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Speaker:      Ele Brown, CEng, MICE        Title:  Delivering sustainable infrastructureAbstract:   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 to design m…

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 contribution to the field, based on c…

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 23rd March was a huge success! The original game, ingenuously designed by Cohort 5's Ben Harris,  comprised building a suspension bridge set made of laser-cut wooden i…

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 Infrastructure and Built …

Talk Title: Climate adaptation infrastructure in the MaldivesTalk 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 an effort to keep the count…

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 and private sector clients …

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 leader in land administrat…

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 to help deliver truly sus…

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 sciencesAbstract: As we race to deal with the climate crisis facing the planet, ecologists are increasingly turning to computational analysis, both i…

Douglas Morley's secondment at the University of PretoriaCohort 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 140 m spanning integral bri…

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 (SMG) at Foster + Partners …

"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 Ch…

On Monday 12th 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 Advisor Professor Sarah Shar…

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 games, lectures, podcasts …

Talk Title: Investigating Rock Anchorage Failure at a major road cut in WalesSpeaker 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 embankments.  A Chartered Civil Engi…