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  • Bringing buildings to life – smart infrastructure at the Civil Engineering Building
  • Inside concrete
  • Closing the loop: back analysis of sprayed concrete tunnel junctions
  • Construction's ongoing journey to net zero

DC2 Digital Cities for Change

  • DC2 Digital Cities for Change overview
  • DC2 - Vision
  • DC2 - Team
  • DC2 Publications
  • AI on the Frontline Conference

DC2 - Presentations and case studies

  • DC2 - Presentations and case studies overview
  • Digital Cities for Change: testing a Cambridge city-scale digital twin for cross-disciplinary policy decision-making
  • Digital Cities for Change

Risk-informed bridge management

  • Risk-informed bridge management overview
  • Risk-informed bridge management framework
  • Network Rail climate change collaboration
  • Value of monitoring

2020 Case studies

  • 2020 Case studies overview
  • Instrumentation and monitoring to support performance-based design
  • Asset management methodology to support organisational objectives
  • Monitoring of under-reamed piles during tunnelling interception
  • New use for existing technology to identify potential sinkholes
  • The heat is on: a data-driven framework to better target domestic energy policies
  • Developing new analyses to estimate seabed cable fatigue life
  • Efficiency, productivity and sustainability in construction of concrete buildings
  • Systems integration for resilient infrastructure
  • Visualised inspection system for monitoring environmental anomalies in operation and maintenance management

2019 Case studies

  • 2019 Case studies overview
  • Automating concrete construction
  • Developing the supply chain
  • Fibre optic sensing systems
  • Multi-sensing structural health
  • Road degradation
  • The Observational Method
  • The virtual lab
  • A GIS-based infrastructure
  • An energy efficient sensor
  • Wind Africa
  • Modelling Underground Climate Change

2018 Case studies

  • 2018 Case studies overview
  • Investigating the role of the digital twin in optimising asset value
  • Autonomous vision-based bridge and tunnel strike prevention system for improved safety and more efficient asset management
  • Working with industry to co-develop industry-ready tools
  • On the rise: monitoring the axial shortening of a high-rise building under construction using embedded distributed fibre optic sensors
  • Planning in 3D: Optimising space and resources in city heat sources to hot spots for growing edible plants settings – from underground thermal
  • Innovation in sensing to monitor the influence of tunnelling under heritage structures
  • Integrating infrastructure information for efficient whole-life asset management
  • Tomorrow’s world – developing data-centric engineering solutions for smarter infrastructure

2017 Case studies

  • 2017 Case studies overview
  • Understanding the structural response of masonry arch bridges through sensing
  • Monitoring performance of reinforced concrete piles
  • Safety performance of timber structures in underground construction using wireless SmartPlank
  • Optimising the design of sprayed concrete linings
  • Monitoring confirms effect of deep diaphragm wall shafts on existing infrastructure
  • Data-driven asset management: A framework for linking ISO and BIM standards for whole-life value
  • Settlement monitoring of heritage structures. Part of the Bank station capacity upgrade – St Mary Abchurch and Mansion House
  • Keeping cities moving through integrating smart solutions
  • Translucent City

2016 Case studies

  • 2016 Case studies overview
  • Monitoring and modelling of dynamic strain of railway bridges using fibre optic sensor networks and BIM
  • Integration of sensing technologies in the London Bridge Station Redevelopment Project
  • CSIC and Cementation Skanska - when project collaboration becomes commercial reality
  • Futureproofing and safeguarding heritage structures through sensing
  • Multi-dimensional simulation of underground spaces coupled with geoenergy systems

2015 Case studies

  • 2015 Case studies overview
  • Impact of fibre optic measurements in segmental tunnel linings for National Grid and Crossrail
  • Bridging the gap: a value-based approach to maintenance
  • Saving energy: ground source heat pump (GSHP) applications at city scale
  • Adaptive zoning: quantifying costs and benefits of major transport investments

2014 Case studies

  • 2014 Case studies overview
  • Transforming asset management: developing maintenance planning tools for metro tunnels based on systematic evaluation of value to the end user
  • Transforming construction: innovative fibre optics sensors deployed on a variety of Crossrail sites
  • City scale: the impact of infrastructure on urban development and redevelopment: evidence from London’s history
  • Monitoring reused piles with distributed fibre optic sensing
  • The transformation of a historic urban quarter

Thought leadership

  • Thought leadership overview
  • CSIC papers and documents
  • Distinguished Lecture series
  • Newsletters
  • Annual Reviews 2014-2021 Archive
  • CSIC presentations and videos

Mind the gap - women in STEM

  • Mind the gap - women in STEM overview
  • Viviana Bastidas Melo, CSIC Research Associate, Digital Cities for Change (DC2)
  • Mind the gap - Didem Gurdur Broo
  • Maggie Palaeologou, Senior Tunnel Design Engineer
  • Timea Nochta, Research Assistant in Urban Systems and Infrastructure at CSIC
  • Viorica Pătrăucean, Research associate, CSIC
  • Bingyu Zhao, PhD student at CSIC
  • Nicole Badstuber, Research Assistant in Urban Systems and Infrastructure

Blog

  • Blog overview
  • CSIC Where Next ?
  • Unwinding the Complex Path to a Net-Zero UK Transport infrastructure
  • Enhancing Structural Health Monitoring of Ferry Quays through Virtual Sensing and Force Identification
  • How do we find and use public geospatial data?
  • Beyond data acquisition: extracting actionable insights from smart infrastructure.
  • Reflections on a decade of progress towards truly smart infrastructure and construction.
  • A non-rigid view about digitalisation for ‘smart cities’ opens greater understandings.
  • Why measuring infrastructure resilience is challenging?
  • Decarbonisation is a people challenge
  • How do we conceptualise and design urban interventions that satisfy the social and technological needs of the real world?
  • Climate resilience in infrastructure – a hidden gem lies within the health sector
  • On designing our human future
  • Resilient infrastructure systems – are we there yet?
  • What's stopping digital innovation? Rethinking the relationship between the parties

Blog archive

  • Blog archive overview
  • Addressing carbon blind spots – redefining waste in the construction industry to reduce carbon emissions
  • Digitalisation and smart cities: Identifying and addressing competency needs for the future
  • Accelerating decarbonisation – winning the race to a net zero carbon future
  • Forward planning – making resilience a certainty in an uncertain world
  • The role of infrastructure in levelling up – are we creating vicious or virtuous cycles?
  • Sustainable infrastructure in the 2020s – what might 'really good' really look like?
  • Data curation – the gateway to a better built environment
  • Where does your garden grow – can smart urban farming feed growing cities?
  • Levelling up without planning - a wake-up call for planners
  • Smart move – the Center for Smart Infrastructure at University of California, Berkeley
  • Perspectives on the future of civil engineering and smart infrastructure: net zero, maximising societal benefits and diversity
  • Digital change, new technology and opportunity for all
  • Committing to make a difference `– sign-up to the Carbon Reduction Code
  • Making the future: transforming data into insights to deliver value
  • Commit and collaborate to achieve net zero
  • Line of Sight Methodology offers ‘golden thread’ to connect organisations with their assets
  • Can we measure infrastructure resilience everywhere?
  • Supporting carbon reduction through procurement
  • Living in an imperfect world – is it time to embrace failure?
  • Computer Vision beyond black boxes – all eyes on infrastructure and construction
  • Categorising material efficiency in construction
  • On sensors, measurements and conventions
  • One moment in time – reflect, review and rethink for the future
  • Transforming Construction – a move to whole-life value
  • Mind the risk for resilient future transport networks
  • Smart technologies and the city – making the case for a socio-technical approach
  • Data as a journey, not a destination
  • Infrastructure data insights for a sustainable and resilient future
  • Data-driven decision-making for smart sustainability

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    About

    About overview
    • Our people
    • Our funders
    • Our members
    • Our spin-out companies
    • CSIC Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel
    • CSIC in the News
    • Job opportunities
  • Projects & case studies

    Projects & case studies

    Projects & case studies overview
    • DC2 Digital Cities for Change
    • Risk-informed bridge management
    • Bringing buildings to life – smart infrastructure at the Civil Engineering Building
    • Inside concrete
    • Closing the loop: back analysis of sprayed concrete tunnel junctions
    • Construction's ongoing journey to net zero
    • 2020 Case studies
    • 2019 Case studies
    • 2018 Case studies
    • 2017 Case studies
    • 2016 Case studies
    • 2015 Case studies
    • 2014 Case studies
  • Thought leadership

    Thought leadership

    Thought leadership overview
    • CSIC papers and documents
    • Distinguished Lecture series
    • Newsletters
    • Annual Reviews 2014-2021 Archive
    • Mind the gap - women in STEM
    • CSIC presentations and videos
  • Carbon Reduction Code
  • News
  • Blog

    Blog

    Blog overview
    • CSIC Where Next ?
    • Unwinding the Complex Path to a Net-Zero UK Transport infrastructure
    • Enhancing Structural Health Monitoring of Ferry Quays through Virtual Sensing and Force Identification
    • How do we find and use public geospatial data?
    • Beyond data acquisition: extracting actionable insights from smart infrastructure.
    • Reflections on a decade of progress towards truly smart infrastructure and construction.
    • A non-rigid view about digitalisation for ‘smart cities’ opens greater understandings.
    • Why measuring infrastructure resilience is challenging?
    • Decarbonisation is a people challenge
    • How do we conceptualise and design urban interventions that satisfy the social and technological needs of the real world?
    • Climate resilience in infrastructure – a hidden gem lies within the health sector
    • On designing our human future
    • Resilient infrastructure systems – are we there yet?
    • What's stopping digital innovation? Rethinking the relationship between the parties
    • Blog archive
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Dr. James Talbot

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  • Fellow & Director of Studies in Engineering, Peterhouse
Dr. James Talbot

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