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Arup Engineer wins International Glossop Award

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UK Press Team
6 November 2015

Yung Loo has won the 19th Glossop Award in recognition of his exceptional work with the internationally renowned Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN).

The Glossop Award is a prestigious accolade which is presented annually to an outstanding young (under 30) engineering geologist, by the Engineering Group of The Geological Society of London.

Yung is an engineer in the London Tunnelling Group and has been leading Arup’s work with CERN on upgrades to their existing tunnels and CERN’s plans for the development of the Future Circular Collider (FCC).

Following the discovery of the Higgs Boson Particle in the Large Hadron Collider, CERN embarked on ‘Long Shutdown 1’ - a three year programme of particle accelerator shutdown and upgrade which was completed this year. It was Yung’s innovative use of engineering geology fundamentals which has led to the development of long term tunnel mitigation, monitoring and surveying works to be deployed across various areas of CERN’s underground infrastructure.

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The development of the unique interactive investigative BIM tool called ‘TOT’ has proved crucial to the decision making process of the new accelerator tunnel. The proposed tunnel will be nearly four times the size of the present Large Hadron Collider and TOT has enabled the team to produce conceptual design for the layout. ” John Osborne Civil Engineer, CERN

As well as upgrading their existing facilities, CERN is developing plans for The Future Circular Collider (FCC), a proposed high-energy circular collider for the post-Large Hadron Collider era.

Yung has been at the forefront of work with CERN developing a unique Building Information Modelling (BIM) Tunnel Optimisation Tool (TOT), with a focus on tunnelling and engineering geology. This has provided a step change approach to alignment studies and early stage decision making for major projects.

 
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It has been a privilege to work across some truly international projects at CERN and to work with some fantastic teams, building on engineering and geological principles to create innovative and valuable solutions for their cutting edge projects. ” Yung Loo Arup

The benefits of this digital engineering approach has proved a success and it is being further applied on the International Linear Collider (ILC) project, a 34km long particle accelerator tunnel project that is potentially being hosted by KEK in Japan.