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PhD student Eva Agapaki recognised by Award for Outstanding Student Contribution to Education

17 July 2019

Congratulations to Eva Agapaki who has been highly commended by a n ew award set up by the Cambridge Centre for Teaching and Learning to recognise outstanding contributions to education by students at the University of Cambridge.

Cambridge author team wins the 2019 J. James R. Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers

18 June 2019

Dr Juan M. D. Delgado , Dr Liam Butler , Dr Ioannis Brilakis , Dr Mohammed Elshafie and Professor Campbell R. Middleton received the 2019 J. James R. Croes Medal. The medal was awarded on 18 June in Atlanta, USA by the American Society of Civil Engineers ( ASCE ) for the article : " Structural Performance Monitoring Using...

Dr Ioannis Brilakis receives a Han Fischer Senior Fellowship for his research in the field of Simulation and the Digital Twin

18 March 2019

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O’Rourke Reader in Construction Engineering, was elected to receive a Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship that carries a €60,000 cash prize by the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at the Technical University Munich (TUM). The award was made in recognition of Dr Brilakis’ contributions to the area of...

New Artificial Intelligence project underway

11 February 2019

The University of Cambridge’s CIT Lab is pleased to announce a new research project in partnership with nPlan and Kier Infrastucture and Overseas Ltd , following a successful grant application to InnovateUK. The £846,753 grant for the project titled “AI-Optimised Pathways for Schedule Execution” is a result of their bid to...

Watch Dr Brilakis discuss how to virtualise buildings and infrastructure at MIT’S Computer Science Department

15 January 2019

In November, Dr Brilakis presented a lecture on ‘Virtualizing Infrastructure’ at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s campus in Boston, USA. A link to a recording of the lecture can be found at: https://youtu.be/fe472OnxgBk or at: https://replay.csail.mit.edu/...

Cambridge alliance secures £72 million in government funding to drive innovation and boost construction

3 December 2018

The Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) at the University of Cambridge has joined a new alliance with the MTC (Manufacturing Technology Centre) and BRE (Building Research Establishment) to transform the way that infrastructure in the UK is designed, built, and used. The Transforming Construction Alliance brings...

Prof David Cardwell FREng, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Strategy and Planning of the University of Cambridge, receives the award on behalf of Dr Ioannis Brilakis and Ms Ruodan Lu

Construction IT researchers steal the show at the IET Innovation Awards

19 November 2018

The group from the University of Cambridge took one of the top prizes at the Institution of Engineering and Technology’s (IET) Innovation Awards ceremony in central London last night. A research team from the Division of Civil Engineering took the Information Technology Award for their development of a framework that...

Two Cambridge PhD candidates win first prize at ICCEM 2018

30 August 2018

Virtual reality bridge inspection software wins first prize Ruodan Lu and Philipp Hüthwohl, two PhD candidates in the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, have won first prize at the 11th Innovation Competition in Construction Engineering and Management (ICCEM) held at Tsinghua University on...

Ruodan Lu, PhD candidate at Construction IT lab was awarded the 2017 CETI Award in the category Outstanding Student Research Project by Fiatech

26 March 2018

Ruodan Lu, PhD candidate at Construction IT lab, her project Automated Bridge Information Model Generation System in the category Outstanding Student Research Project has been selected by the members of the CETI Awards Jury to win a CETI AWARD 2017 . Ruodan accepted this award in person at the Fiatech-CII conference, which...

Dr Ioannis Brilakis and Dr Bella Nguyen have just been awarded the John O. Bickel Award

15 March 2018

Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Laing O’Rourke Reader and Dr Bella Nguyen have been selected by the Construction Institute to receive the prestigious ASCE 2018 John O. Bickel Award for the paper, “ Optimized Parameters for Over-Height Vehicle Detection under Variable Weather Conditions ”, published in the September 2017 issue of...

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