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

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 the September 2017 issue of Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering. 

 

The award will be received during the Construction Research Congress in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, April 2-4, 2018. 

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