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Professor Damien Lacroix joins Jim Wild as Co-Director of the Insigneo Institute

Professor Damien Lacroix, from the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, has taken on the role of Co-Director of the Insigneo Institute.
Placement Year Awards 2024 winner Daniel Holloway

Celebrating exceptional achievements at the inaugural Placement Year Awards 2024

Aerospace Engineering student Daniel Holloway wins the Celebrating Resilience Award in this year's placements honours.
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From Rubble to Green Building Materials: UK-Ukraine Project Launched

New project seeks to revolutionize Ukraine's post-conflict reconstruction, expediting its recovery and promoting environmentally sustainable rebuilding practices in a new joint venture.
Houses being constructed at a site in the UK

Study to explore if circular economy can meet needs of UK's buildings

A new project led by Dr Danielle Densley Tingley will explore the extent to which the circular economy could meet the UK鈥檚 building needs using zero new material extractions, zero emissions and zero waste.
Advances In Flood Modelling and Forecasting - Civil

Advances in Flood Modelling and Forecasting workshop

Dr Georges Kesserwani, Senior Lecturer in Water Engineering, spearheaded a two-day workshop delving into the latest 鈥淎dvances in Flood Modelling and Forecasting鈥 at the University of 91直播 on 1-2 February 2024.
Two first year students (a male and a female) building a bridge from blue Duplo bocks

Educating civil engineers for the twenty-first century: the 鈥榥ew-model engineer鈥

Nick Francis has co-authored a new research article on educating civil engineers in the twenty-first century.
Three people posing together left to right - Edward John (young man with brown hair and slight beard wearing a black suit), John Yates (elderly white male standing in the middle), and Beth Eames (young white female with light brown hair wearing a white top and a long black skirt)

One of our PGR students has won the prestigious Peter Watson Prize for young engineers

Our fourth-year PhD student, Edward John, has won the prestigious Engineering Integrity Society (EIS) Peter Watson Prize for young engineers.

Dr Niki Trochoutsou - Young woman with long brown hair smiling

GO Fund Success Stories: catching up with Dr Niki Trochoutsou

In February 2023, Dr Niki Trochoutsou was awarded 拢10K from the Grantham Opportunities (GO) Fund for her project on 鈥淒urability of bio-composites for strengthening of masonry structures鈥.