Skempton Building
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The Skempton Building houses the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
at Imperial College London
. It is named after the British Civil Engineer
Sir Alec Skempton
, founder of the British Soil Mechanics
. The departmental building changed its name from Civil Engineering Building to its current name in 2004, after a short time of Skempton's death in 2001.
Imperial College Civil & Environmental Engineering
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London is located in the Skempton Building at the South Kensington Campus in London. It is one of the 9 main academic departments of the Faculty of Engineering. The current Head of the Department is Professor David A...
at Imperial College London
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
. It is named after the British Civil Engineer
Civil engineer
A civil engineer is a person who practices civil engineering; the application of planning, designing, constructing, maintaining, and operating infrastructures while protecting the public and environmental health, as well as improving existing infrastructures that have been neglected.Originally, a...
Sir Alec Skempton
Alec Skempton
Sir Alec Skempton FRS was a leader in and founding father of Soil Mechanics. As a founding member of the Institution of Civil Engineers' Soil Mechanics and Foundations committees he studied at City and Guilds College London and established the Soil Mechanics course at Imperial College London,...
, founder of the British Soil Mechanics
Soil mechanics
Soil mechanics is a branch of engineering mechanics that describes the behavior of soils. It differs from fluid mechanics and solid mechanics in the sense that soils consist of a heterogeneous mixture of fluids and particles but soil may also contain organic solids, liquids, and gasses and other...
. The departmental building changed its name from Civil Engineering Building to its current name in 2004, after a short time of Skempton's death in 2001.