Meet the team

3-D concrete printing and construction process automation work at Loughborough is centred around a core team that sits across the schools of architecture building and civil engineering, and mechanical electrical and manufacturing engineering while the group research activity is also supported by the Department of Chemistry and the School for Design and the Creative arts.

We have active collaborations with academic colleagues at Universities of Sheffield, Manchester and Leeds, as well as working with industrial partners, see our Partners page and for international research collaborations see our Reseach page.

Richard Buswell

Richard Buswell

Professor of Building Systems Engineering

Group Lead: +17 years experience in 3D Concrete printing and hybrid manufacturing technology development, research and commercialisation.

Peter Kinnell

Peter Kinnell

Professor in metrology

Intelligent Automation: automation, and metrology, +6 years in collaborative 3DCP and hybrid technology research and quality assessment.

Dr Ana Blanco

Dr Ana Blanco

Senior Lecturer in Infrastructure Engineering

Materials, technology development, engineering applications

Sergio Cavalaro

Sergio Cavalaro

Professor of Infrastructure Systems

Structural engineering and materials science and testing, UKCRIC Lead for Loughborough.

Dr John (Temitope) Kolawole

Dr John (Temitope) Kolawole

EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow

Specialism in low-carbon construction materials, rheology of binder systems and formulation of 3D Concrete Printing materials.

Dr Jim Dobrnzanski

Dr Jim Dobrzanski

Projects lead

Specialism in digital automation, process development and measurement systems.

Steve Christie

Steve Christie

Professor of Chemical Technologies

Dr Andy Gleadle

Dr Andy Gleadle

Senior Lecturer in Additive Manufacturing

Dr Laura justham

Dr Laura Justham

Senior Lecturer in advanced manufacturing processes (Intelligent Automation)

Niels Lohse

Niels Lohse

Professor of Manufacturing Automation and Robotics (Director - Centre for Intelligent Automation)

Dr Abby Paterson

Dr Abby Paterson

Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design and Technology

Dr Andre Jesus

Dr Andre Jesus

Lecturer in Structural Engineering

Mohammad Osmani

Mohammad Osmani

Professor of Sustainable Design and Construction

Research team (doctoral students)

Liam Whyte

Liam Whyte

Research: Carbon sequestration in 3DCP materials

Sidou Lei

Sidou Lei

Research: post-processing of 3D printed concrete surfaces

Xingzi Liu

Xingzi liu

Research: properties of 3D printed reinforced concrete

Connor Gill

Connor Gill

Research: process measurement for 3D printing and digital twins

Hamed Sadaghian

Hamed Sadaghian

Research: design of 3DCP structures

Abdulazziz Alfarhan

Abdulazziz Alfarhan

Research: process and quality improvement for hybrid manufacturing