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The CSIC Distinguished Lecture 2023 titled "Infrastructure - can't measure, can't improve?" is now available to view on the CSIC YouTube channel.During his Distinguished Lecture, Professor Mair provided a detailed account of the 13-year history of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC). The lecture's title was inspire…

The paper “Innovative monitoring of the response of a heritage masonry building to nearby tunnelling in London Clay”, by Professor Sinan Acikgoz, Antonio Luciano, Mark Dewhirst, Matthew J. Dejong and Professor Lord Robert Mair, has received this year’s Charles Manby Prize at the ICE Award Ceremony 2023 for best paper. The Manby Prize, one of ICE’s …

DARe, the new Research Hub for Decarbonised Adaptable and Resilient Transport Infrastructures has received £10 million in funding from the Department for Transport and UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). Led by Newcastle University, the Research Hub includes partner institutions such as the universities of Cambridge, Glasgow, and Heriot-Watt. Dr Jen…

The CSIC Distinguished Lecture 2023 will be presented by the founding head of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and Emeritus Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering at Cambridge University, Lord Robert Mair on 28 September.Professor Mair is  also one of the founding Directors of the Geotechnical Consulting Group (GC…

On 21 June 2023, the British Geotechnical Association Case History Award 2022 was presented to Dr Njemile Faustin, Dr Mohammed Elshafie (in absentia) and Professor Lord Robert Mair for their paper “Case studies of circular shaft construction in London”. The announcement took place during the AGM of the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) annual …

The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) will take part in the new digital twin research network hosted by the Alan Turing Institute, which has secured £3 million from UKRI. The funding will promote collaboration and innovation across academia, industry and other stakeholders.Digital twins are computational models designed to rep…

Owen Tarrant, Programme Manager, Net Zero Carbon for Infrastructure at the Environment Agency (EA), who recently achieved CHAMPION level of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, argues that it is essential to see Net Zero as a people challenge first and foremost.In his blog entitled Decarbonisation is a people challenge, Owen Tarrant…

Nominations are now being accepted for new prospective members to the second cohort of the CSIC ‘Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel’ (ECAPP). The purposes of ECAPP are:To increase the diversity of views that are considered in CSIC’s strategic decision making.To strengthen connections between CSIC, its industry partners, and its broader …

CSIC is delighted to announce that contractors Mace and Galliford Try have achieved PLEDGER level of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment.The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, which is hosted by CSIC and is part of the Construction Leadership Council’s Construct Zero initiative, is structured around commitments that st…

CSIC is delighted to announce that the Environment Agency (EA) has met the criteria to achieve CHAMPION level of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment.The Environment Agency joins a growing community of Code compliant organisations. The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, which is hosted by CSIC and is part of the Constru…

On 7 June 2023, Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, participated in the debate in the House of Lords on the Science and Technology Committee Report: "Science and Technology Superpower - more than a slogan?".In 2022, the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee  conducted an inquiry into the g…

Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong, CSIC Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, has recently published a new blog at BIM Today entitled ‘Why organisational strategy is crucial in delivering net zero buildings’, which looks at the organisational strategies used to deliver net zero buildings through innovative manufacturing techniques and digit…

CSIC is delighted to announce the launch of the two-day Executive Education Course in Leadership of Urban Digital Innovation for Public Value (LeadUP).The Course is designed for senior executives and professionals in leadership roles working in public and private organisations involved in the delivery of digital innovation projects with a focus on …

CSIC in collaboration with the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy has published the final report from the EPSRC–NSF Infrastructure workshop in New York last July: The Role of Funding, Financing and Emerging Technologies in Delivering and Managing Infrastructure for the 21st Century.This EPSRC–NSF funded workshop, was hosted by the Cambridge C…

CSIC Research Associate Viviana Angely Bastidas Melo argues that urban systems that integrate social and technical domains are becoming more and more necessary and ‘a critical planning and management responsibility’.In her latest blog entitled How do we conceptualise and design urban interventions that satisfy the social and technological needs of …