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UtterBerry, a wireless sensor system using miniature, ultra low-power sensors, developed by CSIC PhD student Heba Bevan, was Highly Commended at the prestigious and keenly-contested Construction News Specialist Awards announced last night at the London Hilton, Park Lane. UtterBerry, a wireless sensor system using miniature, ultra low-power sensors,…

What would it take to enable a piece of infrastructure to take care of itself ? - asks Duncan McFarlane of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction.What might asset intelligence mean in an infrastructure context? That was the question I was recently asked to provide a view on at a meeting on Infrastructure Asset Management at …

CSIC projects and technologies feature prominently in the newly announced shortlist for the prestigious Ground Engineering Awards 2015.CSIC projects are in the running for three awards including Ground Investigation Project of the Year, Award for Technical Excellence and the Product and Equipment Innovation Award 2015.CSIC PhD student Heba Bevan’s …

Intelligent wireless sensor, the UtterBerry, designed and patented by CSIC PhD student Heba Bevan, has received the Premier Digital Innovation Award at the CIOB International Innovation & Research Awards 2014. The Chartered Institute of Building’s (CIOB) International Innovation and Research Awards acknowledge the brightest industry newcomers al…

What do we build, how do we build it and who are we building for? These three critical questions must be addressed as we tackle infrastructure problems in the developing world. With many UK contractors and consultants operating internationally these questions will arise, and must be addressed, says Musa Chunge who recently completed his MPhil resea…

Solutions to Cambridge’s traffic problems are on the agenda following a call for the City Deal assembly to consider more radical solutions.CSIC Head, Professor Mair led a research project into the feasibility of a transport tunnel system under Cambridge in 2008, demonstrating the viability of constructing tunnels underneath the city centre to carry…

CSIC's Kenichi Soga, Cedric Kechavarzi, Philip Keenan, Laing O'Rourke's Musa Chunge and Arup's Vivien Kwan explain how embedding distributed fibre optic sensors in concrete offers a new approach to visualising underground concrete structural quality and assessing subsurface structural performance.A team at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for S…

In recent years sensor and communications research has been undergoing a quiet revolution, promising to have significant impact on a new generation of monitoring technologies for civil engineering infrastructure, says Professor Kenichi Soga of CSIC.Advances in the development of computer vision, fibre optics sensing and micro-electro-mechanical sys…

CSIC’s Cam Middleton appeared on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s Sue Dougan show to discuss how CSIC technologies are helping to safeguard the future of the Scotland’s Forth Road Bridge along with various other key strategic structures.Professor Middleton explained the range of sensing technologies CSIC is developing to help monitor and maintain buildin…

Sensing tools developed at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) will provide a central nervous system to the new James Dyson Building creating a hi-tech ‘living lab’. Construction has begun on the building, which will give those working inside it a chance to use their surroundings for research and teaching.The building has be…

Leading industry magazine New Civil Engineer interviews CSIC Director Jennifer Schooling for its Infrastructure Report 2015 to learn the latest about the future of fibre optic sensing technology. CSIC’s Phil Keenan talks business for the feature, which can be read here with kind permission from NCE (nce.co.uk). Fibre optic sensing technology could…

CSattAR and UtterBerry - two technologies that have been developed at CSIC - have been shortlisted in the Company Innovation section of the renowned Construction News Specialist Awards 2015. The Construction News Specialist Awards celebrate the very best in the UK construction Industry. CSIC CSattAR Photogrammetric Monitoring - a new digital ima…

CSIC features in an online news programme, promoting a greater understanding of the role engineering plays in our society and economy.The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) has produced an online news programme in association with ITN Productions, highlighting the importance and relevance of research funded by the Engineering and Physi…

A photograph taken by CSIC’s Dr Mohammed Elshafie is one of 10 images to appear on The Telegraph online from the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering Photography Competition. The image is from a series of photographs Mohammed has taken showing a number of engineers and students at work on sites and projects, both under and above grou…

CSIC has won the prestigious Ground Investigation and Monitoring Award for The Smart Tunnel at the International Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards, announced yesterday at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.CSIC beat a significant number of international entries and leading organisations to secure a podium place, having been shortlisted for three …