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Following the tragic events near Stonehaven on 12 August, when a train derailment led to three people losing their lives, the Earthworks Management Task Force, led by Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, has completed its report and recommendations.The Secretary of State requested an assessment of the impact of extreme weather on the resilienc…

An online event to discuss how the Built Environment sector will organise to meet monumental challenges in the race to net zero.The London South Bank University (LSBU) School of Built Environment and Architecture’s fourth Seminar in its Climate Emergency Events Series will ask: 'How on Earth is the Built Environment sector going to meet the monumen…

Dr Jennifer Schooling will be part of a panel discussing ‘Creating smart infrastructure’ at the 2021 Infrastructure Ireland online conference on 25 March.The one-day conference, organised by Eolas magazine, will consider how to deliver the next generation of infrastructure, from healthcare and housing to communications, transport and energy. In the…

The new, interdisciplinary Cambridge Festival (replacing the Cambridge Science Festival and the Cambridge Festival of Ideas) featured more than 350 events and activities – including a number hosted by CSIC.CSIC Investigator Dr Ruchi Choudhary presented ‘Growing Underground’, a talk about how urban agriculture is being investigated as an alternative…

This month’s CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog by Dr Daniel Summerbell, CSIC Research Associate, makes the case for categorising opportunities for material efficiency in construction.Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN), is a collaborative project with the University of Bath and Dundee and aims to drive a new culture in the construction industry o…

Two CSIC articles on the future of infrastructure have been published in journals from the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) this month.A paper titled ‘Flourishing Systems: Re-envisioning Infrastructure as a Platform for Human Flourishing’, authored by CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Sch…

Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, will chair a panel considering ‘The path to whole-life performance’ at a CIRIA event ‘The new age of construction: technology as an enabler’.This event marks the inaugural virtual conference for CSIC Partner CIRIA, (Construction Industry Research and Information Association), a neutral, independent and not-f…

Dr Jennifer Schooling will be talking about the CSIC project Digital Cities for Change in an interview with Sam Chorlton, Chair of the DT Hub.Part of a series of Hub Insight interviews, Dr Schooling will be joined by Gemma Schroeder, Smart Cambridge Programme Manager.  The interview, which will be hosted by the Centre for Digital Built Britain’s (C…

Odysseus, a collaborative project led by The Alan Turing Institute, is featured by Microsoft On the Issues, the organisation’s global public affairs content hub that explores ways technology impacts society.The article, written by Katharine Rooney, brings focus to the rapid redeployment of a Turing study monitoring air quality in London to respond …

Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC discusses infrastructure in all its complexities in an interview published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) as part of its new Viewpoint series on infrastructure and the economy.Explaining the ways in which CSIC works to accelerate the development of smart infrastruct…

In the latest of CSIC’s monthly Smart Infrastructure Blogs, Dr Miguel Bravo Haro, CSIC Research Associate, brings focus to sensors, measurement and particularly to conventions.Reflecting on a number of 18th Century explanations of what took place during an earthquake and tsunami in Lisbon in 1755, Dr Bravo Haro tracks the early development of data …

CSIC Investigator, Ajith Parlikad, will take part in a new Government-funded test project to investigate and maximise the benefits of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe.As part of a £28 million project to improve people’s lives with the mobile network, the Port was chosen as one of nine pilots to test the potential of 5G in two forms; with the deployment…

Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Data-centric Engineering Programme at The Alan Turing Institute and academic lead for CSIC and CDBB, has been heading up an international consortium whose collaborative research is n…

Sister Margaret Atkins, Canoness of St Augustine and a contributor to the CSIC and Centre for Digital Built Britain paper ‘Flourishing Systems: re-envisioning infrastructure as a platform for human flourishing’ writes our first Smart Infrastructure Blog of 2021: ‘One moment in time – reflect, review and rethink for the future’. Bringing both hope a…

In this online interactive workshop CSIC Researcher Vladimir Vilde will discuss the different potential challenges faced during the selection, installation and the processing of computer vision (CV) techniques.Leading the workshop, which will take place on Thursday 4 February 2021 from 9.30am to midday, Vladimir, who is researching novel solutions …