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A new CSIC short film featuring NRFIS presents the Centre’s vision and work to transform infrastructure through smarter information.The Cambridge’s Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) film introduces the collaborative work of the Centre that values data to support better decisions to deliver a safe, more sustainable, economicall…

Photo: Civil Engineering Building, Cambridge  © Paul Raftery (rafphoto.com)The Civil Engineering Building housing NRFIS is among 17 buildings to win the RIBA 2022 East Award from the Royal Institute of British Architects, in recognition of its architectural merit.The building offers a world-class research space and is home to the Department of Engi…

The Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at the University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint an ‘Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel’ (ECAPP).The purposes of ECAPP are:To increase the diversity of views that are considered in CSIC’s strategic decision making.To strengthen connections between CSIC, its industry partner…

Register now for the 10th International Symposium on Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground to be held at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, from 27 to 29 June 2022.The International Symposium, which is hosted by the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, attracts the community of world-leading g…

                  The UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) is hosting a one-day in-person event on 17 May to showcase how UKCRIC’s national network of experimental facilities can support research and development (R&D) ambitions to enable safe, resilient and sustainable living and generate economic opportunities for …

We are delighted to announce that at last week's Greater Cambridge Design and Construction Awards, the Civil Engineering Building housing NRFIS picked up the David Mackay Award for Engineering and Sustainability.The judges commented that, “The Civil Engineering Building demonstrates the result of integrating engineering rigour into the design proce…

The NRFIS-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 colla…

Out of an original 48 entries in the east of England, the University of Cambridge Civil Engineering Building is one of 22 building projects to be considered for the RIBA 2022 Regional award, with the winners to be announced in early May.The building offers a world-class research space and is home to the Department of Engineering's Civil Engineering…

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…

As part of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) 10-year anniversary events held last month, CSIC Research Associates Dr Miguel Bravo-Haro and Dr Nicky de Battista hosted an online workshop inviting attendees to ‘virtually’ visit the Civil Engineering Building – home to CSIC and NRFIS.Visitors were able to to see how smart inf…

An article exploring how digital twins are transforming engineering spotlights a number of pioneering CSIC projectsCharting the emergence and development of digital twins in engineering, the article titled ‘Creating a Virtual Replica’, and published in the June issue of Ingenia, the magazine of the Royal Academy of Engineering, features interviews …

The University of Cambridge, through its Schofield Centre and NRFIS, have received European Union funding to support the integration and advancement of innovative cutting-edge infrastructure research across Europe.The existing European infrastructure is facing major challenges. The impact of climate change, extreme weather, geo-hazards, aging and i…

CSIC 10th Anniversary3 June – 13 July 2021This year, the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) is celebrating 10 years of collaborating to transform infrastructure and construction through smarter information. This vision is as relevant today as it was at the Centre’s launch 10 years ago. An Innovation and Knowledge Cent…

On Thursday 29 April, the University of Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) hosted an online workshop for UKCRIC academics and researchers to explore the challenges and research opportunities around digitalisation in the built environment.Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC welcomed delegates and Professor Mark Gir…

Using the resources available at the UKCRIC NRFIS, the University of Cambridge Concrete Infrastructure Research Group has been investigating how to optimise cement use in reinforced concrete structures by varying the concrete mix design within elements. Creating spatially variable mechanical properties reduces traditionally conservative coverage of…