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Read more at: Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Dr Bella Nguyen and Patricio Vela have just been awarded the John O. Bickel Award
Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Dr Bella Nguyen and Patricio Vela have just been awarded the John O. Bickel Award

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Dr Bella Nguyen and Patricio Vela have just been awarded the John O. Bickel Award

16 March 2018

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O’Rourke Reader and Dr Bella Nguyen and the co-author Patricio Vela, have been selected by the Construction Institute to receive the prestigious ASCE 2018 John O. Bickel Award for the paper, “ Optimized Parameters for Over-Height Vehicle Detection under Variable Weather Conditions ”, published in...


Read more at: Dr Shaun Fitzgerald Visiting Professor appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald Visiting Professor appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain

8 February 2018

Dr Shaun Fitzgerald, RAEng Visiting Professor in Sustainable Buildings based in the Department of Engineering's Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering & Technology, has been appointed Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain (Ri). http://www.rigb.org/about/news/spring-2018/director-announcement


Read more at: CEM Dissertation Conference - 15 September 2017 at Robinson College, Cambridge

CEM Dissertation Conference - 15 September 2017 at Robinson College, Cambridge

28 July 2017

Register now. Contact cem.admin@construction.cam.ac.uk


Read more at: PhD Student Eva Agapaki wins Best "Rising Star" Poster

PhD Student Eva Agapaki wins Best "Rising Star" Poster

17 March 2017

The LOR Centre congratulates Eva Agapaki (one of Dr Ioannis Brilakis PhD Students), on receiving the award for the Best "Rising Star" poster at the 4th Oxbridge Women in Computer Science Conference, held on 16 March 2017 at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.


Read more at: Getting Virtual Infrastructure Models out of the Computer and into the Workspace

Getting Virtual Infrastructure Models out of the Computer and into the Workspace

25 January 2017

Read about our Construction Information Technology Laboratory's ground breaking work on Building Information Models.


Read more at: Modelling specialist Dr Weiwei Lin joins as Academic Visitor

Modelling specialist Dr Weiwei Lin joins as Academic Visitor

25 January 2017

We are pleased to welcome Dr Weiwei Lin of Waseda University, Tokyo, as an Academic Visitor to the Department of Engineering.


Read more at: Cam Middleton Appointed to High Speed Two Advisory Panel

Cam Middleton Appointed to High Speed Two Advisory Panel

22 December 2016

Campbell Middleton, Professor of Construction Engineering at the University of Cambridge, has been appointed to the Independent Design Panel for High Speed Two.


Read more at: Sakthy Selvakumaran ICE blog: Is the term 'construction industry' outdated?

Sakthy Selvakumaran ICE blog: Is the term 'construction industry' outdated?

15 December 2016

PhD candidate Sakthy Selvakumaran proposes a fresh approach to the engineering skills shortage in her blog for the Institution of Civil Engineers


Read more at: Philip Durkin wins the 2016 Laing O'Rourke Prize
Philip Durkin wins the 2016 Laing O'Rourke Prize

Philip Durkin wins the 2016 Laing O'Rourke Prize

25 November 2016

Congratulations to Philip Durkin who has won the 2016 3rd year Prize for Civil and Environmental Engineering.


Read more at: Group Excel at International Conference

Group Excel at International Conference

22 November 2016

The Laing O’Rourke Centre's Construction Information Technology (CIT) research group published five papers and brought home both major awards from the 16th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE) earlier this year.