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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...

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...

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Lunchtime Seminar with Ele Brown

2 May 2024

Speaker: Ele Brown, CEng, MICE Title: Design Management: What is it and how do I get there? Abstract: Interested in a career in engineering but don't want to be a technical expert? Maybe design management is for you! Ele will be talking about her journey from Cambridge civil engineering graduate to geotechnical engineer to...

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 game comprised building a suspension bridge set made of laser-cut wooden interlocking elements which...

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