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Callum White wins award as he and fellow student India Harding attends the Net-Zero Future Conference

4 July 2024

india_harding.png Against the beautiful twilight backdrop of downtown Oslo, the capital city of Norway, FIBE2 students Callum White and India Harding attended the Net-Zero Future conference dedicated to advancing research, innovation, and collaboration in pursuit of a sustainable and net-zero carbon environment. The...

Alumni Spotlight - Dr Xueying Wang

19 June 2024

Congratulations to Dr Xueying Wang, from Cohort 1! Xueying has the honour of being the first student in FIBE2 CDT to complete the PhD. Xueying has specific knowledge and skills in a wide range of engineering subjects. She completed her undergraduate studies in Civil and Structural Engineering in 2018 with First Class...

Lunchtime Seminar with Cundall

23 May 2024

This week's Lunchtime Seminar will be delivered by 4 speakers from the company Cundall, a global, independent, multi-disciplinary consultancy delivering sustainable engineering and design solutions across the built environment. Topic: Future Fit Cities- Water Infrastructure Abstract: Human demand for water supply in urban...

Lunchtime Seminar with Ele Brown

2 May 2024

Speaker: Ele Brown, CEng, MICE Title: Delivering sustainable infrastructure Abstract: As global warming and population growth puts greater pressure on our infrastructure systems, how can we deliver ever more complex projects? Ele will talk about her journey from Cambridge civil engineering graduate to geotechnical engineer...

Cambridge Festival 2024 with Cohort 5

25 March 2024

The FIBE2 Cambridge Festival games on “Nature-Inspired Infrastructure: building resilient Bridges and Buildings to counter Climate Change” at the Cambridge Festival Family Weekend on 23 rd March was a huge success! The original game, ingenuously designed by Cohort 5, comprised building a suspension bridge set made of laser...

FIBE3: Hat-trick for our CDT to unlock net zero for the infrastructure sector

12 March 2024

The Civil Engineering Division has been successful in its bid for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT) – building on the strength of its two CDT predecessors FIBE and FIBE2. The EPSRC-funded CDT will focus on meeting the user needs of the...

Lunchtime Seminar with Jesse Chase-Lubitz

21 February 2024

Talk Title: Climate adaptation infrastructure in the Maldives Talk Summary: The Maldives has made it into the international consciousness for being one of the most popular luxury tourism destinations — for offering visitors “the sunny side of life.” But it is also one of the most vulnerable countries to sea-level rise. In...

Lunchtime Seminar with Richard Whitehead and Mark Southwell

24 January 2024

Speaker 1 Bio: Richard Whitehead, Chief Executive - Global Buildings + Places . Richard is the Chief Executive of AECOM’s Buildings + Places global business line leading a talented team of over 10,000 professionals providing a diverse range of management, advisory, design and specialist technical services for major public...

Lunchtime Seminar with Abbas Rajabifard

11 January 2024

Speaker: Prof Abbas Rajabifard is Director of Centre for Spatial Dara Infrastructures and Land Administration at the University of Melbourne, and he is Associate Dean Sustainability at Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. Abbas is an internationally recognised scholar and geospatial engineer and is an active...

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...