Laing O'Rourke Centre Seminar: Creating Underground Infrastructure: the Role of Geotechnical Engineering

Add to your list(s) Download to your calendar using vCal

• Professor Lord Mair, University of Cambridge
• Friday 04 March 2016, 16:00-16:45
• Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

If you have a question about this talk, please contact Jen Fusiello.

The talk will be closely based on the Hinton Lecture, recently delivered by Robert Mair at the Royal Academy of Engineering. It addresses the challenges of creating urban underground infrastructure, in particular the development of underground transport that is environmentally essential for many of our future cities. It explores what can go wrong with such developments and raises important questions such as whether buildings above will be damaged by subsidence, how they can be protected and how existing underground infrastructure might be affected by new construction. The lecture highlights the key role of geotechnical engineering in addressing these questions. Examples of projects from around the world, including the Crossrail project in London, will demonstrate the size, technical challenges and complexity of modern underground construction. The lecture also describes recent research advances and innovations at Cambridge, and presents novel techniques for monitoring construction and whole-life performance using fibre optic technology and wireless sensor networks.

This talk is part of the Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars series.

This talk is included in these lists:

• Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4
• Alex
• All Talks (aka the CURE list)
• Cambridge University Engineering Department Talks
• Cambridge talks
• Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction
• Civil Engineering Talks
• Computational Continuum Mechanics Group Seminars
• Engineering Department Geotechnical Research Seminars
• Featured lists
• Interested Talks
• School of Technology
• Trust & Technology Initiative - interesting events
• bld31

Note that ex-directory lists are not shown.