Flourishing Systems - Re-envisioning infrastructure as a platform for human flourishing
12 May 2020
Academia, government and industry have come together to publish a new white paper, Flourishing Systems, calling for a fundamental change in how we view and run our nation’s infrastructure in the face of climate change and the socio-economic recovery from Covid-19.
Two researchers secure funding aimed at improving construction using Digital Twins
1 May 2020
Dr Ioannis Brilakis , Director of the Department’s Construction Information Technology (CIT) Lab group (part of the Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology) and visiting Professor Rafael Sacks , have been awarded grant funding to enhance building progress monitoring and quality control through...
Could the Covid crisis be a catalyst to change construction for good?
30 April 2020
A new article has been publised by Infrastructure Intelligence. Written by Didem Gurdur Broo and Jennifer Schooling, this article suggests that if we applied future thinking, scenario building, and foresight activities to imagine and understand the future ahead of us, and if we proactively sought to adopt emerging...
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