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Congratulations to FIBE PhD student Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera who is clearly on a winning streak. In February, Juan and his team won the Transport Hackathon organised by CUTEC - Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club. Part of his prize is to travel to Canada and participate in the global showdown in the 1st Y4PT Global Transport …

In true FIBE ethos to incorporate Outreach in its activities, staff and students at FIBE-CDT volunteered at the Cambridge Science Festival. Each year the Engineering department Outreach Officer, Maria Kettle, organises a day at the Cambridge University Centre for fun DIY projects with an engineering twist for primary-school-age children. See photo …

2nd-year PhD student Tim Hillel, will be joining other academics at The Architect pub for the Pint of Science Festival event on "Moving Fast: The Future of Transportation".Tim whose research interests lie in transport modelling, machine learning and big data says "My talk for the Pint of Science festival, titled “What your commute says about you” p…

Congratulations to Paula Block for being nominated by the FIBE CDT students for the CUSU Student-Led Teaching Awards. Paula has been shortlisted in ‘Supporting Students Category’. The Awards and Commendations were presented at a ceremony on 9th May at the Gonville and Caius Library.CUSU’s Student-Led Teaching Awards are in their fourth year. These …

First year PhD students Melanie Jans Singh and Mark Allen as well as MRes student André Neto-Bradley, part of team Plant It Green have been awarded £24,000 in the Carbon Challenge Award. This project feeds into all of our research and will be used as a test bed for this novel and new concept. - Mark AllenTheCambridge Carbon Challengeis a competitio…

Cohort 3 's presentations on the Lower Thames Crossing and the UK's Nuclear Future infrastructure projectsThe Mini-Project Presentations for Cohort 3 this year was based on 2 major infrastructure topics: the Lower Thames Crossing and the UK’s Nuclear Future projects.  Divided into 2 teams of 6 students,  each team member contributed their research …

Congratulations to Professor Al-Tabbaa for the EPSRC funding of the Resilient Materials for Life Programme Grant. The Resilient Materials 4 Life (RM4L) project, supported with an investment of £4.7 million by EPSRC, will look to build on the success of the Materials 4 Life (M4L) project that has led to major advances in the development of transform…

FIBE Cohort 2 student Juan Sebastian Canavera Herrera went  to a Transport Hackathon at the IfM organised by the CUTEC - Cambridge University Technology and Enterprise Club, where the idea was to come up with innovative digital and technical solutions to solve the congestion and transport problems of Cambridge. He was part of a group of  three pers…

MRes students André Neto-Bradley and Mar Gimenéz take Civil Engineering Construction to a festive level with their self-made Gingerbread House. Their carefully constructed Gingerbread House is a replica of the new Dyson Building on the Engineering Department site in Cambridge. The Dyson Building is also the new home of FIBE-CDT since it’s completio…

  Professor Al-Tabbaa attended the ICE Fellows’ Christmas Reception on Monday 5 December at One Great George Street at which Lord Heseltine was invited to give the keynote speech. As the commissioner on the National Infrastructure Commission and chair of the Thames Estuary 2050 Growth Commission, Lord Heseltine spoke of his support for the Governme…

Michael Cook, Chairman of Buro Happold and Vice-President of the Board of the Institution of Structural Engineers is the featured speaker for this week's Lunchtime Seminar. His talk is titled “Engineering buildings and cities for people”.Mike will explore the advances in engineering design over recent years that have enabled engineers to create bui…

We welcome Chris Broadbent, Director BRE and Managing Director of CEEQUAL who features as speaker on this week's Lunchtime Seminar. His talk is titled “BRE, BREEAM and CEEQUAL for infrastructure”.

This week's Lunchtime Seminar features Michael Evans, Director, Structures Division and Peter Houghton, Market Manager for Civil Infrastructure, both from Trimble. The talk is titled " ‘Trimble – Transforming the way the world works’.

Guest speaker for this week's Lunchtime Seminar is Tim Embley from Costain. His talk is titled "Automating an Industry and Engineering Principles for Consideration".

This week's Lunchtime Seminar features speaker Simon Smith who is a structural engineer and co-founder of Smith and Wallwork. His talk is titled "For the love of engineering - founding and running an engineering design business"Date: 2nd November 2016Venue: Boardroom, Engineering Dept, Trumpington Street, CB2 1PZTime: 12:30 - 14:00