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CSIC's Dr Mohammed Elshafie wants to give London not just a brain, but an entire nervous system.In the future, a city will be like a vehicle – you get in and it can tell you the status of everything important you need to know."Here,” says Dr Mohammed Elshafie, opening an image on his computer screen that shows a network of snaking cables. “This is …

CALL FOR PARTICIPATIONCentre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) is organising its second workshop around the theme of Infrastructure Futureproofing to be held in Cambridge on 2nd April 2014. The CSIC invites infrastructure and non-infrastructure organisations that have interest in asset management to attend the workshop. The scope of …

CSIC’s Head, Prof Robert Mair, appointed to chair the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) Science Advisory Council. Professor Mair comments: “I am delighted to have been appointed to chair the DfT’s Science Advisory Council. There is clearly a wide variety of important and challenging issues being addressed by the DfT for which the science and e…

CSIC’s  Infrastructure Futureproofing Workshop was held at the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM) on 23rd January 2014.The workshop was organised by CSIC’s Dr Tariq Masood, Dr Jennifer Schooling and Professor Duncan McFarlane as part of CSIC's Futureproofing of Infrastructure project.The aim was to gather together people involved in infrastructure d…

CSIC’s work featured in the University of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering Newsletter.The latest issue of the Department of Engineering Newsletter is now available online as an electronic turn-page version.It features an article about CSIC’s Head, Professor Robert Mair and his interview for the BBC Radio 4 programme, The Life Scientific (pg 5)…

Leading academics at the University of Cambridge are joined by the Government’s Permanent Secretary for the Department for Transport to discuss the architectural, environmental and engineering challenges of transport planning.The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction's (CSIC) Head, Professor Robert Mair is to lead a panel discussion with…