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Cam Millar, who graduated from the MEng course in 2020, has won the 2020 Hangai Prize of the International Association of Shell and Spatial Structures for a paper about structural stability. The paper describes the results of Cam’s fourth year project, conducted under the supervision of Allan McRobie and Bill Baker. The...

On 11 th December, the Civil Engineering Technicians Support Team was awarded the University of Cambridge Professional Services Recognition Award. The annual scheme is open to all administrative staff across the University whose work supports research, teaching and scholarship. It celebrates the very best administrative...

Cambridge PhD students joined their peers from 10 European countries to participate in a ‘Zero Carbon Hackathon’ set up to find ways to tackle carbon emissions from cement manufacture. Teams of students and mentors gathered over a weekend at the global LafargeHolcim Innovation Centre, in France, to examine a reference...

This year, 348 new students embarked on the Structural Design Course. Working in pairs, students designed and built structures, which were then tested to destruction. Bridges and cantilevers, straight and skewed were judged on design, cost and strength. We were fortunate to have Bill Baker and Ian Firth, two world-renowned...