2025 Neville Symposium and Adam Neville PhD Competition - ONLINE REGISTRATION
Online
Friday 5th December 2025
The Neville Centre of Excellence in Cement and Concrete Engineering, University of Leeds and The Concrete Society, cordially invite you to the 2025 Neville Centre Symposium and the annual PhD conference, Friday, December 5th, commencing at 10:00hrs GMT.
The conference theme this year is ‘Advanced Concrete Manufacturing’.
During our annual PhD conference, four shortlisted candidates for the best national PhD in cement and concrete are invited to present an overview of their PhD dissertations culminating in the announcement of the Adam Neville Prize for 2025.
Keynote Speakers:
The Adam Neville Prize for the best national PhD in the field of cement and concrete in 2018. This prize is donated by the Neville family to honour the late Professor Adam Neville. Professor Neville was President of The Concrete Society from 1974 to 1975 and was head of the University of Leeds’ Department of Civil Engineering from 1968 to 1978. He was recognised internationally as a world-leading expert in concrete and wrote seminal textbook Properties of Concrete (Prentice Hall, 2011), known globally as the ‘concrete bible’ by engineering students.
The award, a £2,000 cash prize, is open to all students in the UK who are studying for a national PhD, either full- or part-time, in the field of cement and concrete.
The conference theme this year is ‘Advanced Concrete Manufacturing’.
During our annual PhD conference, four shortlisted candidates for the best national PhD in cement and concrete are invited to present an overview of their PhD dissertations culminating in the announcement of the Adam Neville Prize for 2025.
Keynote Speakers:
- Prof. Kim Van Tittleboom, professor in the field of Sustainable Structures, Ghent University;
- Dr. Reza Moini, Princeton, whose research is focused on bio-inspired design & development of architected materials using novel additive manufacturing processes & automated robotic technologies for applications in civil infrastructure;
- Prof. Richard Buswell, Loughborough University, with over 30 years experience building systems engineering in both industry & academia, his research is multidisciplinary in nature & has have led a number of large research projects in the fields of building performance & 3D Concrete Printing; &
- Dr. Mehdi Chougan, Cardiff University & Dr. Behzad Nematollahi, University of Sheffield, whose main research interests are nanotechnology & 3D printing technology in construction; (We’ll be profiling our speakers in the run-up to this year’s event).
The Adam Neville Prize for the best national PhD in the field of cement and concrete in 2018. This prize is donated by the Neville family to honour the late Professor Adam Neville. Professor Neville was President of The Concrete Society from 1974 to 1975 and was head of the University of Leeds’ Department of Civil Engineering from 1968 to 1978. He was recognised internationally as a world-leading expert in concrete and wrote seminal textbook Properties of Concrete (Prentice Hall, 2011), known globally as the ‘concrete bible’ by engineering students.
The award, a £2,000 cash prize, is open to all students in the UK who are studying for a national PhD, either full- or part-time, in the field of cement and concrete.
