cologne, Germany 2014.The paper evolved ar…