Dr Frédéric Bosché, Senior Lecturer in the School's Institute for Infrastructure and Environment, has been elected President of the International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction (IAARC). His tenure just started and will last three years.

Frédéric is a long-standing member of IAARC and had been on its Executive Committee for nearly 5 years before this appointment. Frédéric said: "I am delighted and truly honoured that my international peers on IAARC's Board of Directors have trusted me in taking that role. IAARC is a large organisation with hundreds of members and followers located truly around the world, and I look forward to progress its development with my colleagues in the Executive Committee and Board of Directors."