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SUMMARY:Recent Advances in Tunnelling Technology – Potential for Cambrid
 ge Underground Transport? - Professor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS\, Sir Kirb
 y Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of Civil and Environmental
  Engineering at Cambridge University
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CONTACT:Publicity Officer\, IMechE Beds &amp\; Cambs area
DESCRIPTION:There is a need for radical solutions to Cambridge’s traffic
  problems. Cambridge has a historic city centre with narrow streets\, whic
 h hinder public transport provision\, and buses and cars cause congestion 
 and atmospheric pollution. The talk will describe an independent feasibili
 ty study\, undertaken in the Engineering Department of Cambridge Universit
 y\, which has shown that it is technically and economically feasible to co
 nstruct tunnels beneath the city centre to carry guided buses and possibly
  other types of public transport. The feasibility of the tunnels is primar
 ily due to the underlying geology and to recent advances in tunnelling tec
 hnology.\n\nRecent advances in tunnelling technology will be described\, w
 ith examples from the current Crossrail project in London and elsewhere. T
 he talk will also cover settlement effects of tunnelling and the latest te
 chniques for predicting these\, together with recent research advances at 
 Cambridge.\n\nProfessor Robert Mair CBE FREng FRS is the Sir Kirby Laing P
 rofessor of Civil Engineering and Head of Civil and Environmental Engineer
 ing at Cambridge University. He was Master of Jesus College 2001-2011 and 
 Senior Vice-President of the Royal Academy of Engineering 2008-2011. Befor
 e he was appointed to a Professorship at Cambridge in 1998 he worked in in
 dustry for 27 years\, in 1983 founding the Geotechnical Consulting Group (
 GCG). He is also Chairman of Laing O’Rourke’s Engineering Excellence G
 roup.\nHis research group specialises in the geotechnics of tunnelling and
  underground construction. He leads the Centre on Smart Infrastructure and
  Construction at Cambridge\, involving the innovative use of the latest se
 nsor technologies to monitor the behaviour of civil engineering infrastruc
 ture.  \nProfessor Mair has advised on many infrastructure projects worldw
 ide\, and is a member of Crossrail’s Expert Panel. He chaired the Royal 
 Society/Royal Academy of Engineering Report on Shale Gas for the UK Govern
 ment\, published in 2012.\n\nTime: Refreshments served from 18.30. Talk st
 arts at 19.00. Ends around 20.30 following questions and discussion.\n\nVe
 nue: Lecture Room 4\, Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Trumpi
 ngton Street\, Cambridge CB2 1PZ (directions at http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/v
 isitors/). There is limited parking available on site.\n\nFree to attend. 
 Registration not required. All welcome.\n\nThis talk is open to the public
  and is suitable for students and engineers. You are encouraged to bring w
 ith you colleagues\, friends and members of your family who are interested
  in engineering.\n\nThis talk is organised by the Institution of Mechanica
 l Engineers Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire area.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 4\, Cambridge University Engineering Department\, Tr
 umpington Street\, Cambridge CB2 1PZ
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