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

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...


Read more at: Lunchtime Seminar with Jesse Chase-Lubitz

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...


Read more at: Lunchtime Seminar with Richard Whitehead and Mark Southwell

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...


Read more at: Lunchtime Seminar with Abbas Rajabifard

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...


Read more at: Lunchtime Seminar with Elizabeth Orchard

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...


Read more at: Lunchtime Seminar with Michael Dales

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...


Read more at: Douglas Morley's secondment at the University of Pretoria

Douglas Morley's secondment at the University of Pretoria

23 October 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...


Read more at: Lunchtime Seminar with Marina Konstantatou

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...


Read more at: Bridge Talk and Tour

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...


Read more at: National Highways PhD Conference 2023

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...


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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...