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The National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS) has launched its website and Twitter account this week. NRFIS is hosted by the University of Cambridge and will be housed in the new Civil Engineering Building in the west of the city, which CSIC will move to in July. NRFIS is part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastruc…

Gianluigi Della Ragione, a visiting student to CSIC, received an award for the best student in the structural and geotechnical engineering department in 2019 from the University of Naples Federico II.Gianluigi Della Ragione, an MSc student, is working on the sinkhole detection project which is led by Dr Christelle Abadie and will be with CSIC until…

PhD student at the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology receives research fellowship to continue work in satellite monitoring of infrastructure.We are delighted to announce that Laing O’Rourke Centre student Sakthy Selvakumaran has been awarded the Isaac Newton Trust/Newnham College Research Fellowship in Engineering. T…

A paper titled ‘Digitalisation for smarter cities: moving from a static to a dynamic view’ co-authored by CSIC Research Associates and Investigators has been published by the Institution for Civil Engineers (ICE) Journal of Smart Infrastructure and Construction (SMIC).The authors include: Dr Timea Nochta, Research Associate at CSIC; Dr Li Wan, Lect…

Dr Anne Kemp, Chair of the UK BIM Alliance and Fellow and Technical Director for Digital Engineering and BIM Strategy and Development at Atkins has been awarded the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for 2019 for services to Digital Construction Innovation.Image: Dr Anne Kemp presenting the CSIC Distinguished Lec…

CSIC fibre optic sensing systems designed for Hooley Cutting, which carries the main railway line from London to Brighton through the North Downs, won the Best Use of Technology award at the Rail Partnership Awards held last night (5 June), in Birmingham.Image: The CSIC winning team (from left) Dr Xiaomin Xu, Research Associate, Dr Cedric Kechavarz…

The full programme for the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), that takes place at Churchill College, Cambridge, is now available to view online.Each of the three conference days starts with a keynote speaker: On Monday 8 July, Keith Bowers, Transport for London, will present ‘Smart Infrastructure and Construc…

Two CSIC projects have been shortlisted for the Rail Partnership Awards 2019. ‘Structural Health Monitoring Systems’ and ‘Smart Railway Infrastructure’ have both been shortlisted for the Best Use of Technology category which recognises suppliers that have used new technologies to help transform Britain’s railway demonstrating new ways of working, …

The process of digitising assets and increasing importance of data curation and sharing is discussed in an Institution of Engineers (ICE) Knowledge Podcast featuring Karen Alford, Flood and Coastal Risk Manager for the Environment Agency, specialising in asset data and information.Reflecting on the Environment Agency’s digital journey, Karen talks …

A paper co-authored by CSIC researchers and academics has been awarded the 2019 James Croes Medal from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE).Titled ‘Structural Performance Monitoring Using a Dynamic Data-Driven BIM Environment’, and published in the Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering in May 2018, the paper explores the development o…

Supporting the national drive to inspire more women to build careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), CSIC features a series of interviews to showcase the talent and diversity of women working in science and engineering with CSIC.Nicole Badstuber, Research Assistant in Urban Systems and Infrastructure• How and why did you get i…

An article about the design and construction of Principal Tower, London, has been published in the Structural Engineer Journal, the flagship publication of the Institution of Structural Engineers. Written by R. Slade, M. Sharratt, R. Harvey, N. Petrioli of international engineering consultancy WSP, the article highlights CSIC’s innovative axial sho…

Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, presented a keynote lecture at UCL’s Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management as part of a programme to bring together leading practitioners, academics and professionals in project management, economics and construction to share experience and spark discussions around the future of infrastr…

An underground farming project is the focus for a business and finance cable television network CNBC programme presenting research aimed at reducing energy consumption. The programme features CSIC investigator and head of the cross-disciplinary Energy Efficient Cities Initiative (EECi) Dr Ruchi Choudhary and EECi PhD researcher Melanie Jans-Singh.I…

The Department of Engineering welcomed more than 1,000 people on Saturday (16 March) for a day of activities, demonstrations and talks for the annual Cambridge Science Festival.CSIC and Laing O’Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology showcased a number of hands-on and family-friendly activities at their event ‘Smart Building, Smar…