The Civil Engineering Division has been successful in its bid for a Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Infrastructure and Built Environment: Unlocking Net Zero (FIBE3 CDT) – building on the strength of its two CDT predecessors FIBE and FIBE2.
The EPSRC-funded CDT will focus on meeting the user needs of the infrastructure and built environment sector in its pursuit of net zero by 2050. The £8.1 million funding from the EPSRC is supported by £1.3 million funding from the University and more than £2.5 million from industry, as well as more than £8.9 million of in-kind contributions.
More than 70 fully funded studentships will be made available over the next five years. Recruitment is underway for the first FIBE3 CDT cohort who will start in October 2024. Of all the new CDT investments announced by Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary, FIBE3 is the only Cambridge-led CDT from the Department of Engineering.
"The huge success of our FIBE CDTs is all down to our highly talented and committed students, staff and industry partners who have supported us all the way," Professor Abir Al-Tabbaa, Department of Engineering
The FIBE3 Roadmap will be built around four high level thematic enablers. These are:
- Current and disruptive/new technologies
- Radical circularity and whole life approach
- AI-driven digitalisation and data
- Risk-based systems thinking and connectivity
Read the announcement by the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT).
Read the announcement by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).
Department of Engineering full article
image: FIBE2 CDT industry day held recently at the Møller Centre, attended by the FIBE3 industry partners.