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.