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An article exploring the opportunities and challenges of smart cities brings focus to the potential to improve sustainable development, health outcomes, transport efficiency, and quality of life in urban environments throughout the country.In ‘Smart cities: a tool not a destination’ Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, makes the case for ex…

The first autumn CSIC Digital Cities for Change (DC2) seminar considered ‘Technologies and Strategies of 'coping'’ and featured two guest speakers who presented diverse topics of research. The seminar took place at the new Civil Engineering building on the West Cambridge site on 1 October.Funded by the Ove Arup Foundation and the Centre for Digital…

Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE has been awarded the President’s Medal by Andrew Wyllie CBE, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE).The President’s Medal is awarded annually by the ICE president to an outstanding civil engineer. Particular regard is shown to service that reflects the priorities and objectives that the president has identif…

CSIC hosted its annual partner party at its new home in the Civil Engineering Building on the West Cambridge Campus, which was officially opened by Andrew Wyllie CBE, President of the Institution of Engineers on the same day.The party, which was attended by many representatives from CSIC partner organisations including Highways England, HS2, TfL, M…

CSIC’s innovative way of monitoring the health of ageing railway infrastructure won the New Civil Engineer TechFest Rail Visionary award last night in London.The award recognises organisations developing pioneering ideas and designs to effect major changes in the global rail sector.Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, said: “We are absolutely t…

CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling features in this month’s Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) magazine, Modus. The publication includes the latest news and views, expert advice and in-depth features on the surveying profession around the world. Dr Schooling was invited to take part in the latest magazine which is titled ‘The Precisi…

Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, gave the opening presentation at the National Infrastructure Commission’s Future of Infrastructure 2019 conference“Data is vitally important to maximise efficiency of new and existing infrastructure and the key to fully exploiting digital transformation of infrastructure and construction.” Professor Lord Ro…

CSIC moved into the new Civil Engineering building last week, which houses the National Research Facility in Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS), as part of the Department of Engineering’s ‘Move West’ strategy. The University of Cambridge received £18million in 2015 to build a National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing as part of wider invest…

CSIC hosted a roundtable discussion during the 2018 Global Engineering Conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London to explore exploiting data as an engineering tool to mitigate climate change and a paper summarising this discussion has been published today.The roundtable participants included experts from the infrastructure and const…

The International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), held at Churchill College Cambridge last week, brought together world-leading experts from the increasingly dynamic field of smart infrastructure and construction including academics, practitioners and policy makers from infrastructure planning, construction, asset manag…

Professor Lord Robert Mair welcomes investment in further education and brings focus to funding of higher education at a Lords debate on the Augar Review of Post-18 Education and Funding.The wide-ranging review led by Philip Augar was announced in February last year by Prime Minister Theresa May and the independent panel undertook a programme of st…

The 2019 CSIC Annual Review has been published and is now available online.This year’s Annual Review, which features a foreword by Andrew Wyllie, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and former Chief Executive of Costain, and a contribution from Karen Alford, Flood and Coastal Risk Manager for the Environment Agency, explores data …

The Civil Engineering division of the University of Cambridge’s Department for Engineering is advertising for a University Lecturer in Structural Engineering.More information about the role is available on the University's jobs website at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/21094/. Cambridge's Civil Engineering Division has a world-leading reputation for Struct…

An article written by Dr Anne Kemp OBE, based upon her CSIC Distinguished Lecture, has been published in Infrastructure Intelligence.The thought-provoking article titled ‘Engaging our conscience to explore the future’ draws attention to the potential of smarter infrastructure to support a healthier and more prosperous society but raises questions a…

Announcement of the New Civil Engineer TechFest Awards 2019 shortlists includes two CSIC projects as finalists for three awards.• The CSIC Rockfall Early Warning System and CSIC Innovative Structural Health Monitoring of Ageing Railway Infrastructure have both been shortlisted for the Rail Visionary Award that recognises organisations developing pi…