Engineering more resilient bamboo homes
A student-led project is helping communities in the Philippines build resilient and sustainable housing made from bamboo.
In its natural form, bamboo is a significantly more renewable material than timber and may have the potential to transform sustainable construction. In developing countries such as the Philippines, bamboo is widely used for housing but a lack of structural building codes and engineered joint designs has limited its use.
Gian Cabanas, a final-year civil engineering student, completed an award-winning research project that tested the structural performance of bamboo joint designs. This summer, Gian, along with other Surrey students, will continue this research to improve the use of bamboo as a construction material, with the aim of making homes more resilient to typhoons and earthquakes.
Professor takes seat on government advisory group
The government has appointed one of Surrey’s professors of economics, Holger Breinlich, as the academic representative on its new Strategic Trade Advisory Group (STAG).
Representing a cross-section of interests from all parts of the UK, STAG’s principal purpose is to help shape the UK’s future trade policy.
In his academic research, Professor Breinlich has worked extensively on the economic effects of free trade agreements on firms and consumers, trade in services, export promotion and the outcome of firm-level export patterns. He has also acted as a consultant or external academic advisor for a number of national and international bodies, including the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Academic to develop novel cancer treatment
Dr Nikolaos Dikaios, from Surrey’s Centre for Vision Speech and Signal Processing, has been awarded a prestigious Royal Society Industry
Fellowship to work on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) methods to help treat cancer.
Radiotherapy forms a vital part of most cancer treatment plans, with 50 per cent of patients receiving the remedy. During radiotherapy, it’s very important that doctors have image guidance that shows the exact location and size of the tumour.
This ensures they can provide maximum dosage to the specific site without affecting surrounding, healthy tissue. It is also essential for oncologists to have accurate images so they understand how the tumour is responding to treatment.
The Royal Society Industry Fellowship will see Dr Dikaios work with Elekta, specialists in precision radiation medicine, to further explore the encouraging indications that MRI can provide unprecedented imaging accuracy.
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