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CSIC’s collaborative project to create two of the UK’s first ever smart bridges is featured on the Transforming Construction story catalogue that showcases innovations that are changing UK construction. The article titled ‘Smart Bridges – fibre optics that give remote and real-time assessment of structural health’ shines a light on CSIC’s Staffords…

The CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog series welcomes 2022 with a blog by Dr Sam Cocking, CSIC Research Associate and member of the UK National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) Young Professionals Panel (YPP).Titled ‘Perspectives on the future of civil engineering and smart infrastructure: net zero, maximising societal benefits and diversity’, the blog…

An article presenting the CSIC Line of Sight Methodology that sets out a new approach to provide organisations with a line of sight between assets and organisational objectives to enable better outcomes, has been featured in industry publication Infrastructure Intelligence.The article is co-written by CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling and Impact …

The latest Smart Infrastructure Blog, published today, 1 December, is written by Ann Allen, Chief Executive Officer at the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors (CICES), who sets out three challenges to ensure that advances in technology and digital transformation bring opportunities throughout the construction sector.In the blog tit…

The CSIC-convened Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment is included as a key policy recommendation in the Pathway to Net Zero for the UK Built Environment which was launched by the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) on 11 November, at the main COP26 venue on COP’s dedicated day for cities and the built environment.The Code, which has now o…

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog announces the sign-up process for the Carbon Reduction Code – and calls for organisations to pledge commitment.  The Blog, titled ‘Committing to make a difference – sign-up to the Carbon Reduction Code’, written by CSIC Programme Manager Dee Dee Frawley,is published in the same month that marks COP26 bringing …

Today, Monday 1 November 2021, as COP26 brings together nations and representatives tosecure the world-wide solidarity needed to make the required commitment to address climate change, marks the launch of the sign-up process to the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment that offers organisations a collaborative and supportive approach to r…

CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling and CSIC Postdoctoral Researcher and member of the UK National Infrastructure Commission’s Young Professionals Panel, Sam Cocking, are part of two Build Better Now online events at the COP26 Built Environment Virtual Pavilion coordinated by the UK Green Building Council. Hosted by the UK in Glasgow, COP26 runs fr…

An article marking the approach of COP 26 published in Raconteur explores the topic of sustainable infrastructure and features comment by CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling as well as Sir John Armitt, Chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission, Jim Hall, Professor of Climate and Environmental Risks at the University of Oxford, who delivere…

Presenting the inaugural Distinguished Lecture for the Center for Infrastructure Resilience in Cities as Liveable Environments (CIRCLE), Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, made the case for better use of data to support resilient infrastructure and associated services to enable societies and communities to be healthy, economically viable and …

CSIC was delighted to welcome partners and researchers to an in-person Partner Party that also marked the end of a series of events celebrating 10 years of CSIC.The late summer party, which was held at Homerton College, Cambridge, on 21 September 2021, was attended by a number of representatives from partner organisations and CSIC researchers, who …

This month’s Smart Infrastructure Blog is by CSIC Academic Director and the Turing’s inaugural Chief Scientist Professor Mark Girolami, who makes the case for data-driven insights and collaboration with industry to enable actionable insights to meet the scientific and societal challenges our critical infrastructure faces. Titled ‘Making the future:…

Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at the University of Cambridge, and Academic Director for CSIC, has been appointed Chief Scientist at the Turing.The newly created role comes at a significant moment for UK science and technology following the government’s recentl…

Dr Manu Sasidharan, CSIC Research Associate, appears in the UK5G Innovation Network’s latest post entitled ‘Faces of 5G’, which introduces the people working on the Port of Felixstowe’s project.The Port of Felixstowe is an important national infrastructure that needs to operate 365 days a year, 24/7. The project, funded by the UK’s  Department for …

An article on The Alan Turing Institute’s website features an interview with the lead of the Data Centric Engineering (DCE) programme, Prof Mark Girolami, Academic Director of CSIC, who references CSIC as a project partner of the Turing. The DCE programme, launched in 2015 in partnership with the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, has created projects al…