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Talk Title: Exchange House and the Broadgate Development over London's Liverpool Street StationSpeaker 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, developer Sir Stuart Lipton led…

Talk Title: Steel re-use and Dowel Laminated TimberAlly 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 refurbishment of existing structures.…

Lunchtime Seminar 2nd FebruaryModernise 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 to conduct a review of the…

FIBE/FIBE2 is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.Topic: FIBE2 Open Day Time: Jan 27, 2023 14:00 LondonJoin Zoom Meeting https://eng-cam.zoom.us/j/88319878732?pwd=aXU5blhFT2xmRTl5MTQ5MHM1bU52Zz09Meeting ID: 883 1987 8732 Passcode: 817599 One tap mobile +443300885830,,88319878732#,,,,*817599# United Kingdom +441314601196,,88319878732#,,,,…

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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 conference ran with smooth precisi…

Fibe2 CDT went the whole nine yards and put on a showcase extraordinaire on 19th October 2022. The day started with the Autumn Industry Day, building bridges between academia and business at the state-of-the-art conference centre Moller institute in Churchill college, and culminated with an intellectual Cambridge University style debate at the stun…

Cohort 4 comprising 10 students joined FIBE2 CDT in October 2022. Following a week of induction activities where they got to meet each other, the FIBE2 staff team and students from the Cohorts 1 - 3, Cohort 4 got started into the MRes year curriculum with a whirlwind of lectures, electives, coursework and lunchtime seminars with key speakers from F…

To celebrate International Women in Engineering Day, Xueying has taken part in 'Gender Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow'; the very first episode of 'Connecting the country' - podcast by @National Highways, the government-owned company responsible for motorways and major trunk roads in England.“I encourage all the female students who are li…

The March 2022 FIBE2 CDT Industry Day was the best one yet! The objectives were to: a) provide progress updates; b) facilitate engagement between students, industry partners and academics; c) collect industry feedback. All objectives were met. We started with a quick round of updates from the investigator team on recruitment, governance, and the M…

This October, we were very happy to welcome 10 new students in Cohort 3 joining the FIBE family. Now it is nearly the end of their first term, we have conducted a survey to find out what they are doing recently with their research. Let's have a look!El-Amin AhmedEl-Amin is supervised by Julian Allwood and is sponsored by MTC. His research project i…

A very warm welcome to Cohort 3 who are starting their 4-year MRes + PhD this Michaelmas in the FIBE2 CDT programme. This year's cohort comprises a good mix of  UK and international students including a selection of Cambridge University's very own graduates. The induction week went off to an exciting start with a flurry of activities where Cohort 3…

FIBE2 Cohort 2 students Douglas Morley and Benjamin Boys spearheaded an Engineering Day Outreach at St. Margaret's Preparatory School. The pupils at the school were introduced to what it was like to be an engineer and what environmental challenges engineers of the future would be facing. They were then put into teams and challenged to design and en…

The FIBE2 CDT 2021 Summer Industry Partner day was a huge success and well attended by partners from industry, academics and students alike. The event started with a welcome from Dr Ioannis Brilakis, contact for Industry partners followed by updates from the FIBE2 academics and staff on the FIBE2 programme. Cohort 1 PhD students then gave short pre…