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CSIC, Epsimon and partners’ project shortlisted for the GE Ground Engineering Awards 2023

13 April 2023

The project ‘Real-time monitoring of sub-surface ground movement using a distributed fibre optic-instrumented geogrid’ has been shortlisted for the Ground Engineering Awards 2023 for Technical Excellence. This is a significant achievement for the project partners CSIC , Epsimon , HUESKER , Jacobs , Align JV and HS2 (High...

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog focuses on the relationship between climate change resilience in infrastructure and the health sector.

13 April 2023

CSIC Research Associate Felipe Rojas Parra argues that as the damaging effects of the climate crisis increase, climate change resilience in infrastructure creates an invaluable opportunity for the health sector. In his blog entitled Climate resilience in infrastructure – a hidden gem lies within the health sector , Felipe...

‘Mission Net Zero’: What UKCRIC experts think about the Skidmore Review

29 March 2023

On 28 March 2023, PoliticsHome published a featured article by the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) entitled Mission Zero: Why the Skidmore Review can kickstart the nation’s journey to net zero . The article is the result of a conversation between PoliticsHome and UKCRIC academic...

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog highlights the importance of considering human behaviour when designing smart infrastructure systems.

28 March 2023

Jim Johnson, director at ARUP and digital leader in the UK, India, Middle East and Africa region, argues that, a s the future of human civilization increasingly depends on smart infrastructure, reaching the best solutions for it also hinges on bringing people and human behaviour into the equation. In his blog entitled On...

International Women’ s Day: Founding Head of CSIC addresses the importance of attracting more women into engineering.

14 March 2023

On 10 March 2023, Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, spoke in the House of Lords contributing to the debate on International Women’s Day stressing the importance of inspiring more women to study engineering. In his speech, Lord Mair emphasised both the important role that...

CSIC Partner Strategy Day 2023

1 March 2023

On Friday 24 February 2023, CSIC hosted our annual Partner Strategy Day at Robinson College, Cambridge. The event included presentations by CSIC academics and members of the CSIC Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel ( ECAPP ) followed by roundtable discussions. ECAPP was appointed by CSIC in June 2022 with the...

Carbon Reduction Code Ecosystem Map

27 February 2023

A new Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment Ecosystem Map has been published to enable organisations to visualise and understand how the Code fits with other initiatives and to help them in achieving the commitments of the Code. The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, which forms part of the...

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog focuses on what it is needed to build and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, underlying the need for understanding the key challenges.

27 February 2023

CSIC Senior Research Associate Manu Sasidharan calls for incorporating resilience consideration into the planning and decision-making of infrastructure and integrating digitalisation into asset management practices to respond to potential infrastructure failure. In his blog entitled ‘ Resilient infrastructure systems – are...

Horizon Europe: UK Participation. Founding Head of CSIC raises fundamental questions about the outstanding post-Brexit uncertainty for UK universities.

3 February 2023

On 31 January 2023, Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, raised important questions in the House of Lords about the future of UK Participation in Horizon Europe. Horizon Europe is the largest international research and innovation funding programme in the world, with an £81bn...

Improving construction material efficiency

31 January 2023

Omar Abo Madyan, CSIC Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, has recently published a new blog at PBC Today entitled ‘Improving construction material efficiency by uncovering blind spots’, which discusses how to tackle carbon blind spots and data gaps that are holding back construction material efficiency...

CSIC, Epsimon and partners’ project shortlisted for the GE Ground Engineering Awards 2023

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog focuses on the relationship between climate change resilience in infrastructure and the health sector.

‘Mission Net Zero’: What UKCRIC experts think about the Skidmore Review

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog highlights the importance of considering human behaviour when designing smart infrastructure systems.

International Women’ s Day: Founding Head of CSIC addresses the importance of attracting more women into engineering.

CSIC Partner Strategy Day 2023

Carbon Reduction Code Ecosystem Map

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog focuses on what it is needed to build and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, underlying the need for understanding the key challenges.

Horizon Europe: UK Participation. Founding Head of CSIC raises fundamental questions about the outstanding post-Brexit uncertainty for UK universities.

Improving construction material efficiency

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