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Unlocking the opportunities of digital capability in the built environment requires the construction industry to have a shared understanding of the skills needed, and to help ensure that leaders embed those skills in their organisations.This is the key finding of a new report released today by the Construction Leadership Council’s People & Skills w…

GeoTech 2025 will bring together the geotechnical community for a new flagship event focused on innovation, digital transformation, and the future of ground engineering. Taking place on 2 October 2025 at The Kia Oval, London, the conference will explore how emerging technologies are reshaping practice and driving smarter, more sustainable outcomes.…

At the FIDIC Global Infrastructure Conference in Cape Town, industry leaders came together for a powerful, action-oriented session: “The FIDIC Carbon Collaboration Initiative in Practice: Measuring and Managing Carbon in Infrastructure", which featured the latest work supported by Cambridge LOR Centre researchers Tercia Jansen van Vuuren and Dr Sau…

A landmark open-access paper, Artificial intelligence transformations in geotechnics: progress, challenges and future enablers, has just been published in Computers and Geotechnics (Elsevier). The work, authored by an international team of experts led by Dr Brian Sheil and collaborators across Europe, Asia, and beyond, presents a bold vision for ho…

A research team from the University of Cambridge’s Laing O'Rourke Centre has introduced InfraDiffusion, a zero-shot framework designed to restore infrastructure point clouds from sparse to dense by combining virtual camera projections with the strong generative capability of diffusion models.Led by Dr Yixiong Jing, a postdoctoral researcher at the …

We are looking for an experienced and motivated administrator to play a pivotal role in the success of our education and research programmes. Based at the Civil Engineering Building in West Cambridge, this varied position will see you at the heart of the Cambridge Laing O'Rourke Centre's activities, working closely with academics, researchers and s…

A new article published in Nature Mental Health by Dr Olivia Remes, mental health researcher at the University of Cambridge's Laing O'Rourke Centre,sheds light on the “silent crisis” of suicide within the global construction industry.Dr Remes highlights stark statistics: in the UK, suicide risk among low-skilled male labourers – in particularly tho…

The Department of Engineering's Laing O'Rourke Centre is seeking a motivated Research Assistant/Associate to join our team in advancing data science for construction productivity.The researcher's responsibilities will include the development and implementation of machine learning (ML), computer vision (CV), large language models (LLMs), and vision-…

From laser-scanned cities to next-generation digital twins, Dr Olaf Wysocki has joined the University of Cambridge’s Laing O’Rourke Centre and the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction as an Assistant Research Professor, where he is working alongside Dr Brian Sheil to advance cutting-edge research in 3D reconstruction. A summa cum laude…

Professor Campbell Middleton, Director of the Cambridge Laing O’Rourke Centre and Laing O'Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering at the University of Cambridge, has been named the winner of the Outstanding Contribution to the Industry Award at this year’s NCE Bridges Awards.The NCE Bridges Awards honour the extraordinary projects and visionar…

Today marked a proud moment as our CEM13 students presented their research findings at the 13th Annual Construction Engineering Masters Dissertation Conference. A huge congratulations to all presenters for their impressive work and thought-provoking insights.The presentations featured a range of compelling topics, including how to make business mee…

We are proud to announce that Marc Blancher, alumnus of the Construction Engineering Masters (CEM) programme, presented his conference paper at the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33), held in Japan from 2–8 June 2025.Blancher’s paper, titled “The Adaptive Interoperability Journey: Navigating Fragmentat…

A new study led by researchers from the University of Cambridge's Laing O'Rourke Centre has been presented as a plenary session at the prestigious 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC), held in Osaka and Kyoto, Japan, from 2 to 4 June.The paper Where Is the Evidence of Performance Improvement in the Lean Con…

Following a successful inaugural run in 2024, the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering is proud to relaunch its pioneering Sustainable Offsite Construction project for a second year. This hands-on initiative continues to promote environmentally responsible construction while equipping students with essential project management, teamw…

Last night’s British Geotechnical Association (BGA) Lecture offered a compelling insight into geotechnical engineering in practice, highlighting the real-world impact of rigorous monitoring and data-driven design.The lecture was delivered by Dr Brian Sheil (Cambridge Laing O’Rourke Centre), Peter Hensman (Ward & Burke Construction), and Zhandos Ora…