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CSIC’s innovative bridge monitoring system for the Staffordshire Alliance has been shortlisted for the Product and Service Innovation award at the UK Rail and Industry Awards (UKRIA) 2017. Working with Industry Partners Network Rail, Laing O’Rourke and Atkins, CSIC engaged with the Staffordshire Alliance at the early stages of this project to deplo…

The case for Smart Infrastructure as defined in the Smart Infrastructure Paper, a collaboration between CSIC and industry experts, is made in an article published in the latest edition of Infrastructure Intelligence.Written by CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling and Mott MacDonald Global Water Sector Leader, Mark Enzer, the article highlights the b…

New video about getting virtual infrastructure models out of the computer and into the workspaceThe University of Cambridge has published a new video explaining how engineers will soon be able to visualize Building Information Models (BIMs) in full scale at their offices or superimposed on the real structure at construction sites, thanks to technol…

UtterBerry®, the new smart sensing technology, invented by former CSIC student Heba Bevan, has been announced as the chosen advanced technology for export to China.Inventor and founder of UtterBerry, Heba Bevan, was invited by the Department for International Trade (DIT) to visit Shenzhen, Chongqing and Hong Kong last year as part of the UK-China …

Campbell Middleton, Professor of Construction Engineering at the University of Cambridge and CSIC Co-Investigator, has been appointed to the Independent Design Panel for High Speed Two.The Panel is the project’s independent advisor on design and includes specialists in procurement, engineering, architecture, town planning, rail, branding and commun…

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CSIC is part of three collaborative projects which have recently won funding from the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK. Through the First of a Kind Deployment of Innovation competition Innovate UK has made £19 million available to evaluate new infrastructure technologies for the first time in real-world environments. The following projects have …

CSIC’s deployment of fibre optic sensing to monitor masonry arch bridges has provided new insights into the behaviour of this type of structure and could provide a simple and affordable method to identify structural damage.Image: An arch instrumented with FBG cables and photogrammetry targets in the Marsh Lane Viaduct, LeedsWorking with Industry Pa…

On the 1st of November 2016 Professor Tim Broyd succeeded from Sir John Armitt as President of the Institution of Civil Engineers.Professor Broyd's presidential address given at ICE's London headquarters was entitled 'Engineering a Digital Future.' The talk called for digital technology to be embraced and set out "how digital engineering can transf…

How academia and industry can work together to drive innovation Image: Underbridge 11, part of the Stafford Area Improvements Programme - A prestressed concrete girder bridge with cast-in-situ concrete deck instrumented with distributed and discrete fibre optic sensorsThe original version of this article first appeared in Infrastructure Intelligenc…

Civil engineering students from around the world travelled to Cambridge to learn from international experts in the field of smart structures for a three-week summer school sponsored by CSIC.Students attended lectures from an international panel of academics including, Professor Kenichi Soga (University of Cambridge, University of California, Berkel…

The article, Management of Structural Monitoring Data of Bridges Using BIM, is now freely available for download from the ICE Virtual Library. This article, forming part of a themed issue of ICE Bridge Engineering on Information Technology in Bridge Engineering and Construction, was written by CSIC (and former CSIC) researchers Manuel Davila, Liam …

Four guides written by CSIC’s leading experts across the fields of asset management, wireless sensors, distributed fibre optic strain sensing and bridge monitoring can now be purchased individually or as a set from ICE Publishing. The guides are intended to be far-reaching, informing and supporting the construction industry, infrastructure owners a…

'Just how 'smart' is our transport infrastructure?' Earlier this year , the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at the University of Cambridge was commissioned to prepare a report outlining a series of policy recommendations for the Government's Transport Chief Scientific Advisor.Image courtesy Department for Transpor…

A collaborative initiative between CSIC, Atkins, Laing O’Rourke, VolkerRail and Network Rail has been shortlisted for an Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Innovation Award.Image: Still from CSIC video about the Staffordshire Alliance project. See video hereShortlisted in the Transport section, CSIC’s Advanced Instrumentation of Struct…