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We would like to congratulate C.Y. Gue, a student at the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, on being awarded the best paper award at the 5th international forum on opto-electronics sensor-based monitoring in geo-engineering that was held in Nanjing in October.

His paper, titled ‘BOTDR Distributed Fibre Optic Strain Sensing for the Monitoring of an Existing Cast Iron Tunnel’, is authored by C.Y. Gue, M. Wilcock, M.M. Alhaddad, M.Z.E.B. Elshafie, K. Soga, R.J. Mair.

C.Y. Gue is supervised by Laing O'Rourke Lecturer Dr Mohammed Elshafie. 

 

 

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