24 May 2023
Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment update: Issue 3.0 May 2023 available now.
The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment has been updated to Issue 3.0 May 2023. The Code provides a mechanism that enables individual organisations to publicise their annual decarbonisation progress, and thereby collaborate and share best practice on their journey to Net Zero with the intention of accelerating progress across the indust…
13 Apr 2023
CSIC, Epsimon and partners’ project shortlisted for the GE Ground Engineering Awards 2023
The project ‘Real-time monitoring of sub-surface ground movement using a distributed fibre optic-instrumented geogrid’ has been shortlisted for the Ground Engineering Awards 2023 for Technical Excellence. This is a significant achievement for the project partners CSIC, Epsimon, HUESKER, Jacobs, Align JV and HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd as it recognises…
13 Apr 2023
This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog focuses on the relationship between climate change resilience in infrastructure and the health sector.
CSIC Research Associate Felipe Rojas Parra argues that as the damaging effects of the climate crisis increase, climate change resilience in infrastructure creates an invaluable opportunity for the health sector.In his blog entitled Climate resilience in infrastructure – a hidden gem lies within the health sector,Felipe Rojas Parraprovides an overvi…
29 Mar 2023
‘Mission Net Zero’: What UKCRIC experts think about the Skidmore Review
On 28 March 2023, PoliticsHome published a featured article by the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) entitled Mission Zero: Why the Skidmore Review can kickstart the nation’s journey to net zero. The article is the result of a conversation between PoliticsHome and UKCRIC academic experts on Chris Skidmore’s Net Z…
28 Mar 2023
This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog highlights the importance of considering human behaviour when designing smart infrastructure systems.
Jim Johnson, director at ARUP and digital leader in the UK, India, Middle East and Africa region, argues that, as the future of human civilization increasingly depends on smart infrastructure, reaching the best solutions for italso hinges on bringing people and human behaviour into the equation.In his blog entitled On designing our human future, Ji…
14 Mar 2023
International Women’ s Day: Founding Head of CSIC addresses the importance of attracting more women into engineering.
On 10 March 2023, Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, spoke in the House of Lords contributing to the debate on International Women’s Day stressing the importance of inspiring more women to study engineering.In his speech, Lord Mair emphasised both the important role that engineers play in tackling …
1 Mar 2023
CSIC Partner Strategy Day 2023
On Friday 24 February 2023, CSIC hosted our annual Partner Strategy Day at Robinson College, Cambridge. The event included presentations by CSIC academics and members of the CSIC Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel (ECAPP) followed by roundtable discussions.ECAPP was appointed by CSIC in June 2022 with the purpose to:To increase the dive…
27 Feb 2023
Carbon Reduction Code Ecosystem Map
A new Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment Ecosystem Map has been published to enable organisations to visualise and understand how the Code fits with other initiatives and to help them in achieving the commitments of the Code.The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, which forms part of the Construction Leadership Council’s C…
27 Feb 2023
This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog focuses on what it is needed to build and maintain resilient infrastructure systems, underlying the need for understanding the key challenges.
CSIC Senior Research Associate Manu Sasidharan calls for incorporating resilience consideration into the planning and decision-making of infrastructure and integrating digitalisation into asset management practices to respond to potential infrastructure failure.In his blog entitled ‘Resilient infrastructure systems – are we there yet?’, Manu Sasidh…
3 Feb 2023
Horizon Europe: UK Participation. Founding Head of CSIC raises fundamental questions about the outstanding post-Brexit uncertainty for UK universities.
On 31 January 2023, Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, raised important questions in the House of Lords about the future of UK Participation in Horizon Europe.Horizon Europe is the largest international research and innovation funding programme in the world, with an £81bn pot to be spent over seven…
31 Jan 2023
Improving construction material efficiency
Omar Abo Madyan, CSIC Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, has recently published a new blog at PBC Today entitled ‘Improving construction material efficiency by uncovering blind spots’, which discusses how to tackle carbon blind spots and data gaps that are holding back construction material efficiency.Embodied carbon hotspots in cem…
25 Jan 2023
The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment: First Series of Case Studies
CSIC is delighted to announce publication of the first series of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment case studies showcasing some of the organisations that have achieved the PLEDGER level of the Code. This first series of case studies includes four organisations: City Building Engineering Services (CBES), Interclass PLC, Southern Co…
19 Jan 2023
'Preparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society'. Founding Head of CSIC contributes to the debate on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning Committee Report.
On the 12th of January 2023, Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, contributed to the debate in the House of Lords onthe ‘Select Committee Report on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning’. TheReport was entitledPreparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society published on 3rd December 2021 with…
9 Jan 2023
This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog looks at factors that influence the effective digital innovation of the infrastructure industry
John Pelton MBE, Enterprise Programme Director at Costain, highlights the importance of digitalisation in the infrastructure industry while recognising the challenges that the industry faces in exploiting digitalisation.The Blog entitled ‘What's stopping digital innovation? Rethinking the relationship between the parties’ discusses some of the main…
4 Jan 2023
Read a recent publication on bridge scour management by CSIC researchers and colleagues at Network Rail
CSIC researchers, Dr Manu Sasidharan, Dr Ajith Parlikad, Dr Jennifer Schooling, and Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou, and colleagues from Network Rail, Matthew Hamer, Andy Kirwan, Steve Roffe have recently published the paper, ‘A bridge scour risk management approach to deal with uncertain climate future’This paper puts forward a systematic approach to p…
