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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...

James Walsh writes paper which wins the Wilkes Award on The Computer Journal

9 April 2024

Congratulations to Cohort 3 Rep James Walsh, co-author for the article on The Computer Journal, Near Real-Time Social Distance Estimation In London , which won the Wilkes Award, a prestigious commendation given annually to the authors of the best paper published in the volume of The Computer Journal in terms of...

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's Ben Harris, comprised building a suspension bridge set...

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. Click here for the FIBE3 website EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future...

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...

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...

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...

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Lunchtime Seminar talk with Alexandros Nordas

23 April 2025

Talk Title: The Deep Geological Repository in Switzerland - Some Critical Engineering Challenges Speaker Bio: Dr Alexandros Nordas is a Senior Scientific Associate and Lecturer in the Chair of...

Callum White presents research at House of Parliament

23 April 2025

Callum White, a student from FIBE2 cohort 3, recently attended the STEM for BRITAIN 2025 exhibition organised by the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee at the Houses of Parliament as a finalist...

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