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Ephemeral exhibit at the London Design Biennale 2023

House of moveable wooden walls promising cheaper, greener alternative to ‘knocking through’, wins award

22 Jun 2023

Cambridge architects have won a public choice award at the London Design Biennale for a prototype home constructed with flexible wooden partition...

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People installing a living roof in 2012

COP must reverse rising pessimism over building sector decarbonisation

17 Nov 2022

Social media engagement with climate policy events is vital to reducing building emissions and ensuring environmental justice, research led by...

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Viaduct

Cambridge spin-out using data analytics to extend the life of our built environment

15 Mar 2022

BKwai, a construction data company that helps engineers develop smarter, more sustainable infrastructure, has raised £2.2 million in seed funding...

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Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

Cambridge in the 2019 New Year honours list

28 Dec 2018

Members of collegiate Cambridge recognised for outstanding contributions to society in science, education, engineering and art

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£5.4 million centre will help transform the UK’s construction sector for the digital age

30 Nov 2017

The Government have announced £5.4 million in funding to launch the Centre for Digital Built Britain at the University of Cambridge, which will help...

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Cementing Ethiopia's progress

Opinion: Why Ethiopia is on track to become Africa’s industrial powerhouse

23 Jun 2016

Jostein Hauge and Muhammad Irfan (Centre of Development Studies) discuss Ethiopia's economics growth over the last decade.

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How does your smart city grow?

17 Jun 2016

The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction is building on advances in sensing technology to learn everything possible about a city’s...

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A tray of eggs up close

Opinion: Dreaming big with biomimetics: could future buildings be made with bone and eggshells?

09 Mar 2016

Michelle Oyen (Department of Engineering) discusses how we could reduce our dependence on "dirty" materials like steel and concrete.

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Health-conscious concrete

23 Mar 2015

Roads that self-repair, bridges filled with first-aid bubbles, buildings with arteries… not some futuristic fantasy but a very real possibility with...

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The making of a smart tunnel

09 Jun 2014

Ground-breaking new sensing technologies in the world’s first ‘smart tunnel’ are providing engineers with an inexpensive and efficient method of...

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Construction

Better building through design

04 Jun 2014

The construction industry could slash its carbon emissions by as much as 50% by optimising the design of new buildings, which currently use double...

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Flagellated cell

Building ‘nanomachines’ in biological outer space

14 Nov 2013

New research reveals how bacteria construct tiny flagella ‘nanomachines’ outside the cell.

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