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Chief Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Engineering and CSIC Academic Director, Professor Mark Girolami has been interviewed for the Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast from the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.This podcast shines a light on the topic of digital twins and the emergence of AI as technolo…

The latest in CSIC’s monthly series of Smart Infrastructure blogs shines a light on smart urban farming.The blog, titled ‘Where does your garden grow – can smart urban farming feed growing cities?’, presents a collaborative live project that places data and physics front and centre to help an underground urban farm grow smart.   Cities are growing …

The Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning appointed by the House of Lords included Professor Lord Robert Mair, Founding Head of CSIC, who cited the report and response during his opening address at the CSIC Partner Strategy Day on Friday 18 March.The Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning was appointed by the House of…

Today, 15 March 2022, the first organisations to sign-up to the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, which is hosted by the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, at the University of Cambridge, have been announced. The Code is a commitment scheme designed to facilitate action and collaboration in the built environment toward…

A new book co-authored by CSIC Investigator Dr John Orr explains why overdesign is so prevalent and its impact on material consumption and carbon emissions.Published by the Institution of Structural Engineers and titled ‘Design for Zero’, the guidance is presented in three parts and covers the design process, through to fabrication, assembly, use, …

Supporting the national drive to inspire more women to build careers in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), CSIC features a series of interviews to showcase the talent and diversity of women working in science and engineering. To mark International Women’s Day 2022, CSIC Research Associate, Digital Cities for Change (DC2),Viviana Bas…

A presentation by CSIC Research Associate, Dr Manu Sasidharan, highlights the need for asset management priority risk analysis models to increase the resilience of rail networks facing increased flooding resulting from climate change.The presentation was part of the final workshop of the EU Horizon Funded SAFEWAY project, a GIS-based infrastructure…

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog calls for planners to re-establish roles for the digital age. Written by CSIC Investigator, Dr Li Wan, Assistant Professor at the Department of Land Economy, the Blog, titled 'Levelling up without planning – a wake-up call for planners', has also been featured as an Opinion article published by New Civil Engin…

CSIC is presenting two events as part of the Cambridge Festival programme that offers a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. Why infrastructure matters and how data helps us to deliver better services from infrastructureDr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSI…

The CSIC-supported project Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN), which aims to change the way concrete is used in buildings to decarbonise construction, features in the RIBA Journal, published by the Royal Institute of British Architects, in an article titled ‘Thin vaulted floor slab could slash embodied carbon by 60%’.ACORN, which is a collabo…

Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, is among the prestigious line-up of speakers featuring in the online 2022 Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series at University of California, Berkeley.The Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series explores ideas around the topic of engineering resilient, sustainable and equitable infrastructure. The Series is co-spon…

Read this month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog by Professor Kenichi Soga, one of the founders of CSIC and currently Donald H. McLaughlin Professor at the University of California, Berkeley sets out the ambitions of the new Center for Smart Infrastructure in California. The blog titled ‘Smart move – the Center for Smart Infrastructure at University of …

CSIC Investigators talk making urban life more sustainable and building cardon neutral cities.A feature in the latest issue of the Cambridge Alumni Magazine (CAM) features CSIC Investigators talking about the benefits of applying data cohesively to better understand our infrastructure and retrofitting buildings to promote spatial energy optimism.Ti…

A new and collaborative initiative, Digital Roads of the Future, will explore how digital twins, smart materials, data science and robotic monitoring can work together to develop a connected physical and digital road infrastructure system.A collaboration between the University of Cambridge, Costain, and National Highways, Digital Roads of the Futur…

Professor Mark Girolami, CSIC Academic Director, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Chief Scientist at The Alan Turing Institute features in the January issue of Civil Engineering Surveyor (CES) – the monthly journal of the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors, a CSIC partner.The interview sh…