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A new paper that defines smart infrastructure and its benefits has been launched on CSIC’s website today.The collaborative paper has been produced by a number of leading professionals and academics, including CSIC Director Jennifer Schooling and CSIC Co-Investigator Ajith Parlikad, in a bid to facilitate the industry adoption of ‘Smart’. The Smart …

Supporting the national drive to inspire more women to build careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), we introduce a series of interviews that showcases the talent and diversity of women working in science and engineering with CSIC.Name: Viorica Pătrăucean, 32Job title: Research associate, CSIC• How and why did you get into eng…

A novel monitoring technology, CSattAR, designed and developed by CSIC PhD student Mehdi Alhaddad has been shortlisted for three New Civil Engineer Tunnelling Awards 2016, the annual awards that showcase the best in tunneling expertise.Mehdi has developed the innovative photogrammetric system to address tunnel monitoring challenges, including probl…

A ground-breaking paper reporting the experimental observation of up to 28 orders of parametric resonance, which has, until now, only been predicted in the theoretical realm, has been published in Scientific Reports.Titled Twenty-Eight Orders of Parametric Resonance in a Microelectromechanical Device for Multi-band Vibration Energy Harvesting, and …

Infrastructure contributes significantly to the economic and social well-being of our cities, but changing demographics and increased usage means there is pressing need to assess the resilience of our physical infrastructure – buildings, water, energy, transport and communication networks – for the future.An article titled Infrastructure Sensing, p…

The International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) 2016, organised and hosted by CSIC, brought together world-leading academics and practitioners from the fields of infrastructure planning, asset management and sensing. Image: Andrew Wolstenholme, Crossrail, delivering his keynote on day one of the conferenceThe need to d…

CSIC introduces an occasional series of Q&A sessions to showcase the expertise and innovation of its Industry Partners. Simon Maddison, Chief Operating Officer at Senceive, launches the series.What does Senceive do?Senceive develops and deploys wireless Remote Condition Monitoring (RCM) solutions for rail and construction applications.Describe the …

Cementation Skanska and CSIC win the Editor’s Award at the 2016 Ground Engineering Awards for the development of CemOptics.Over 600 industry professionals attended the GE magazine awards, held at the Park Lane Hilton in London, to recognise significant achievements in the ground engineering sector.Cementation was recognised for the development of a…

In 2017, the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) is launching a new journal, Smart Infrastructure and Construction, as part of its Proceedings series.The journal will be co-edited by Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, and Professor Kenichi Soga, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA and CS…

Sinan Açikgöz, a Research Associate at CSIC, has been awarded an 1851 Royal Commission Science and Engineering Research Fellowship.The results of the highly-contested awards were announced in May. The 1851 Research Fellowships are intended to give early career scientists or engineers of exceptional promise the opportunity to conduct a research proj…

The Staffordshire Alliance project has won the best Major Project at the Rail Industry Innovation Awards (Modern Railways) and the Collaborative Working accolade at the 2016 UK Railway Industry Awards (Rail Technology Magazine).Image: Instrumented concrete rail bridge (Staffordshire Alliance project)The joint Staffordshire Alliance venture, compris…

In the face of extreme events that could impact lifeline systems, Professor Tom O’Rourke says industry and academia must work together to innovate the next generation of hazard resilient underground infrastructure. Pipelines are a ubiquitous and crucial part of our gas and liquid fuel, electric power, telecommunications, and water and wastewater in…

This year’s Annual Review is sub-titled Implementing Innovation and presents CSIC’s most recent projects and activities.The CSIC Annual Review 2016 is now available here.

Professor Lord Mair has written an opinion piece for the May issue of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) international journal Forensic Engineering. This is the premier forum for the publication of papers on the investigation of constructed facilities and systems that fail to perform, function or operate as intended, resulting in environmenta…

8power Limited, a new company spun out of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at the University of Cambridge to develop and commercialise novel technology for sensing and measurement in industrial applications, has received initial funding of approximately £700,000 from IP Group plc (LSE: IPO), the University of Cambridge and the U…