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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 …

CSIC co-organised the Second International Smart Infrastructure Symposium at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan, following the first symposium in November 2012 in Cambridge.The event attracted media attention and a feature highlighting the significance of the symposium appeared in the national Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun.Prof Kenichi Soga, CSIC…

Engineers from CrossRail, Laing O’Rourke, and ATC were among key speakers at CSIC’s Workshop on AutoID for Smart Assets and Cities which discussed the challenges of tackling asset identification. Experts from the Cambridge University AutoID Labs and FlyingBinary put these challenges into perspective with reports of progress in other industries and …

CSIC has completed the first ever deployment of distributed fibre optics to monitor sprayed concrete tunnel linings at Crossrail’s Liverpool Street station.CSIC engineers have installed innovative distributed fibre optic sensing technology in sprayed concrete lining (SCL) at the Crossrail site. This is the first deployment of its kind in the UK – u…

The CSIC website story about the proposed testing of vibration energy harvesting on the Forth Road Bridge has made front page news on the award-winning, monthly flagship magazine of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Civil Engineering. Reaching an audience of 140,000 civil engineers worldwide, this magazine has the largest circulation in the …

CSIC presented the Second International Smart Infrastructure Symposium at Kansai University in Osaka, Japan.Prof Kenichi Soga, CSIC Co-Investigator, gave a keynote lecture titled ‘Innovation in sensor technologies to realise Smart Infrastructure’ which highlighted recent projects and developments emerging from the Centre.The two-day Symposium attra…

Head of CSIC, Professor Robert Mair talked Research, Innovation and Infrastructure at a joint BSI/ISO event held recently at the Royal Academy of Engineering, titled ‘A Vision for Infrastructure’. Professor Mair joined other distinguished global leaders from governments, regulators, city managers, funders, contractors, designers, project manager…

CSIC jointly convened a specialist workshop on rail-led urban innovation with the UK Science and Innovation Network (British Consulate General) in San Francisco, with industry sponsorship from AECOM and Arup. The workshop considered novel examples to reshape cities in London, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco. The outcomes will be published as a ke…

The UtterBerry, an intelligent wireless sensor system using the world’s smallest wireless sensors, has won an innovation award and is poised to take industry by storm. The UtterBerry has won the Crossrail Best Practice/Innovation Award for contractors Costain-Skanska who deployed the technology at a partially sealed adit complex at its Eleanor Stre…

There was competition on the croquet lawn at Trinity Hall but the CSIC Summer Event for Industry Partners was altogether convivial and informative.CSIC Head Professor Robert Mair thanked the Industry Partners attending for their support for the Centre explaining why collaboration with industry is vital to the development and deployment of CSIC’s se…

In February this year the ISO 55000 family of standards on asset management was published bringing worldwide attention to through-life management of physical assets. The ISO standards shift emphasis of asset management from minimising cost to realising value. This requires clearer determination of the value realised from assets and how to make valu…

High-quality infrastructure is the backbone of modern society, not only supporting economic growth and social mobility, but also everyday life itself. Structural monitoring of infrastructure is crucial but can be valueless unless it is carefully designed and deployed. CSIC's Dr Phil Catton, explores the importance of understanding the value of info…

As celebrations marking the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge reached their peak in September, a team from the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) prepares to meet future engineering challenges facing the Scottish landmark. The 2.5km long-span suspension bridge, which connects Edinburgh to Fife, now carries far…

CSIC was shortlisted for three significant International Tunnelling and Underground Space Awards for 2014, including Young Tunneller of the Year. The categories and CSIC projects featured included:Ground Investigation and Monitoring Award: The Smart TunnelProduct/Equipment Innovation of the Year: Photogrammetric Monitoring of Royal Mail Tunnel Youn…

Professor Robert Mair has been interviewed in conversation with CSIC’s International Advisory Group member Professor Bill Spencer, Director of the Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory, University of Illinois. Prof Spencer discusses his work in infrastructure monitoring, including the world-record holding Jindo Bridge, South Korea, which featur…