Robert Mair
Robert James Mair, Baron Mair CBE , (born April 20, 1950 ) is a British civil engineer ( geotechnical engineering ).
Mair studied civil engineering at Cambridge University with a bachelor's degree from Clare College in 1971 and a master's degree in 1975. In 1979 he received his doctorate there (Ph.D.). In addition, from 1971 he worked for Scott, Wilson, Kirkpatrick and Partners (SWK) for eleven years, including in Hong Kong (including at a large container terminal), doing this for his doctorate from 1976 to 1979 (on tunnels in soft underground) to Cambridge University. From 1994 to 1997 he was visiting professor at Nottingham University. In 1997/98 he was Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor at Cambridge University and from 1998 Professor of Geotechnical Engineering in Cambridge. He was a fellow at St. John's College from 1998 to 2001 and has been a Masters at Jesus College since 2001. He chairs the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering in Cambridge.
He is director of the Geotechnical Consulting Group (GCG), which he helped found in 1983. His consulting activities include the Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground and rail projects for the Eurotunnel . Other tunnel projects were in Singapore (Mass Rapid Transit), rail tunnels in Barcelona, Florence, Rome, Bologna, Warsaw and the Westerschelde car tunnel.
In 2006 he gave the Rankine Lecture (Tunneling and geotechnics - new horizons). In 1992 he became a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2007 of the Royal Society . He has been a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) since 1990 . In 2004 he received the gold medal of the ICE, their Geotechnical Research Medal in 1994 and their Crampton Prize in 2007. In 2001 he gave the Vienna Terzaghi Lecture (Tunneling in soft ground in urban areas). In 1980 he received the British Geotechnical Society's award for work on tunnels. In 1992 he gave the Unwin Memorial Lecture of the ICE. In 2019, Mair was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering .
From 1996 to 2005 he was chairman of the technical committee of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) for underground construction in soft ground. He is on the ISSMGE council. He gave the special lecture on tunnels in urban areas at the International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering in Hamburg 1997. He gave the Terzaghi lecture in Vienna and the Szechy lecture in Budapest. He is Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
On October 29, 2015, Mair was named a Life Peer with the title Baron Mair , of Cambridge in the County of Cambridgeshire , on a proposal from the House of Lords Appointments Commission . This also made him a member of the House of Lords .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Mair, Robert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mair, Robert James, Baron Mair |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geotechnical engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1950 |