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CSIC Research Associate, Didem Gurdur Broo, has written an article published by The Conversation highlighting how, in a changing world, it is the larger tech companies making the most of opportunities that Big Data and AI can provide.Outlining the challenges to other sectors, including a lack of high-quality data, an established strategy and expert…

The third DC2 seminar of the autumn series featured two speakers exploring approaches to ‘smartening’ urban planning and policy.Franziska Sielker, Lecturer in Planning and Housing at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge, presented ‘A new era for city planning? Innovations and barriers to digitalisation for spatial planning …

This year’s CSIC Partner Strategy Day brought together partners and academics to identify and discuss pressing industry challenges that CSIC’s future research agenda will seek to address.Robinson College hosted the fully-booked event, which attracted 30 partners from across infrastructure and construction organisations and focused on issues relatin…

The British Geotechnical Association (BGA) has announced the results of the 2019 Fleming Award.The Fleming Award is awarded by BGA to the project team which most demonstrates excellence in geotechnical design and construction. The judging panel look for teamwork across different disciplines and innovation.Three shortlisted finalists presented to th…

Name: Didem Gurdur Broo  - CSIC Research AssociateBackground – how and why did you get into engineering?I have always been interested in how things work and I was lucky to have a family who encouraged me to disassemble things to see what they had inside. Other than a few toy cars belonging to my brother, things properly worked after putting them ba…

A CSIC monitoring and modelling system optimising energy-efficient growing conditions at an underground hydroponic farming facility housed in former WW2 air raid shelters has won the Innovation in Tunnel Fit-Out, Operations and Maintenance Award at the New Civil Engineer (NCE) Tunnelling Festival Awards 2019. The festival aims to bring together the…

Engineering experts from around the world are gathering at MIT, in Cambridge USA to discuss how data-centric methods can empower engineering research, education and the professional practice. Their goal is to identify salient engineering challenges and their associated methodological thrusts that will offer value, opportunity and impact in the year…

Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, gave the 125th Anniversary Lecture at the City, University of London hosted by the School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering, which is part of a year of events marking City’s anniversary.The lecture titled 'Smart civil engineering infrastructure and construction' discussed the challenges faci…

The Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) 12th Brunel International Lecture Series titled ‘Transportation Infrastructure and Interdisciplinary Interfaces on Complex Mega-Projects – Dreaming Big’ by Linda Miller, a Bechtel leader currently serving as Construction Director on the new Sydney Metro Tunnels & Stations Excavation team, is coming the Depar…

Professor Lord Robert Mair delivered the 20th Schiffman Lecture at the Geotechnical Colloquium, Cornell University in the USA.The annual Cornell University Geotechnical Engineering Colloquium was created following a bequest by the late Dr. Robert L. Schiffman, Cornell Civil Engineering Class of 1944 and Professor Emeritus at the University of Color…

A new book of interviews with “the ingenious individuals who come into The Life Scientific studio” features Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC.The book, titled ‘The Life Scientific: Inventors’, written by Anna Buckley – the producer of the radio programme – publishes on 14 November and offers engaging and fascinating insight into the scientis…

CSIC Investigator Dr James Talbot and University of Cambridge PhD student Tobias Carrigan have won the Best Paper Presentation award at an international railway conference in Ghent, Belgium.The paper titled ‘Extracting information from axle-box accelerometers: on the derivation of rail roughness spectra in the presence of wheel roughness’ features …

Nicholas de Battista, CSIC Research Associate, has been elected to the Council of the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII).The announcement confirming the newly-elected members was welcomed by the President, Zhishen Wu, and the ISHMII Executive Committee. ISHMII is a non-profit organisation o…

The Head of CSIC, Professor Lord Robert Mair and academics and researchers from the Department of Engineering welcomed The Duke of York when he visited the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS) at the new Civil Engineering Building, on the West Site of the…

CSIC’s award winning collaborative project designing an early warning solution for slope failures at a mainline railway cutting is featured in the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering SurveyorsGeospatial Engineering 2019-2020. The article ‘On track: Fibre optic sensing for safer real-time rockfall monitoring of rail cuttings’ describes the pr…