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In the latest of CSIC's monthly Smart Infrastructure Blogs, Dr Miguel Bravo Haro, CSIC Research Associate, brings focus to sensors, measurement and particularly to conventions.Reflecting on a number of 18th Century explanations of what took place during an earthquake and tsunami in Lisbon in 1755, Dr Bravo Haro tracks the early development of data …

The occurrence of sinkholes during construction can have devastating consequences.  The development of an early warning system to predict the early formation of sinkholes before they cause property damage or even loss of life would be of huge benefit to the infrastructure and construction industry.     Photo: Testing with the LUNA ODiSl in progress…

Image: NRFIS robotic arms with lifting capacity of 200kg and reach of 2.8m installed onto the strong floor at the UKCRIC National Facility for Infrastructure SensingThe widespread use of flat panel formwork for concrete leads to materially inefficient prismatic shapes for the beams, columns, and floor-slabs in our buildings. This practice, which ha…

PhD Student Maciej Trzeciak, working under the supervision of Dr Ioannis Brilakis is devising an AI-based mobile scanner to digitise the geometry of existing infrastructure assets with high accuracy and density over longer distances. Top cameras and laser sensors funded by NRFIS are helping to achieve this goal.Image: AI-based 3D reconstruction fro…

Five short presentations on current CSIC research projects are available to view on the CSIC YouTube channel.The presentations, listed below, were recorded during CSIC’s virtual Partner Gathering event held on the 24 September 2020. They are each followed by a Q&A session chaired by Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC and Dr Jennifer Schooling…

'Collaborative action will be crucial to securing the changes required to reach net zero by 2050'Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and UKCRIC Champion and Thought Leader, calls for collaborative sector action to build a data-driven, low-carbon and low-waste future. To measur…

CSIC is launching a new series of short, discussion-inviting articles – the Smart Infrastructure Blog. The informative and thought-provoking blogs will be written by members of the CSIC team, partners and industry experts to showcase opinions and ideas from the forefront of smart infrastructure and construction.The Smart Infrastructure Blog will fe…

Geotechnical Engineering Student Marisa Contrafatto is working with Professor Giulia Viggiani to characterise the behaviour of partly saturated expansive clays at small strain using the suction-controlled Resonant Column/Torsion Shear (RCTS) apparatus recently installed in the NRFIS Geomechanics Laboratory.WindAfrica is a £1.27M GCRF project which …

On 11th December, the Civil Engineering and National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS) Support Team was awarded the University of Cambridge Professional Services Recognition Award. The annual scheme is open to all administrative staff across the University whose work supports research, teaching and scholarship. It celebrates the …

Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), and Dr Pieter Desnerck, Senior Technical Manager at the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS), hosted a delegation visit from the Qatari Department for Infrastructure and Planning (Ministry of Municipality and Environment of the S…

Academics and researchers from the Department of Engineering welcomed The Duke of York when he visited the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS) at the new Civil Engineering Building, on the West Site of the University of Cambridge, on 29 October.The Duke …

Representatives from industry, academia and policy attended the official opening of the new Civil Engineering Building on Tuesday 24 September. The £36 million collaborative space for the civil engineering industry to work alongside leading researchers from the University incorporates the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure and Cities…