News & Events

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...

Lunchtime Seminar with Mark Farmer

19 January 2023

Lunchtime Seminar 2nd February Modernise or Die - Reflections on the Resilience of the Construction Industry and the Imperative for Change, presented by Mark Farmer. Mark Farmer, CEO of Cast Consultancy, has 28 years of experience in the construction and real estate sectors. He was commissioned by the UK Government in 2016...

Online Open day joining instructions

6 January 2023

FIBE/FIBE2 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: FIBE2 Open Day Time: Jan 27, 2023 14:00 London Join Zoom Meeting https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88319878732?pwd=aXU5blhFT2xmRTl5MTQ5MHM1bU52Zz09 Meeting ID: 883 1987 8732 Passcode: 817599 One tap mobile +443300885830,,88319878732#,,,,*817599# United Kingdom +...

Studentships 2023-2024

28 November 2022

Click here to see the studentships we are currently recruiting for, for the academic year 2023-2024.

FIBE2 Conference

25 October 2022

This year's Fibe2 conference, titled Resilience in a Changing World , was jointly organised by Cohorts 1 and 2 and they did a stellar job of it. Led by Cohort Rep Fania Christodoulides and Ioannis Zachos, both from Cohort 1, they cleverly planned and organised the conference team and tasks with the outcome that the...

FIBE2 Autumn Industry day and Debate

20 October 2022

Fibe2 CDT went the whole nine yards and put on a showcase extraordinaire on 19th October 2022. The day started with the Autumn Industry Day, building bridges between academia and business at the state-of-the-art conference centre Moller institute in Churchill college, and culminated with an intellectual Cambridge...

FIBE2 Cohort 4

7 October 2022

Cohort 4 comprising 10 students joined FIBE2 CDT in October 2022. Following a week of induction activities where they got to meet each other, the FIBE2 staff team and students from the Cohorts 1 - 3, Cohort 4 got started into the MRes year curriculum with a whirlwind of lectures, electives, coursework and lunchtime...