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We are delighted to announce the four successful proposals of the 2023 Trimble Fund:Microtunnelling: Intelligent Construction Control (MIC2) Principal Investigators: Dr Pin Zhang and Dr Brian SheilDigital Twin-based Spatiotemporal Prediction of Pavement PerformancePrincipal Investigators: Dr Yiming Zhang and Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou.Multimodal r…

We are delighted to announce that Professor Ioannis Brilakis has been appointed as an Honorary Fellow of the Italian Society for Science, Technology, Engineering for Architecture - ISTeA.The title of Honorary fellow is awarded to people who distinguished themselves for particular achievements related to the objectives of ISTeA, committing to promot…

Dr Danny Murguia, LORC Research Associate and Asitha Rathnayake, PhD Candidate, presented their research work at the 31st Annual Conference for the International Group for Lean Construction in Lille, France. Using performance data from UK-based projects, our researchers presented two papers examining productivity from the view of construction flows…

We are pleased to announce that Dr Brian Sheil, Laing O’Rourke Associate Professor in Construction Engineering, has won the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) prestigious Crampton Prize for his paper ‘Monitoring the construction of a large-diameter caisson in sand’, co-authored with industry partner Ward and Burke.The Crampton Prize is awarded an…

We are pleased to announce that Dr Brian Sheil, Laing O’Rourke Associate Professor in Construction Engineering, has been selected to receive the ISSMGE Europe Bright Spark Lecture Award. The award will be presented during the 4th International Symposium Machine Learning & Big Data in Geoscience at University College Cork, 29 August – 1 September 20…

When you think of male-dominated industries, there's a good chance construction comes to mind. Increasing gender diversity and encouraging women into the construction sector has been a topic for many years, yet women remain largely under-represented. So, the question emerges: why aren't more women pursuing this career path?Based in Saudi Arabia, Ra…

Applications are invited from within the University of Cambridge for research funds of up to £50k to be spent during the 2023 calendar year on areas of research relevant to Trimble Inc. Areas of interest to Trimble include construction, logistics, operations, sensing and sustainability e.g. methods to measure the sustainability impact of technologi…

We are hiring three post-doctoral research associates at the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge in the areas of Digital Twins and Visual-LiDAR Odometry & Mapping. They will lead activities for H2020 projects OMICRON and BIM2TWIN and Horizon Europe project AEGIR:Digital Twins:https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/39094/Visual-LiDAR Od…

Laing O'Rourke Centre's Director Professor Campbell Middleton was one of the keynote speakers of the 11th Austroads Bridge Conference held in Adelaide, Australia, from 15 to 18 November 2022. More than 400 delegates from Australia and New Zealand gathered to share their knowledge and experience from a diverse audience comprising bridge practitioner…

Congratulations to our Construction Engineering Masters (CEM) student Leon Frylinck (cohort 11), who presented a paper based on his CEM research project "Cognitive biases and their influence on projects", at the AGS Sydney Symposium 2022.Leon explores the impact of biases and logical fallacies on outcomes in underground engineering. It examines the…

We are looking to appoint several outstanding applicants to the position of Research Assistant/Associate in Cambridge Construction "Do Tank" to undertake high-quality research focussed on transforming the construction sector by using evidenced-based research findings to inform thought leadership and influence policy that can be implemented by indus…

We are delighted to announce the two successful proposals of the 2022 Trimble Fund:Online unsupervised early damage detection and modal analysis of a railway bridge based on monitored train-induced dynamic vibrations. Principal Investigator: Dr Jennifer SchoolingHuman-robot Cooperation Simulator for Remote Manipulation in Construction. Principal In…

We are hiring a Post Doctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge in Mobile Scanning. They will lead our relevant activities for H2020 projects OMICRON and BIM2TWIN. This is an excellent opportunity for post-docs or graduating PhD students interested in becoming a world leader in Digital Twins generation, Visual/Lidar Odometry, or Com…

Emerging industry leaders presented their evidence-based research to advance and support transformation in the construction sector. Students undertaking the Construction Engineering Master of Studies degree (CEM) at the University of Cambridge presented their research at the programme’s annual dissertation conference on Friday, 16 September. Studen…

Last Sunday, we welcomed Cohort 12 of the Construction Engineering Masters (CEM) for their first residential week.CEM students attended presentations and workshops run by industry, government and academic experts. Lectures and interactive group sessions covered key course themes on the topic of the Built Environment.Notable speakers included Ed McC…