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Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology

 
Trimble Fund

Applications are invited from within the University of Cambridge for research funds of up to £50k to be spent during 2022 on research areas relevant to Trimble Inc. Areas of interest to Trimble include construction, logistics, operations, sensing and sustainability.

Applications should be sent to centre.manager@construction.cam.ac.uk by Monday 14th March 2022.

About the Trimble Fund

The Trimble Fund is a ten year, £500k commitment from Trimble to the University of Cambridge.  The aims of the Fund are specifically to:

  1. enable world-class academic research that has the potential to achieve a significant impact across geospatial  technology for the construction engineering sector;
  2. develop the students and postdoctoral researchers engaged in the research so that they are ready to champion construction information technology in academia and industry;
  3. raise the profile of advanced construction information technology in the construction sector, across academic disciplines and publicly.

Further information can be found here.

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