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Lunch talk Prof. Block at Knight Architects

17.10.2021

Invited by Bartlomiej Halaczek, Prof. Block is excited to give a lunch talk on Oct 22 to the bridge designing office Knight Architects.

Presentation Dr. Tom Van Mele at Connect! AEC Hot Stuff

16.10.2021

Organised by Speckle, Dr. Tom Van Mele will on Oct 20 present the open-source framework COMPAS at Connect! AEC Hot Stuff.

New paper in Engineering and Computational Mechanics

08.10.2021

Check out our new paper "Understanding the rigid-block equilibrium method by way of mathematical programming", published in the ICE journal Engineering and Computational Mechanics.

Lecture Prof. Block at FTW Symposium in Bregenz

07.10.2021

Prof. Block has been invited to present on Oct 13 at the FTW Symposium of the Future - Materials for. Tomorrow.

Inauguration HiLo unit at NEST

06.10.2021

After 10 years, today, Hilo @ NEST was inaugurated!! Congrats to everyone involved, and then particularly and especially Tom! Re-watch the opening event here.

Dezeen Talk on Striatus

23.09.2021

Together with Shajay Bhooshan of BRG and ZHA|CODE and Nollaig Forrest of Holcim, Prof. Block will be part of a Dezeen Talk on the Striatus bridge, being broadcast on Mon Sep 28 at 16:00 CEST.

Talk Prof. Block at COX Architecture

16.09.2021

Invited by Tristan Morgan, Prof. Block is excited to give on Sep 30 the first R+D Webinar at COX Architecture.

Lecture Prof. Block at Global Concrete Summit 2021

04.09.2021

Prof. Block will on Sep 15 give a talk in the second session on "Innovation" of the Global Concrete Summit 2021 lecture series.

International Summer School on Historic Masonry Structures in Anagni, italy

24.08.2021

Invited by Prof. Maurizio Angelillo, Prof. Block, Dr. Antonino Iannuzzo and Ricardo Maia Avelino of the Block Research Group will contribute to the teaching at the 2021 International Summer School on Historic Masonry Structures, held August 30 to September 11 in Anagni, Italy.

Dr. Mariana Popescu assistant professor at TU Delft

24.08.2021

We are proud to share that Dr. Popescu will in September start as Assistant Professor in the Structural Design / Building Engineering Group in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at TU Delft. A big congrats and lots of success, Mariana!

New paper in Computers and Structures

23.08.2021

Check out our new paper "Assessing the safety of vaulted masonry structures using Thrust Network Analysis" in the journal Computers and Structures!

New paper in International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation

15.08.2021

Check out our new paper on "Stability and load-bearing capacity assessment of a deformed multi-span masonry bridge using the PRD method" in the International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation.