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Congratulations to Michele Win Tai Mak who has been awarded two prizes at the Young Researchers' Conference (YRC) 2020, organised by the Institution of Structural Engineers (IStructE) on the 4th September 2020. He participated in the oral presentation section, the top category, winning the 1st Prize from the scientific jury and the additional Peopl…

Dr Marcus Maier has recently joined the CIRG as a Research Associate. Marcus studied for his PhD at the University of Innsbruck in Austria and prior to coming to Cambridge worked as a Postdoctoral Scholar in Singapore at the Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS). His research focuses on the use of low cement concrete materia…

They say good things come in threes....  Three new CIRG journal papers were published in the May, June and July, 2020 issues of Construction and Building Materials. To find out more please see:Torelli G, Giménez Fernández M, Lees JM. (2020) Functionally graded concrete: Design objectives, production techniques and analysis methods for layered and c…

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.You can read more about the Hackathon on the Structures Research Group website.

Michele W. T. Mak wins fib Italy YMG Award for Best Research Advances in Concrete and Concrete StructuresCongratulations to Michele who has been awarded the ‘fib Italy YMG Award for Best Research Advances in Concrete and Concrete Structures’ for his work on the assessment of deteriorated reinforced concrete bridges.Michele presented a research pape…