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CSIC has been shortlisted in six categories for the Ground Engineering Awards 2019, for the Hooley Cuttings Fibre Optic Sensing project. The project was a collaboration between Network Rail, BAM Nuttall, BAM Ritchies and L&C Precision and was led by CSIC Business Development Manager Philip Keenan. The categories in which CSIC have been shortlisted …

The future of commuting into Cambridge, including how congestion can be reduced and air quality improved, will be explored as part of a new collaboration between CSIC and Smart Cambridge.Our research associates are working with officers from Cambridgeshire County Council's transport, sustainability and planning departments to plan how digital techn…

BIM+, the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) publication, has published an interview with CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE that discusses BIM as information management across the whole lifecycle of an asset.Asked about her views on the national progress of BIM, Dr Schooling said; “There are obvious benefits during design and delivery, bu…

The National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) has published its Annual Monitoring Report 2019Established in 2015, the Commission has published six in-depth studies at the request of government, including: Smart Power; Transport for a World City; High Speed North; Connected Future; Partnering for Prosperity; and Data for the Public Good.In 2018 the C…

Head of CSIC, Professor Lord Robert Mair has been elected to the US National Academy of Engineering. The Academy elected Lord Mair for contributions to underground construction and smart infrastructure and for leadership in government, engineering practice, research, and education. The Academy announced the news yesterday (7 February) and said bein…

The 2019 International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) will bring together world-leading academics and practitioners from the fields of infrastructure planning, asset management and sensing. Registration for this event is now open.The unique combination of fields and disciplines focusing on the power of smarter informati…

This month’s Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Construction Journal features an article written by Dr Jennifer Schooling stating the case for securing better value from data.The February issue of Construction Journal explores the ways in which we shape buildings and they, in turn, shape us.  In the article titled ‘Better Data’ Dr School…

Professor Lord Robert Mair, a member of the Science and Technology Select Committee which recently undertook an inquiry into the potential of off-site manufacture, contributed to a House of Lords debate about transforming construction. Lord Mair has also written an article published by PoliticsHome stating the case for off-site manufacture technol…

Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC and Chair of the Research Strategy Steering Group at the Centre for Digital Built Britain, has been awarded an OBE for services to Engineering and to Digital Construction. Image: Dr Jennifer Schooling, OBE, Director of CSICThe New Year’s Honours list recognises the achievements and service of extraordinary p…

The project, titled ‘Fibre Bragg Grating-Based Real-Time and Low Maintenance Strain Monitoring of Existing Assets’, won the Innovation in Instrumentation and Monitoring award which recognises innovation and excellence in site surveying and monitoring on tunnelling projects.The CSIC team, led by Dr Sinan Açikgöz, former post-doctorate fellow at CSIC…

Infrastructure and construction partners joined academics for the annual CSIC Strategy Day, on Monday 3 December, to identify projects that will be developed to address real industry challenges.Image: Workshop discussion at CSIC 2018 Partner Strategy DayThis year’s Strategy Day focused on nine themes which were generated from a call to partners for…

An innovative distributed fibre optic sensor (DFOS) monitoring system that can be embedded within the structure of a high-rise building to continuously measure the shortening of columns and walls along the entire building height, as the building is being constructed, is featured in the monthly journal of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineeri…

CSIC held a roundtable discussion as a fringe event at the Global Engineering Congress (GEC) at the ICE Headquarters in London. The roundtable, Smart sustainability - Data and information as engineering tools to mitigate climate change, included leading figures from the infrastructure and construction sector, academia, sustainability, finance, ins…

In a House of Lords debate about the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy, Professor Lord Robert Mair brought focus to the need for international collaboration post-Brexit.

Dr Kemp’s lecture titled ‘A glimpse into the future.... by considering the past. The challenges, the opportunities – and our consciences,’ draws attention to the potential of smarter infrastructure to support a healthier and more prosperous society but raises questions about the ethics required to safeguard data use and how to ensure that, as human…