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SUMMARY:Creating Underground Infrastructure: the Role of Geotechnical Engi
 neering - Professor Lord Mair CBE FREng FRS\, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of
  Engineering\, Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering Cambridge Unive
 rsity Department of Engineering
DTSTART:20160304T160000Z
DTEND:20160304T170000Z
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DESCRIPTION:The talk will be closely based on the Hinton Lecture\, recentl
 y delivered by Robert Mair at the Royal Academy of Engineering.  It addres
 ses the challenges of creating urban underground infrastructure\, in parti
 cular the development of underground transport that is environmentally ess
 ential for many of our future cities. It explores what can go wrong with s
 uch developments and raises important questions such as whether buildings 
 above will be damaged by subsidence\, how they can be protected and how ex
 isting underground infrastructure might be affected by new construction. T
 he lecture highlights the key role of geotechnical engineering in addressi
 ng these questions. Examples of projects from around the world\, including
  the Crossrail project in London\, will demonstrate the size\, technical c
 hallenges and complexity of modern underground construction. The lecture a
 lso describes recent research advances and innovations at Cambridge\, and 
 presents novel techniques for monitoring construction and whole-life perfo
 rmance using fibre optic technology and wireless sensor networks.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 4\, Department of Engineering\, Trumpington Street\,
  Cambridge CB2 1PZ
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