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Read more at: Future Studies on the impact of COVID-19 on the built environment
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Future Studies on the impact of COVID-19 on the built environment

28 April 2020

Researchers are contributing to a study to understand the possible post-pandemic futures for the built environment. In an effort to raise awareness of different future-alternatives, as well as of the possibility that these future alternatives can be shaped by different strategies that we can start to work on today, a group...


Read more at: Deciding our (urban) futures: the role of data and digital modelling
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Deciding our (urban) futures: the role of data and digital modelling

17 April 2020

Modelling has been at the front and centre of the UK government’s coronavirus response. The past few weeks has seen mainstream media outlets bombarding the general public with constant news about different models developed by various research groups – and the diversity of scenarios and projections these models produce...


Read more at: Digital Cities for Change video conference seminar considers infrastructure and impact
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Digital Cities for Change video conference seminar considers infrastructure and impact

14 April 2020

The first-ever video-conference Digital Cities for Change (DC2) seminar brought together research students and academics to consider ethnographic approaches to infrastructure and impact. The series of seminars usually takes place at the Civil Engineering Building, at the West Cambridge Site of the University of Cambridge...


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A GIS-based infrastructure management system to increase resilience of terrestrial transportation networks

Increasing resilience of terrestrial transportation networks with GIS

9 April 2020

The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-based infrastructure management system for optimised response to extreme events on terrestrial transport networks, has been featured in an article by CSIC researchers Dr Ajith Parlikad, Reader in Asset Management, Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge and CSIC Investigator, and Dr...


Read more at: CICES becomes licensed member of the Engineering Council
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CICES becomes licensed member of the Engineering Council

25 March 2020

The Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES) and Engineering Council have announced that CICES has received approval to become a Licensed Member of the Engineering Council and assess its members for professional registration at the grades of Chartered Engineer and Incorporated Engineer. The institution...


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Collaborative projects feature in Civil Engineering Surveyor

20 March 2020

A three-year collaborative project to drive a new culture in the construction industry to improve whole-life sustainability and productivity has been featured in Civil Engineering Surveyor, the monthly journal of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors. The innovative research is being carried out by Dr...


Read more at: CSIC project features in New Civil Engineer
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CSIC project features in New Civil Engineer

11 March 2020

An article titled ‘Future of Rail: Artificial intelligence helps Network Rail’s maintenance regime’ published in New Civil Engineer includes the CSIC award-winning project monitoring a masonry viaduct in Leeds for Network Rail. CSIC's innovative approach to monitoring the health of ageing railway infrastructure won the New...


Read more at: Dr Didem Gurdur Broo awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship
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Dr Didem Gurdur Broo awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Individual Fellowship

11 March 2020

Dr Didem Gurdur Broo has been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to develop a conceptual framework for human-centred sustainable future cyber-physical systems. This fellowship will enable her to undertake a new research project in collaboration with Professor Leifer’s designX research lab at...


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Are digital twins the next phase of the AI revolution?

27 February 2020

The Turing Talk 2020 by Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Cambridge, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair, Academic Director of CDBB, and Director of the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Programme on Data Centric Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, played...


Read more at: Read CSIC’s winter newsletter

Read CSIC’s winter newsletter

20 February 2020

Highlights of the newsletter include t his year’s CSIC Partner Strategy Day which brought together partners and academics to discuss pressing industry challenges that CSIC’s future research agenda will seek to address. In other news: one CSIS Research Associate makes the case for understanding data to win the AI race; an...


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