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An article exploring how digital twins are transforming engineering spotlights a number of pioneering CSIC projectsCharting the emergence and development of digital twins in engineering, the article titled ‘Creating a Virtual Replica’, and published in the June issue of Ingenia, the magazine of the Royal Academy of Engineering, features interviews …

The CSIC 2021 Distinguished Lecture will be presented by Professor of Climate and Environmental Risk at the University of Oxford Jim Hall and will take place on Tuesday 13 July.Registration is now open for this year’s Distinguished Lecture, which concludes a month of events celebrating 10 Years of CSIC. Jim Hall FREng is Professor of Climate and En…

Today, 15 June 2021, Issue 1.0 of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment has been published on the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) website.The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment has been developed on behalf of the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) and is part of the Council’s Construct…

The latest CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog by Charmaine Hughes, Programme Manager and Head of Frameworks (North West Construction Hub) at Manchester City Council and Peter Yates Vice Chairman, National Association of Construction Frameworks (NACF) and Regional Framework Director at Constructing West Midlands (CWM) reflects on the NACF’s journey towa…

A paper on precision error analysis in strain monitoring has been published in Structural Control and Health Monitoring, the journal of the International Association for Structural Control and Monitoring.The paper, titled ‘Repeatability precision error analysis of the distributed fiber optic strain monitoring’, is the result of collaborative work b…

A new report titled 'Life Sciences Innovation: Building the Fourth Industrial Revolution', which presents international experts from across the life sciences industry to join the dots between investors, academics and the real estate sector, features a case study completed as part of a CSIC industry secondment with global design practice Perkins & W…

The CSIC 10th Anniversary page has been updated and now lists the full programme of events to celebrate this important milestone. Running from 3 June to 13 July, the events include the publication of the 2021 Annual Review and conclude with the CSIC Distinguished Lecture by Professor Jim Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risk at the Univ…

On Thursday 29 April, CSIC hosted an online workshop for UKCRIC academics and researchers to investigate the challenges and research opportunities around digitalisation in the built environment.Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC welcomed delegates and Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and academic lead for…

CSIC Director Jennifer Schooling was a member of the Steering Group selected to develop a strategic and collaborative document focusing on the zero-carbon challenge and change agenda of the construction industry.Titled ‘Our Vision for the built environment’, and published by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), the Vision features contribut…

This month’s CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog by Hassan Butt, HS2 Graduate Innovation Analyst, and Andrew Pestana, HS2 Innovation Strategy Lead, reflects on learnings from the HS2 Innovation Engine Week (IEW) where discussion and thinking considered innovation, risk and what can be learned from failure.At the event, attendees comprising HS2, its supp…

A recent report from the Net Zero Infrastructure Industry Coalition launched this month – titled 'Is our Carbon Wallet Empty?' – focuses on embodied carbon and highlights the major shortfall in carbon reporting within the UK’s infrastructure industry.The report, led by Skanska UK, a member of the Coalition, sets out four industry-wide actions neces…

A new report by the Green Construction Board – the net zero and sustainability technical lead for the Construction Leadership Council – warns that the rate at which infrastructure projects are decarbonising is not fast enough to reach the UK government’s 2050 achieving net zero target.The latest report references the Infrastructure Carbon Review (I…

A paper on the distributed fiber optic (FO) monitoring of a continuous flight auger (CFA) pile has been published in the Frontiers of Structural and Civil Engineering journal.The open access paper, authored by Yi Rui, Nicholas de Battista, Cedric Kechavarzi, Xiaomin Xu and Mei Yin and titled ‘Distributed fiber optic monitoring of a CFA pile with a …

This month’s CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog by Vladimir Vilde, CSIC Research Associate, invites industry practitioners interested in deploying Computer Vision-based solutions to join a new special interest group.The Blog follows a CSIC workshop, led by Vilde, held earlier this year where there was expressed interest from industry partners in formin…

Growing Underground, the project led by CSIC Investigator Dr Ruchi Choudhary, is said to be a ‘green revolution’, which is ‘powered by data’ in a new feature published by the University of Cambridge.Cambridge researchers are working alongside the founders of the underground farm – located 120 ft below the busy streets of Clapham in London – to crea…