News & Events

Lunchtime Seminar with Elizabeth Orchard

16 November 2023

Speaker: Elizabeth Orchard is a Chartered Civil Engineer specialising in sustainable development on large (strategic) sites, and the Institution of Civil Engineers' Regional Member of Council for the East of England. In March 2023, Elizabeth set up her own consultancy business, Endelevu Ltd., to help fulfill her ambitions...

Douglas Morley's secondment at the University of Pretoria

8 November 2023

Douglas Morley's secondment at the University of Pretoria Cohort 2 student Douglas has recently returned from a 3-month secondment to the University of Pretoria, South Africa. During the placement he continued his PhD work on integral bridges, carrying out tests on a 1.5 m bridge abutment, analysing 6-years of data from a...

Lunchtime Seminar with Michael Dales

7 November 2023

Speaker: Michael Dales ( Energy and Environment Group, Computer Lab, University of Cambridge) Title: Programming for the Planet: The challenges of repeatable and reproducible computing for environmental sciences Abstract: As we race to deal with the climate crisis facing the planet, ecologists are increasingly turning to...

Lunchtime Seminar with Marina Konstantatou

18 October 2023

Talk Title: Conceptual structural design via graphic statics and how form-finding frameworks contribute towards integrated architectural design. Speaker Bio: Marina is an Industrial Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In her hybrid role spanning industry and academia, she is based at the Specialist Modelling Group...

Bridge Talk and Tour

27 June 2023

Bridges define places, we are able to recognise places from bridges be it Tower Bridge in London or the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. So why are bridges important to Cambridge? It’s in the name! Cambridge is defined by its bridges. Professor Chris Burgoyne Chris Burgoyne, Emeritus Professor in Structural Engineering...

National Highways PhD Conference 2023

13 June 2023

On Monday 12 th of June, FIBE2 CDT students attended the National Highways PhD Conference in Birmingham. The Conference was based on the theme of Delivering the Future - Safe, Reliable and Sustainable Highways. The event brought together many leading figures in National Highways notably CEO Nick Harris, Chief Scientific...

FIBE2 Cambridge Festival Game

27 March 2023

Build a beautiful Da Vinci bridge to cross a peaceful river, take it apart and reuse the parts to construct a house set in a delightful clearing surrounded by nature while learning about how to Reuse Materials to Save the Planet. That was the FIBE2 CDT game at Cambridge Festival 2023, a much awaited annual 2 weeks full of...

Lunchtime Seminar with Sergio Solera

2 March 2023

Talk Title: Investigating Rock Anchorage Failure at a major road cut in Wales Speaker Bio: Sergio Solera is a Technical Director and Practice Leader – Geotechnics, with Mott MacDonald in their Cambridge office. He has responsibility for the geotechnical design of water engineering structures and flood protection...

Lunchtime Seminar with Bill Baker

23 February 2023

Talk Title: Exchange House and the Broadgate Development over London's Liverpool Street Station Speaker Bio: William Baker, the man who developed the structural system behind the world's tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, is an Honorary Professor in Structural Engineering Design. Talk Abstract: In the 1980’s...

Lunchtime Seminar with Ally Low-Mcrae and Arthur Coates

16 February 2023

Talk Title: Steel re-use and Dowel Laminated Timber Ally Low-Macrae and Arthur Coates are both chartered structural engineers currently working as associates at London Structures Lab, a recently founded structural engineering consultancy with a focus on designing buildings with reduced embodied carbon, often via...