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SUMMARY:SCISOC TALK - Engineering challenges in creating underground space
  - Professor Lord Robert Mair\, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Enginee
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DTSTART:20161117T200000Z
DTEND:20161117T213000Z
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CONTACT:Benjamin Beresford-Jones
DESCRIPTION:As our cities develop and expand\, it is clear that urban unde
 rground infrastructure\, in particular underground transport\, will be ess
 ential to their evolution. Lord Robert Mair\, Vice President of the Instit
 ute of Civil Engineers\, will join us to explore the challenges of such pr
 ojects\, including Crossrail and other major developments in infrastructur
 e around the world. Lord Mair will describe what can go wrong in undergrou
 nd construction and examine some of the newest techniques in engineering\,
  including fibre optic technology and wireless sensor networks.\n \nRobert
  Mair is the Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering\, and until re
 cently was Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cambridge Univer
 sity. He was Senior Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering 200
 8-2011 and is now a Vice-President of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 
 Having founded the Geotechnical Consulting Group\,  he has advised on nume
 rous tunneling and major civil engineering projects in the UK and worldwid
 e. In October 2015 he was appointed an independent crossbencher in the Hou
 se of Lords.
LOCATION:Department of Pharmacology Lecture Theatre\, Tennis Court Road
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