CSIC Membership Benefits
Benefits - CSIC and Members in collaboration with suppliers in the value chain will:
• Bridge ‘digital’ and ‘civil’ engineering silos
- Accelerate the application of IOT and digitalisation in infrastructure and construction as the norm
- Promote and enable the transition to data-enabled businesses which collect, analyse and extract value from data across their entire organisation
- Enable value-based delivery models that provide a sustainable return to the industry while creating improved value for clients and customers
• Set the trajectory of future thinking for the industry
- Convene, connect and coordinate strategy and industry-wide roadmaps
- Produce thought leadership around future technology needs, and using data and digital solutions in the industry to meet Sustainable Development Goals objectives
• Be a voice for the industry
- Provide joint responses – what is needed, what’s missing etc.
• Learn as a sector and address the challenges of scaling solutions
- Work collaboratively to demonstrate the ROI of data-centric solutions and support testing/pilot activities to evidence viability and scalability
- Collaborate on success measures to enable scaling
- Work together to explore industry-wide initiatives such as open data trusts, open standards, data sharing systems, with clients bringing their data/insights to table
- Convene groups with mutual interests including client groups to promote consistency in data management requirements for the supply chain
- Work with insurers and policy makers to lessen the impact risk has on stifling innovation
• Continue pushing the boundaries
- Develop joint research proposals focused on the identified interests and needs of the members
- Provide recruitment opportunities and promote learning and development of early career staff
What do members get?:
• A potent accelerator that will deliver competitive advantage and drive the value of the business
• A significantly greater level of influence enabling the industry and its clients to be guided towards a better balance of sustainable revenue and customer benefit
• A justifiable claim to being at the cutting edge in research, exposed to the latest developments, and be able to field the results
• A reputation for collaboration in the most challenging context and be able to translate that into biddable solutions for new work
Additionally, member organisations will have:
• A place on the CSIC Steering Group
• Influence in the development of roundtables and workshops including the CSIC Strategy Day
• Development of, and contribution to, thought leadership papers
• Ability to influence and direct the CSIC research roadmap for cyber-physical research
• Early access to reports, papers, research outputs
• Ability to second staff to CSIC for up to a year (this may involve additional cost)
• Opportunity to contribute and formally link to active CSIC projects (through sponsorship etc)
For more information contact: csic-admin@eng.cam.ac.uk.