News

Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at Cambridge University recently participated in the UTS Zunz 2022 lecture on ‘Resetting our cities: A new balance for a low-carbon world’. As part of the annual lecture series hosted by ARUP, this year’s UTS Zunz convened several thought leaders and industry ex…

CSIC Research Associate Omar Abo Madyan asks if the construction industry is on track to achieve net zero – and sets out why addressing carbon blind spots across the value chain will present new opportunities to reduce emissions and create more accurate carbon models and targets.The blog, titled ‘Addressing carbon blind spots – redefining waste in …

Articles written by CSIC Investigators, Research Associates and member of the Carbon Code Advisory Group feature in a number of industry publications.Thought leadership articles written by: Dr Rehema Msulwa, Research Associate at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, titled ‘The role of infrastructure in levelling …

Ahead of COP27, CSIC is delighted to announce that Willmott Dixon and Kier have met the criteria to achieve CHAMPION 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 …

Read the latest Smart Infrastructure Blog ‘Digitalisation and smart cities: Identifying and addressing competency needs for the future’ which is now published.Written by CSIC Research Associate Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong, member of the CSIC Digital Cities for Change team, and published ahead of the Smart City Expo World Congress taking place in Barcelon…

National Engineering Day champions engineers making a difference in the world – #EngineerBetterLives. This year's Royal Academy of Engineering National Engineering Day celebrates engineers across the country who are working on projects and products that are improving lives.CSIC’s research and collaborative projects values data to support better dec…

The CSIC Digital Cities for Change team will be hosting a workshop at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona next month.The workshop titled‘Leadership for Responsible Urban Digital Innovation’ is designed to expose participants to the knowledge needed to address competency-related challenges for the successful delivery of public value thro…

This year’s CSIC Partner Summer Party featured short presentations by researchers showcasing a range of CSIC projects. The four-minute presentations are now available to view on the CSIC YouTube channel.CSIC was delighted to welcome colleagues from industry and other partner organisations to the in-person Summer Partner Party held at Darwin College…

A new CSIC short film presents the Centre’s vision and work to transform infrastructure through smarter information.CSIC’s film introduces the collaborative work of the Centre that values data to support better decisions to deliver a safe, more sustainable, economically equitable and resilient infrastructure system – that enables people and the pla…

Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong has received a grant from the Energy Interdisciplinary Research Centre for a policy-driven collaborative project to guide the delivery of low carbon emissions infrastructure projects in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).Working with Dr Rehema Msulwa, a Research Associate at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, and a contributor to …

Members of the CSIC leadership team, International Advisory Group (IAG) and research team featured at the 11th International Symposium on Field Monitoring in Geomechanics (ISFMG 2022), held at Imperial College London in September.  The Symposium brings together people from across the geotechnical monitoring sector to promote better understanding, i…

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog, by Dr Heleni Pantelidou, Associate Director at Arup, civil engineer and champion of sustainable development and decarbonisation of the built environment, calls for new market mechanisms to enable reversing built environment degradation to reduce carbon, increase resilience and sustain human health and wellbei…

The refreshed UK Government Construction Playbook published this week includes the CSIC-hosted Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment.The update to the Construction Playbook, which sets out key policies and guidance for how public works projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered, was published on 5 September. Chapter thre…

An article by CSIC Investigator Dr Kristen MacAskill highlighting the importance of resilience in decision-making for our critical infrastructure systems has been published in the industry publication Infrastructure Intelligence.Dr MacAskill, and Assistant Professor in Engineering, Environment and Sustainable Development at the University of Cambri…

Read the second in our series of Smart Infrastructure Blogs highlighting the themes and pressing policy challenges discussed at the recent Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) hosted UK-US workshop ‘Funding, Financing & Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure to Improve Resilien…