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Speaker Bio: Simon Spooner is an Associate Director at AtkinsRéalis, a technical consultancy with about 36,000 professional staff worldwide. His has been elected AtkinsRéalis Fellow for Water Quality and Carbon, one of 40 top technical experts in the company. His day to day work now mostly focuses on improving the water quality of our rivers and re…

Talk Title: Can stadiums ever be really sustainable?Speaker Bio: Tom Newby is a structural engineer and leads Buro Happold’s structural team in London. In his 20 year career he has been part of the design teams for several stadia, including the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, the London Olympic Stadium, and TD Place in Ottawa. He is currently leading the …

Speaker Bio:Harbinder is the Founder and Creative Director of Birdi & Partners, a London based consultancy that provides expert guidance on design and procurement to government bodies, academic institutions, and the private sector.As a chartered Architect with over 25 years’ experience, he has delivered several of the largest projects in the UK, no…

Speaker Bio: Ed is Head of Sustainability for Aviva Investors’ private markets platform and leads the firm’s ESG and sustainability strategy across £50bn of assets under management. As direct investors with broad private markets capabilities Ed works across multiple asset classes including direct real estate, private credit and private equity. Ed h…

This Lunchtime Seminar talk is given by Dr Yuxing Chen from University Paris Cite. Talk Title: Beyond Semantic Change Detection in Remote Sensing ImagesTalk Abstract: Discover how we’re rethinking change detection in remote sensing! Traditional methods often categorize changes—like "forest to urban"—but what about subtle or complex transformations …

Speaker Dr Jinying Xu from the DRF group joins the Lunchtime Seminar series with:Talk Title: How to capture actual carbon data of infrastructure more intelligently? A standardised data model perspectiveAbstract: Sustainability is the continued protection of human health and the environment while fostering economic prosperity and societal wellbeing.…

This year, FIBE3 CDT secured EPSRC funding and embarked on an exciting 8-year journey starting in October, with a focus on the timely theme of Unlocking Net Zero. As the third consecutive CDT in the FIBE group, Cambridge University has the distinguished honour and proudly stands among the few UK institutions to receive EPSRC funding three times in …

This Lunchtime Seminar will be hosted by Daniel Dalton, a FIBE2 Cohort 5 student, who invited speaker David Knight, from Cake Industries. Title: The impact of fabrication and necessity of ethics in a climate emergencySpeaker Bio: David Knight is a chartered structural engineer and designer who has designed and managed various award-winning projects…

FIBE2 Lunchtime Seminar is excited to welcome Jie Lu, our first speaker, on  21st November. Lunchtime Seminar for the academic year will be organised by Cohort 5 and this seminar is arranged and hosted by Monty Jackson. Title: Next-Gen Building Energy Modeling: How AI Fuels Digital Twin SolutionsSpeaker Bio:Jie Lu is a visiting Ph.D. student in the…

Congratulations to Cohort 2 Representative Doug Morley for receiving the 2024 Turner Prize, which includes a £1,000 cash award. This recognition was announced during the Geotech Group induction session for the 2024-25 academic year. Doug was handed his prize by Professor Stuart Haigh, see photo above. The prize was established by Philip Turner, a m…

Well done to Jamie Clarkson whose paper “Torsional buckling of a tape-spring: Review and Renew” was published in the International Journal of Solids and Structures and available to view online on: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0020768324003512 Jamie is from Cohort 3 and in his second PhD year. Jamie’s research area is on the st…

On a short stretch of river deemed too narrow or too winding for conventional side-by-side regattas, this 4-day event is truly an extravaganza not to be missed. Having fun and getting wet is non-negotiable.Traditionally a the end of Easter Term, boats representing their colleges line up one after another. The races are organised into divisions cont…

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 conference provided an inspiring setting for discu…

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 Honours, before going on to comp…

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 InfrastructureAbstract: Human demand for water supply in urban areas is increasing with cl…