Chief Technician
Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction
University of Cambridge

Peter Knott is CSIC’s Chief Technician. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of in-situ monitoring equipment installation, including the planning and design of fibre optic sensors deployment.

His work involves:
 

• Constructing test rigs for one-off experiments
• Fabrication of working models, involving the machining of high precision components from drawings supplied by the students
• Strain gauging of models to evaluate data
• Wiring and data logging
• Assembling sophisticated deployable space structures