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The flagship lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering was presented by Professor Lord Mair, Head of CSIC, on 24 November and is now available to watch here.Video:Professor Lord Mair, Hinton Lecture 2015Lord Mair, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, CBE FRS, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Head of Civil Engineering at…

Musa Chunge, who recently completed his MPhil research at CSIC, has been named as one of Sir John Armitt’s apprentices for 2015/16.Image: Musa Chunge has been named as one of Sir John Armitt's apprenticesSir John, the incoming President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) whose tenure began in November, has continued the ICE tradition of se…

CSIC’s mission to transform the future of infrastructure and support the UK to become a world leader in the fields of sensing technologies, asset management and smart city development is assured following the announcement of a further five years funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and Innovate UK.Image: Londo…

Key industry players demand more women in engineering – including CSIC Director Jennifer Schooling Engineering Change film produced by ICEA fast-paced, fact-packed short talking-heads film made to mark the annual Women in Science and Engineering Conference pulls no punches in calling for an ‘open and candid discussion’ across the engineering in…

Image: UK Motorway, courtesy of Castings Services GroupIt is estimated that the UK will need to spend in the region of £400 billion on new and refurbished infrastructure by 2020 in order to address historic underinvestment. Britain’s road network is set to receive a long overdue boost in investment. The nation’s future social well-being and economi…

CSIC’s comprehensive instrumentation of the Department of Engineering’s James Dyson Building has achieved a first.Image courtesy of Department of Engineering. Tom Dyson, front, leads the topping out ceremony for the new James Dyson BuildingAt the topping out ceremony for the £13.3 million development, Angus Stephen, Operations Director, Estate Mana…

CSIC’s key aim is that the technologies emerging from world-leading research taking place here at the University of Cambridge are used to transform the construction industry to achieve sustainability in an integrated way. Image: NCE Future Technology Forum, London. Photograph by Phil KeenanThis can only be realised by close collaboration with indus…

The Civil Engineering Triennial Summit 2015: Resilience and Growth for Future Cities brings together three global engineering institutions – the Institution of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and Canadian Society of Civil Engineers to deliver a summit on resilience and growth.Image courtesy of ICEThe new reality of extreme weat…

The annual CSIC Industry Partner Summer Event, which took place at Peterhouse College, combined Pecha Kucha presentations, afternoon tea and croquet on the lawn.Image: CSIC Industry Partner Summer Event 2015 at Peterhouse CollegeJennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, thanked the Industry Partners present at the informal gathering for their continued…

Professor Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, has been appointed to the House of Lords as an independent crossbencher. Image: Professor Lord Mair - newly appointed to the House of LordsAs a crossbencher, he will owe no allegiance to a political party and will maintain the ability to take part in legislative debates free of party considerations.Professor Mai…

Heba Bevan and Mehdi Alhaddad, both PhD students at CSIC, have secured six award nominations for the NCE Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards 2015, to be announced in London on 3 Dec 2015.New Civil Engineer Editor, Mark Hansford, said: “This year's finalists have all demonstrated how the international tunnelling industry has continued to drive i…

SimCity is becoming reality as dynamic simulation models allow cities to adapt their masterplans as political and social needs change says Elisabete SilvaAs hubs of economic and social power, our cities are constantly evolving as individual and collective decisions are made about their construction, adaptation and use.Such changes present city plan…

Professor Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, will give this year’s Hinton Lecture, the flagship annual lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering.Professor Mair’s lecture, titled Creating underground infrastructure – the role of geotechnical engineering, will address the challenges of creating urban underground infrastructure – in particular the developme…

The inaugural Skempton Lecture of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, titled The Role of Distributed Sensing in Understanding the Engineering Performance of Geotechnical Structures, was given by CSIC Co-Investigator Professor Kenichi Soga.The opening day of the conference, hosted by the British Geotechnical A…

The latest in a series of CSIC Future Technologies Workshops, Big Data – the Art of the Possible, attracted 50 leading professionals and academics from more than 30 organisations keen to discuss big data in the context of smart infrastructure and construction.The event, held at the Institute of Manufacturing, was the first of its kind to explore th…