Forthcoming events
Past events
JRI Seminar
1-2pm, Monday 28 November 2011, AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, The King's Buildings, Edinburgh
Non Smooth Contact Dynamics Assessment of Safety Critical Blocky Assemblies
Professor Nenad Bicanic
Emeritus Professor of Civil Engineering
University of Glasgow
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CEE JRI International Advisory Group Meeting, Wednesday 29 June, 2011, School of Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University.
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High Speed Track Railways Day - 15 February 2011
Institution of Civil Engineers, Westminster, London, SW1P 3AA
Organisers: Dr Peter Woodward and Professor Mike Forde
See presentations here
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CEE JRI Away Day, 23 July, 2010, Peeble Hydro
Make your way to Peebles Hydro
0900-0930: Coffee/rolls on arrival
0930-1230: Director(s) and Theme Leaders report and consultation
CEE JRI Conference 2010
Collaboration showcase (Peter Woodward, Jian-Fei Chen and Garry Pender)
Members feedback for improving JRI performance, break out sessions, brainstorming
1230-1330: Lunch
13:30-17:00: Glenn Tress outing (mountain biking)
Those not going to Glen Tress can use facilities at Peebles Hydro (www.peebleshydro.co.uk)
17:00-18:00: Results from break-out sessions and brainstorming
18:00-19:30: Finger food and drinks reception and networking
Back to Edinburgh
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Sixth CEE JRI Management Group meeting
Wednesday 21 April 2010 from 0930-1230, Room 3.05 AGB Building, the King's Buildings campus of University of Edinburgh. Notes from the meeting.
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CEE JRI Advisory Group meeting
Thursday 21 January 2010, Sanderson Building, Classroom III
Part 1
0930- Welcome and Introductions
0945- Report on JRI progress by Director(s) (AU, GP, CH)
1015- Coffee
1025- 10min research presentations by ERP appointees and theme group leaders + other invited staff (Asif Usmani, Miklas Scholz, Peter Woodward, Callum Hill, Yong Lu, Zhixian (Justin) Cao, Yunming Yang, Alan Cuthbertson, Remo Pedreschi and Philip Turner)
Part 2
1300- Sanderson Coffee Room for lunch and poster presentations by jointly supervised students/supervisors (Aysha Akter, Nicolas Bastien, Alison Furber, Lei Mao, Vijaybaskar Narayanamurthy and Jian Zhang)
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Fifth CEE JRI Management Group meeting
Tuesday 19 January 2010 from 1400-1700 Blackford Room of the Craighouse Campus of Edinburgh Napier University.
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National Telford Insititute Workshop: A unified framework for performance based structural engineering under exceptional conditions
Date: 16-17 November 2009
Venue: AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, The King’s Buildings, The University of Edinburgh
DAY 1
Cormie, Krawinkler, Chryssanthopoulos, Manohar, Filippou, McKenna, Bicanic/Pearce, Izzuddin, Usmani/Lu
DAY 2
Pearce, Val, Yu, Grassl, Welch, Wilkinson
The Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh
The Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Glasgow
School of Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University
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Fourth CEE JRI Management Group meeting
Wednesday 11 November from 1400-1700 in the AGB Seminar Room (3rd floor of Alexander Graham Bell Building in the King's Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh). Notes from the meeting.
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Innovative materials theme group meeting
Wednesday 4 November from 1430-1700 at Heriot-Watt University, School of Built Environment (Buildings 9/10 at www.hw.ac.uk/maps/detailed-campus-map.pdf )
Agenda:
Election of theme leader for a period of 1 year
Remit of Group
Discuss and develop plan of activities to ensure regular interactions between theme members
Discuss and agree upon targets for the theme
Election of a webpage editor
John McCarter (convener): w.j.mccarter@sbe.hw.ac.uk
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Structures under exceptional conditions theme group meeting
Wednesday 28th October from 1400-1700 in the AGB Seminar Room (3rd floor of Alexander Graham Bell Building in the King's Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh).
Agenda:
Coffee/networking/welcome/introductions (1400)
Discussion of strategy paper (1430)
Election of theme leader & webpage editor (1515)
Proposals for theme activities (1545)
Tangible targets for yr 1 outputs (joint PhDs, pubilcations & funding proposals) (1615)
AOB/Next meeting
Asif Usmani (convener): asif.usmani@ed.ac.uk
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Industry Evening Seminars and PG Student Poster
Date: 13 October 2009, 4-6pm
Venue: Alexander Graham Bell Building, The King's Buildings, The University of Edinburgh
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Third CEE JRI Management Group meeting
Friday 4 September from 1400 in Classroom 1 Sanderson Building, the King's Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh. Notes from the meeting.
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A short course on structural safety analysis and reliability based design
Date: 13-16 July 2009
Venue: Lecture Theatre 1, Sanderson Building, The King’s Buildings, The University of Edinburgh
Instructor: C S Manohar, Professor of Structural Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Organiser: Asif Usmani (University of Edinburgh)
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CEE JRI Away Day, 2009
Dalmahoy Hotel, Kirknewton, Edinburgh. Away Day summary document and CEE JRI Strategy paper resulting from away day follow-up.
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Second CEE JRI Management Group meeting
Monday 1 June from 1500 in the School of Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University, Riccarton. Notes from the meeting.
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National Telford Institute Workshop: Sonic & Radar NDT of Infrastructure
Date: 12 May 2009
Venue: AGB Seminar Room, AGB Building, The King’s Buildings, The University of Edinburgh
Workshop Coordinators:
Mike Forde (The University of Edinburgh)
AA Rodger (The University of Aberdeen)
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First CEE JRI Management Group meeting
Tuesday 5 May from 1430 in the William Rankine "Fish Bowl", the King's Buildings campus of the University of Edinburgh. Notes from the meeting.
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National Telford Institute Workshop 2009; Sustainable Water Management
Date: 2-3 April 2009
Venue: Classroom 10, Alrick Building, School of Engineering and Electronics, The University of Edinburgh, The Kings Buildings, Edinburgh
Workshop Coordinators:
Dr Miklas Scholz, Director (The University of Edinburgh)
Dr Scott Arthur, Co-director (Heriot-Watt University)
Structures and Granular Solids Conference, 30th June - 2nd July 2008
You are cordially invited to this ERPem Industry Evening Seminar and PG Student Poster organised jointly by: The Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, School of Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, Heriott Watt University and Napier Edinburgh University.
This Event will provide a great opportunity for presentation of your project results, for junior staff to be exposed to the stimulation of scientific exchange, and also to keep abreast of what is happening in the field. For more information, please click here. (ERPem Poster Template)
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Advanced Composites in Construction 2009
Date: 1-3 September 2009
Venue: South Hall, Pollock Halls, University of Edinburgh, Holyrood Park Road, Edinburgh, EH16 5AY
Conference local organisers:
Tim Stratford, Luke Bisby, Jian-Fei Chen (The University of Edinburgh)
Sue Halliwell, Clare Whysall (NGCC)
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