CSIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre Phase 2
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Engineering
Abstract
Globally, national infrastructure is facing significant challenges:
- Ageing assets: Much of the UK's existing infrastructure is old and no longer fit for purpose. In its State of the Nation Infrastructure 2014 report the Institution of Civil Engineers stated that none of the sectors analysed were "fit for the future" and only one sector was "adequate for now". The need to future-proof existing and new infrastructure is of paramount importance and has become a constant theme in industry documents, seminars, workshops and discussions.
- Increased loading: Existing infrastructure is challenged by the need to increase load and usage - be that number of passengers carried, numbers of vehicles or volume of water used - and the requirement to maintain the existing infrastructure while operating at current capacity.
- Changing climate: projections for increasing numbers and severity of extreme weather events mean that our infrastructure will need to be more resilient in the future.
These challenges require innovation to address them. However, in the infrastructure and construction industries tight operating margins, industry segmentation and strong emphasis on safety and reliability create barriers to introducing innovation into industry practice.
CSIC is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre funded by EPSRC and Innovate UK to help address this market failure, by translating world leading research into industry implementation, working with more than 40 industry partners to develop, trial, provide and deliver high-quality, low cost, accurate sensor technologies and predictive tools which enable new ways of monitoring how infrastructure behaves during construction and asset operation, providing a whole-life approach to achieving sustainability in an integrated way. It provides training and access for industry to source, develop and deliver these new approaches to stimulate business and encourage economic growth, improving the management of the nation's infrastructure and construction industry.
Our collaborative approach, bringing together leaders from industry and academia, accelerates the commercial development of emerging technologies, and promotes knowledge transfer and industry implementation to shape the future of infrastructure.
Phase 2 funding will enable CSIC to address specific challenges remaining to implementation of smart infrastructure solutions.
Over the next five years, to overcome these barriers and create a self-sustaining market in smart infrastructure, CSIC along with an expanded group of industry and academic partners will:
- Create the complete, innovative solutions that the sector needs by integrating the components of smart infrastructure into systems approaches, bringing together sensor data and asset management decisions to improve whole life management of assets and city scale infrastructure planning; spin-in technology where necessary, to allow demonstration of smart technology in an integrated manner.
- Continue to build industry confidence by working closely with partners to demonstrate and deploy new smart infrastructure solutions on live infrastructure projects. Develop projects on behalf of industry using seed-funds to fund hardware and consumables, and demonstrate capability.
- Generate a compelling business case for smart infrastructure solutions together with asset owners and government organisations based on combining smarter information with whole life value models for infrastructure assets. Focus on value-driven messaging around the whole system business case for why smart infrastructure is the future, and will strive to turn today's intangibles into business drivers for the future.
- Facilitate the development and expansion of the supply chain through extending our network of partners in new areas, knowledge transfer, smart infrastructure standards and influencing policy.
- Ageing assets: Much of the UK's existing infrastructure is old and no longer fit for purpose. In its State of the Nation Infrastructure 2014 report the Institution of Civil Engineers stated that none of the sectors analysed were "fit for the future" and only one sector was "adequate for now". The need to future-proof existing and new infrastructure is of paramount importance and has become a constant theme in industry documents, seminars, workshops and discussions.
- Increased loading: Existing infrastructure is challenged by the need to increase load and usage - be that number of passengers carried, numbers of vehicles or volume of water used - and the requirement to maintain the existing infrastructure while operating at current capacity.
- Changing climate: projections for increasing numbers and severity of extreme weather events mean that our infrastructure will need to be more resilient in the future.
These challenges require innovation to address them. However, in the infrastructure and construction industries tight operating margins, industry segmentation and strong emphasis on safety and reliability create barriers to introducing innovation into industry practice.
CSIC is an Innovation and Knowledge Centre funded by EPSRC and Innovate UK to help address this market failure, by translating world leading research into industry implementation, working with more than 40 industry partners to develop, trial, provide and deliver high-quality, low cost, accurate sensor technologies and predictive tools which enable new ways of monitoring how infrastructure behaves during construction and asset operation, providing a whole-life approach to achieving sustainability in an integrated way. It provides training and access for industry to source, develop and deliver these new approaches to stimulate business and encourage economic growth, improving the management of the nation's infrastructure and construction industry.
Our collaborative approach, bringing together leaders from industry and academia, accelerates the commercial development of emerging technologies, and promotes knowledge transfer and industry implementation to shape the future of infrastructure.
Phase 2 funding will enable CSIC to address specific challenges remaining to implementation of smart infrastructure solutions.
Over the next five years, to overcome these barriers and create a self-sustaining market in smart infrastructure, CSIC along with an expanded group of industry and academic partners will:
- Create the complete, innovative solutions that the sector needs by integrating the components of smart infrastructure into systems approaches, bringing together sensor data and asset management decisions to improve whole life management of assets and city scale infrastructure planning; spin-in technology where necessary, to allow demonstration of smart technology in an integrated manner.
- Continue to build industry confidence by working closely with partners to demonstrate and deploy new smart infrastructure solutions on live infrastructure projects. Develop projects on behalf of industry using seed-funds to fund hardware and consumables, and demonstrate capability.
- Generate a compelling business case for smart infrastructure solutions together with asset owners and government organisations based on combining smarter information with whole life value models for infrastructure assets. Focus on value-driven messaging around the whole system business case for why smart infrastructure is the future, and will strive to turn today's intangibles into business drivers for the future.
- Facilitate the development and expansion of the supply chain through extending our network of partners in new areas, knowledge transfer, smart infrastructure standards and influencing policy.
Planned Impact
The UK is well placed to lead the smart infrastructure revolution, and investment in CSIC's programme to develop and demonstrate innovative, integrated solutions will provide a step change in the UK's capability to deliver solutions which are globally competitive.
CSIC Phase 2 funding will deliver a wide range of impacts in the UK and globally, through addressing the challenges to implementation of smart infrastructure solutions in an industry where innovation is challenging. These impacts can be summarised as follows:
Industry benefits:
CSIC's work will impact through transforming the capability of the industry to deliver smart infrastructure solutions:
- Increased industry confidence to implement smart infrastructure solutions through deployment of technologies and demonstration of their benefits, working with our network of more than 40 industry partners
- Increased industry capability to deliver smart infrastructure solutions through support in developing solutions and services from innovative technologies and solutions - for example current work with Skanska on developing a fibre optic monitoring service, which is projected to deliver a turnover of £1M in its first year
- New business opportunities, generated through networking between industry partners and exploring the potential for application of novel technologies in the infrastructure and construction industries
- Raised industry awareness and confidence in smart infrastructure solutions through training and knowledge transfer, using training courses, secondments, industry-focussed best practice guides and case studies CSIC will transfer knowledge to the infrastructure and construction industries to raise awareness and acceptance of smart infrastructure
- Development of complete smart infrastructure solutions, and the standards required to specify them
Policy makers:
- Insights into the benefits of smart infrastructure solutions, and guidance on what policy or regulation may be required to create the environment for industry uptake
- Development of a 'smart infrastructure standards' roadmap, in collaboration with BSI
Benefits to the public and wider society:
- Widespread uptake in industry of smart infrastructure solutions will result in more reliable infrastructure provision, with better performance and reduced whole life costs alongside increased whole life value. Services will be responsive to user needs and resilient to shocks, returning rapidly to service from interruptions due to events such as severe weather
- The programme will also feed into undergraduate and masters level education, producing the next generation of engineers who will be well-placed to work in the smart infrastructure industry and deliver these solutions
CSIC Phase 2 funding will deliver a wide range of impacts in the UK and globally, through addressing the challenges to implementation of smart infrastructure solutions in an industry where innovation is challenging. These impacts can be summarised as follows:
Industry benefits:
CSIC's work will impact through transforming the capability of the industry to deliver smart infrastructure solutions:
- Increased industry confidence to implement smart infrastructure solutions through deployment of technologies and demonstration of their benefits, working with our network of more than 40 industry partners
- Increased industry capability to deliver smart infrastructure solutions through support in developing solutions and services from innovative technologies and solutions - for example current work with Skanska on developing a fibre optic monitoring service, which is projected to deliver a turnover of £1M in its first year
- New business opportunities, generated through networking between industry partners and exploring the potential for application of novel technologies in the infrastructure and construction industries
- Raised industry awareness and confidence in smart infrastructure solutions through training and knowledge transfer, using training courses, secondments, industry-focussed best practice guides and case studies CSIC will transfer knowledge to the infrastructure and construction industries to raise awareness and acceptance of smart infrastructure
- Development of complete smart infrastructure solutions, and the standards required to specify them
Policy makers:
- Insights into the benefits of smart infrastructure solutions, and guidance on what policy or regulation may be required to create the environment for industry uptake
- Development of a 'smart infrastructure standards' roadmap, in collaboration with BSI
Benefits to the public and wider society:
- Widespread uptake in industry of smart infrastructure solutions will result in more reliable infrastructure provision, with better performance and reduced whole life costs alongside increased whole life value. Services will be responsive to user needs and resilient to shocks, returning rapidly to service from interruptions due to events such as severe weather
- The programme will also feed into undergraduate and masters level education, producing the next generation of engineers who will be well-placed to work in the smart infrastructure industry and deliver these solutions
Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation)
- Blue Mesh Solutions (Collaboration)
- BP (British Petroleum) (Collaboration)
- Thames Water Utilities Limited (Collaboration)
- Humber Bridge Board (Collaboration)
- Huesker (Collaboration)
- University of Wollongong (Collaboration)
- EM - Solutions (Collaboration)
- Aqua cleansing (Collaboration)
- AECOM Technology Corporation (Collaboration)
- University of California, Berkeley (Collaboration)
- Imetrum (Collaboration)
- Geocisa UK (Collaboration)
- Myriad Heat and Power Products Ltd (Collaboration)
- Cura Analytica (Collaboration)
- Jones & Wagener (Collaboration)
- Laing O'Rourke (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Femtofibertec (Collaboration)
- Royal HaskoningDHV (Collaboration)
- Kier Group (Collaboration)
- FEBUS Optics (Collaboration)
- Hertfordshire Sports Village (Collaboration)
- Tallinn University of Technology (Collaboration)
- Metro Dynamics (Collaboration)
- Splicetec AG (Collaboration)
- Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society (Collaboration)
- Ferrovial Agroman (Collaboration)
- CH2M HILL (Collaboration)
- Chung-Ang University (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD (Collaboration)
- University of Tokyo (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Alan Turing Institute (Collaboration)
- Sylex (Collaboration)
- Severn Trent Water (Collaboration)
- Tony GEE Consultants (Collaboration)
- Bentley Systems UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA (Collaboration)
- ArcelorMittal (Collaboration)
- Diemount GmbH (Collaboration)
- National Instruments Corp (UK) Ltd (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Collaboration)
- Brookfield (Collaboration)
- Mistras Group Ltd (Collaboration)
- Arup Group (Collaboration)
- Sintela (Collaboration)
- University of Sydney (Collaboration)
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (Collaboration)
- Jacobs Engineering Group (Collaboration)
- Parliament of UK (Collaboration)
- University of Vigo (Collaboration)
- Smith and Wallwork (Collaboration)
- GE Aviation Systems (Collaboration)
- Tensar International Ltd (Collaboration)
- Costain Group (Collaboration)
- Department of Transport (Collaboration)
- Central Alliance (Collaboration)
- Multiplex Construction (Collaboration)
- Keller Ltd (Collaboration)
- African Union Development Agency (Collaboration)
- National Grid UK (Collaboration)
- Innovate UK (Collaboration)
- Southbank Centre (Collaboration)
- IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON (Collaboration)
- Growing Underground (Collaboration)
- FBGS (Collaboration)
- Beijing Information Science & Technology University (Collaboration)
- Centro plc (Collaboration)
- Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (Collaboration)
- INSITU Engineering (Collaboration)
- COWI A/S (Collaboration)
- Cornell University (Collaboration)
- Innovactory (Collaboration)
- High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd (Collaboration)
- Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd (Collaboration)
- Qualisflow (Collaboration)
- Bechtel Corporation (Collaboration)
- University of Naples (Collaboration)
- Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) (Collaboration)
- Counterest (Collaboration)
- FDH Infrastructure Services (Collaboration)
- Herefordshire Council (Collaboration)
- BuroHappold Engineering (Collaboration)
- DEMO Consultants (Collaboration)
- University of Sheffield (Collaboration)
- Mott Macdonald UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- University of Bath (Collaboration)
- Keltbray (Collaboration)
- Mouchel (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Trimble Inc. (Collaboration)
- Satellite Applications Catapult (Collaboration)
- UTTERBERRY LTD (Collaboration)
- Three UK (Collaboration)
- LDA Design (Collaboration)
- Peter Brett Associates (Collaboration)
- Transport for West Midlands (Collaboration)
- European Federation of Foundation Contractors (Collaboration)
- Anglian Water Services (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (Collaboration)
- Gwynedd Council (Collaboration)
- Crossrail (Collaboration)
- ITM Soil (Collaboration)
- University of Dundee (Collaboration)
- McLaren Racing (Collaboration)
- HERTFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL (Collaboration)
- Ericsson (Collaboration)
- British Geological Survey (Collaboration)
- Digital Built Britain (Collaboration)
- National University of Singapore (Collaboration)
- Bentley Motors (Collaboration)
- Infraestruturas de Portugal (Collaboration)
- BAM NUTTALL (Collaboration)
- Sengenia Ltd (Collaboration)
- University of Dar es Salaam (Collaboration)
- Geobear (Collaboration)
- Improbable (Collaboration)
- Dragados (Collaboration)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Planetek Italia (Collaboration)
- Senceive (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- DURHAM UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- Ove Arup Foundation (Collaboration)
- Parsons Bakery (Collaboration)
- UK Government Investments (Collaboration)
- BKwai (Collaboration)
- Atkins (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- Historic England (Collaboration)
- WSP Group plc (Collaboration)
- Skanska UK Ltd (Collaboration)
- Gammon Construction Limited (Collaboration)
- Geosense (Collaboration)
- McLaren Applied Technologies (Collaboration)
- Network Rail (Collaboration)
- Optasense (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- University of Khartoum (Collaboration)
- CAM DRAGON (Collaboration)
- Noztek (Collaboration)
- Arcadis NV (Collaboration)
- McKinsey & Company (Collaboration)
- Topcon (Collaboration)
- Transport for London (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- University of Minho (Collaboration)
- RedBite Solutions (Collaboration)
- 8 Power Ltd (Collaboration)
- Siemens AG (Collaboration)
- Epsimon (Collaboration)
- Silicon Microgravity Ltd. (Collaboration)
- Cambridgeshire County Council (Collaboration)
- E G Technology (Collaboration)
- Skanska AB (Collaboration)
- American International Group (United States) (Project Partner)
- Carillion Plc (Project Partner)
- Cementation Skanska Limited (Project Partner)
- McLaren Automotive Ltd (Project Partner)
- Arup Group (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Geothermal International Ltd (Project Partner)
- Highways England (Project Partner)
- Rolatube Technology (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- WSP Civils (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- RedBite (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- General Electric (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Project Partner)
- Sengenia (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Mott Macdonald (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- National Physical Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Future Cities Catapult (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Transport Systems Catapult (Project Partner)
- University College London (Project Partner)
- Mabey Holdings Limited (Project Partner)
- Omnisense (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Jacobs (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Finmeccanica (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Costain (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Environmental Scientifics Group (Project Partner)
- Tongji University (Project Partner)
- Construction Industry Research and Information Association (Project Partner)
- Socotec (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- BuroHappold (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Department for Transport (Project Partner)
- University of Oxford (Project Partner)
- EDF Energy (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Thales (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Topcon (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Toshiba (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Heriot-Watt University (Project Partner)
- Cambridgeshire County Council (Project Partner)
- Centro Public Transport (Project Partner)
Publications
Franza A
(2020)
Continuum solutions for tunnel-building interaction and a modified framework for deformation prediction
in Géotechnique
Franza A
(2019)
Empirical and semi-analytical methods for evaluating tunnelling-induced ground movements in sands
in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
Franza A
(2018)
Discussion of "A cantilever approach to estimate bending stiffness of buildings affected by tunnelling" by Twana Kamal Haji, Alec M. Marshall, and Walid Tizani
in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
Franza A
(2019)
Greenfield tunnelling in sands: the effects of soil density and relative depth
in Géotechnique
Franza A
(2019)
Centrifuge and Real-Time Hybrid Testing of Tunneling beneath Piles and Piled Buildings
in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Franza A
(2020)
Timoshenko beam models for the coupled analysis of building response to tunnelling
in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
Franza A
(2019)
Elastoplastic Solutions to Predict Tunneling-Induced Load Redistribution and Deformation of Surface Structures
in Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering
Ganesan A
(2019)
Resonance tracking in a micromechanical device using phononic frequency combs.
in Scientific reports
Giardina G
(2020)
Effect of soil models on the prediction of tunnelling-induced deformations of structures
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Geotechnical Engineering
Giardina G
(2018)
Evaluation of InSAR monitoring data for post-tunnelling settlement damage assessment
in Structural Control and Health Monitoring
Giovine P
(2019)
Progress in mechanics of soils and general granular flows: preface
in Meccanica
Gong C
(2019)
Failure mechanism of joint waterproofing in precast segmental tunnel linings
in Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology
Gregory A
(2019)
The synthesis of data from instrumented structures and physics-based models via Gaussian processes
in Journal of Computational Physics
Gue C
(2019)
Development of a three-dimensional staged volume loss tunnelling method in the centrifuge
in International Journal of Physical Modelling in Geotechnics
Gue C
(2017)
Tunnelling close beneath an existing tunnel in clay - perpendicular undercrossing
in Géotechnique
Guida G
(2019)
Multi-scale morphological descriptors from the fractal analysis of particle contour
in Acta Geotechnica
Gürdür Broo D
(2022)
Design and implementation of a smart infrastructure digital twin
in Automation in Construction
Hadjidemetriou G
(2020)
Comprehensive Decision Support System for Managing Asphalt Pavements
in Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Hadjidemetriou G
(2021)
Road Network Layout Planning based on Evaluation of Connectivity and Asset Criticality
Hadjidemetriou G
(2021)
Condition and criticality-based predictive maintenance prioritisation for networks of bridges
in Structure and Infrastructure Engineering
Hadjidemetriou G
(2019)
Vision- and Entropy-Based Detection of Distressed Areas for Integrated Pavement Condition Assessment
in Journal of Computing in Civil Engineering
Hadjidemetriou G
(2022)
Supporting Organisation Objectives in Infrastructure Projects via the Line-of-Sight Methodology
Hadjidemetriou G
(2022)
Flexible Planning for Intercity Multimodal Transport Infrastructure
in Journal of Infrastructure Systems
Hadjidemetriou G
(2019)
Pavement condition and traffic indices for prioritizing road maintenance
Hadjidemetriou G
(2019)
Picture Passwords in Mixed Reality
Hadjidemetriou G
(2022)
Planning road network layout based on connectivity assessment of critical assets
in Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction
Hadjidemetriou GM
(2020)
The impact of government measures and human mobility trend on COVID-19 related deaths in the UK.
in Transportation research interdisciplinary perspectives
Hardy S
(2018)
New observational method framework for embedded walls
in Geotechnical Research
Hardy, S.
(2017)
New observational method framework and application
Hawkins W
(2019)
Design, Construction and Testing of a Low Carbon Thin-Shell Concrete Flooring System
in Structures
Hawkins W
(2020)
A design methodology to reduce the embodied carbon of concrete buildings using thin-shell floors
in Engineering Structures
Hawkridge G
(2020)
Towards Shoestring Solutions for UK Manufacturing SMEs
He X
(2020)
Quantifying physical transport and local proliferation of phytoplankton downstream of an eutrophicated lake
in Journal of Hydrology
Heaton J
(2019)
BIM as an Enabler for Digital Transformation
Heaton J
(2019)
Design and development of BIM models to support operations and maintenance
in Computers in Industry
Heaton J
(2020)
Asset Information Model to support the adoption of a Digital Twin: West Cambridge case study
in IFAC-PapersOnLine
Heaton J
(2019)
A Building Information Modelling approach to the alignment of organisational objectives to Asset Information Requirements
in Automation in Construction
Herrera M
(2020)
Multi-Agent Systems and Complex Networks: Review and Applications in Systems Engineering
in Processes
| Title | "Mixed Reality for Infrastructure " |
| Description | Video on Cambridge University's youtube channel by Brilakis, I., Huethwohl, P. and Kopsida, M. |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Over 26,000 views (top 10 out of 98 videos in this channel in past year) |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmqBE4OA_xM&list=PL7NVHs7Y_TuIq7ViNahxYJnLz-_BMfjrS |
| Title | CSIC 2022: Data, performance, decision-making |
| Description | This short film introduces the collaborative work of the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC). |
| Type Of Art | Film/Video/Animation |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | Wider reach than usual annual review |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHoDq45GBYM |
| Title | Four Futures, One Choice - Interactive Children's Book - Dr Didem Gürdür Broo |
| Description | A new book written during the COVID-19 pandemic and global climate crisis paints a picture of how the choices we make today are vital in shaping our future built environment world - and asks us all to decide what sort of society we want to live in. This is a vital moment in the global story, with many possible paths laid out ahead, but ultimately it is up to you to decide what you're going to do. What kind of future do you want to live in and what are you going to do to make it happen? Co-authored by CSIC and Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology Research Associate, Dr Didem Gürdür Broo, 'Four Futures, One Choice - Options for the Digital Built Britain of 2040' presents possible futures for the built environment to provide insight into how we can take swift and decisive actions to support a flourishing future and reduce our negative impact on the global environment. Developed by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) as part of the Construction Innovation Hub's transformative programme, the multi-disciplinary group of contributing authors are researchers at CDBB and includes: Kirsten Lamb, Richmond Juvenile Ehwi; Erika Parn, Antiopi Koronaki, Chara Makri and Thayla Zomer. 'Four Futures One Choice' brings focus to opportunities presented as we plan recovery from COVID-19, the role of data to support and enhance sustainability and equality, and the potential of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to shape the built environment world of the future. Highlighting four possible scenarios for 2040: A legacy of hope; Generation zero; Resigned to our fate; and Too little, too late; the book considers Britain's economy, society and environment to explore the influencing factors and trends involved in each scenario, and the complexities of the interconnecting systems that shape these dimensions. "While we can't guarantee, with any certainty, the outcomes our decisions as society, policy makers or decision-makers in the built environment will have, exploring future scenarios helps us identify the direction we would prefer and ultimately which way we should steer." |
| Type Of Art | Creative Writing |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Impact | Promoted at Cambridge Festival |
| URL | https://indd.adobe.com/view/792c83c3-3ae0-4e70-8690-9f307a3ff063 |
| Description | Work is currently in progress. A partial list of findings is below. A full report will be made available at the end of the award. Over the last ten years, CSIC has catalysed transformation in infrastructure and construction, working with partners to research, demonstrate and support implementation of smart solutions for the industry. The Centre has provided a platform for strong academia-industry collaboration. CSIC has changed the landscape in the UK construction industry through: developing sensing systems; working with industry partners to demonstrate their application in real infrastructure and construction environments; developing analysis tools to create insights from data; and working with policymakers and clients to create the case for investment in smart infrastructure solutions. This has included more sensing and analytics companies providing services to the industry, companies such as Skanska setting up their own sensing business, and HS2 specifying advanced monitoring solutions in tender documents. The overall goal of CSIC articulated in 2011 remains the same: "to transform approaches to the design, construction and use of complex infrastructure to facilitate a low-carbon society." There have been four spin-out companies formed as a result of the research funded by this award: 8Power, UtterBerry, Epsimon and BKwai; and a fibre-optic monitoring business at CSIC partner Skanska, CemOptics, developed from CSIC's fundamental research and an initial demonstration project. This system has been patented globally, and further development of the analysis approaches is ongoing funded by Skanska and Arup in collaboration. CSIC hosted 26 industry secondees for 3-12 month periods to co-develop industry-ready tools from our research. We provide training so industry operatives can readily use CSIC technology, including teams from CERN and contractors Geocisa, Multiplex, and BAM Nuttall. CSIC has developed a series of Best Practice and Technology Guides, published by ICE (Institution of Civil Engineers), to support the construction industry, infrastructure owners and operators, with over 760 guides sold. We provided input to the ICE Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls, for specifying the testing and instrumentation of foundations. CSIC and the ICE Asset Management Group produced ICE Guidance Document, Intelligent Assets for Tomorrow's Infrastructure: Guiding Principles. CSIC is actively delivering a number of inter-disciplinary projects including: a collaboration with the Turing designing and deploying long-term mixed sensor monitoring systems on assets to live stream data for high-level statistical analysis (including machine learning and artificial intelligence) in real time; Planning in 3D, optimising space and resources to absorb and repurpose waste energy flows for purposes such as urban agriculture; and Integrated Infrastructure Information, developing innovative ways to apply data for efficient whole-life asset management. CSIC has conducted more than 200 proof-of-concept or site demonstrations for major infrastructure projects including Crossrail, National Grid Power Tunnels, London Underground station upgrades, the Lee Tunnel Project, HS2. We are currently developing: solutions for HS2; embedded asset sensors for National Highways; monitoring protocols for integral bridges for National Highways; and long-term monitoring and data analysis solutions for Network Rail assets. And we are in discussions with Laing O'Rourke regarding monitoring solutions for small modular nuclear reactors. CSIC has published 43 deployment case studies, more than 140 trade articles and over 1,200 academic papers, with 5,800 citations. We have worked closely with our knowledge partners RICS, TRL, CIRIA and CICES. CSIC initiated a journal with the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), The Journal of Smart Infrastructure and Construction, and held steering group roles on two ICE State of the Nation Reports. CSIC has worked closely with industry to develop a robust supply chain capability, through direct engagement. This has included delivering numerous training courses and knowledge transfer events, secondments, and R&D projects. CSIC has worked with suppliers to deliver new technologies to meet industry needs, for example our collaboration with FEBUS Optics to create a dynamic infrastructure sensing system, with a successful first-of-a-kind deployment on a Network Rail project. Infrastructure digitalisation generates several potential areas of concern for responsible innovation, in particular: (mis)use of data including lack of attention to the socio-technical aspects of digital systems; security issues associated with data; unintended impacts of 'optimising' one element of a system without regard to the impact on other elements. CSIC addresses these in the following ways: 1. The DC2 project is investigating socio-technical aspects of city digital twins, including: data sufficiency; engaging the full range of stakeholders in decisions about purpose, use of data; governance of the digital system. The steering group includes city executives and social scientists. 2. CSIC has run two security events including input from CPNI for partners, staff and students. We assess security issues in our projects. 3. We encourage a 'system of systems' approach in our projects and industry outreach. This is fundamental to our whole-life asset management and city-systems work. In summary, over the last ten years CSIC has: • Attracted £17M of non-IKC funding • Entered into partnership agreements with 62 industry, public sector and learned bodies and collaborated or provided consultancy services for numerous others • Published over 1,200 journal papers • Hosted 7 international conferences • Delivered 178 proof-of-concept or site demonstrations • Hosted 26 industry secondees and 22 academic visitors • Generated 4 spinouts • Won 18 industry awards In addition, CSIC led the development of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment over the period 2020-2021, bringing together a committee of industry and academic experts to craft the code. The code was launched in November 2021 and now has 14 signatory organisations from the construction and infrastructure industries. It is cited in HMG's Construction Playbook 2022, Promoting Net Zero Carbon and Sustainability in Construction (Sept 2022) and the UKGBC Roadmap, and forms part of the Construction Leadership Council's Construct Zero programme. A full report of findings will be made available at the end of the award. However in the meantime further information can be found in Annual Reviews https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/newsletters |
| Exploitation Route | The engineering, management, maintenance and upgrading of infrastructure requires fresh thinking to minimise use of materials, energy and labour whilst still ensuring resilience. This can only be achieved by a full understanding of the performance of the infrastructure, both during its construction and throughout its design life, through the application of innovative sensor technologies and other emerging technologies. The key aim of CSIC is that emerging technologies from world-leading research at Cambridge will transform the construction industry through a whole-life approach to achieving sustainability in construction and infrastructure in an integrated way. This covers: • design and commissioning • the construction process • exploitation and use • eventual de-commissioning Crucial elements of these emerging technologies are the innovative application of the latest sensor technologies, data management tools, manufacturing processes and supply chain management processes to the construction industry, both during infrastructure construction and throughout its design life. The major objective of CSIC is to integrate these innovations for exploitation and knowledge transfer - something which is new to the UK construction and infrastructure industry. We believe that the outcome will be major transformations in the approaches to the design, construction and use of complex infrastructure leading to step changes in improved health and productivity; a low carbon society; sustainable urban planning and management. There will be a very substantial market for exploitation of these technologies by the construction industry - particularly contractors, specialist instrumentation companies and owners of infrastructure for both domestic and international markets. With our industry partners CSIC is pushing forward new frontiers of technology and innovative management in a sector of the economy which has traditionally had very little investment in research, particularly when compared to sectors such as computing or electronics. CSIC draws on recent research in new techniques, new models of construction and new management approaches. Through this innovation in technology and management, supported by extensive training and development, deep-rooted attitudes and assumptions are being challenged by CSIC with the aim of revolutionizing construction and the public perception of it. |
| Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Construction,Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Electronics,Energy,Environment,Healthcare,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy,Transport |
| URL | http://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Work is currently in progress on this grant, a full report will be made available nearer the end of the award. Additionally, due to the wide scope of CSIC activities, only the briefest description can be given here. For further information please see our CSIC Annual Reviews and at our website http://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/newsletters. Business benefits - As a result of the research in fibre optic sensing systems, Cementation Skanska plc have established a new business channel called CemOptics. During the grant period the technology has led to a reduction in the release of CO2 from projects, the installation of 100km of fibre optic cables, and has been used on a number of projects including the GBP1b Northern Line extension. Additionally, Network Rail have deployed the techniques for remote monitoring on 3 bridges, with savings estimated in the millions, and are making a significant investment in monitoring technologies. CSIC partner HS2 are specifying advanced monitoring solutions in many of their tender documents. This is on track to deliver huge benefits via prediction of damage and targeting maintenance. Transport for London (TfL) have saved GBP1m by avoiding unnecessary mitigation costs on one project, alerting staff of potential damage caused by new underground tunnel boring. Impact on industry practice - Technology based on the Cambridge research findings is embedded in Institution of Civil Engineering (ICE) Specification for Piling, and CSIC ICE best practice guides on structural monitoring, are used in many hundreds of organisations. CSIC have key roles on UK national infrastructure bodies driving policy and government investment plans for open information sharing. CSIC has had a real impact on the uptake of smart infrastructure solutions. Specific examples include: the development of a 'Line of Sight methodology' for industry to create Asset Information Requirements based on Organisational Information requirements - which is being trialled with the Department of Transport's Transport Infrastructure Efficiency programme, based on a CSIC PhD thesis; trialling of an instrumented geotextile system developed by CSIC and Huesker for detection of sinkholes with HS2; development of a satellite monitoring technique for ground stability monitoring with HS2; deployment of novel MEMS gravimeters in a proof of concept project with Silicon Microgravity. CSIC's spinout, Epsimon, continues to provide monitoring services to a variety of clients both in the UK and overseas. CSIC is also continuing to support Network Rail and Highways England in the development and adoption of smart infrastructure solutions. CSIC has led the drafting and launch of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment in association with the Construction Leadership Council. The code was drafted and trialled with input from CSIC's Achieving Net Zero Industry Group which was established in 2020. This group includes government bodies (IPA, BEIS, MHCLG, DfT), industry groups (CLC, i3P, ICE), clients (Anglian Water, Environment Agency, Highways England, Tideway, High Speed 1, Crown Commercial Services) and supply chain organisations (Skanska, Costain, Mace, Wates, Arcadis, COWI, KPMG, Mott MacDonald, Pinsent Masons and QFlow). Detailed trials were carried out by the National Association of Construction Frameworks (NACF), the Environment Agency and the Skanska-Costain-Strabag Joint Venture (working with HS2). The first six signatories have been announced. Spin-outs - Four start-up companies have spun out from CSIC - Epsimon, 8Power, and UtterBerry, and Bkwai creating new jobs and meeting the need for new technologies in the marketplace. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Sector | Construction,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Energy,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Security and Diplomacy,Transport,Other |
| Description | 'Design Engineer Construct!' Digital Twins workshop-Didem Gurdur Broo |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Dr Didem Gürdür Broo, CSIC Research Associate, champions the education of young people in data science and was delighted to be asked to be part of a virtual Digital Twins workshop for Class of Your Own secondary school students held this month (July). Class of Your Own (COYO) was launched as a Social Business in 2009 to provide STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)-focused creative curriculum and built environment student engagement programmes. Created by land surveyor Alison Watson, the Design, Engineer Construct! (DEC) learning programme includes fully-accredited qualifications and is delivered in schools and colleges across the UK and internationally, and is supported by industry leaders, professional bodies and universities. "My involvement came from a chat I had with a former colleague at the University of Cambridge who is now at Bentley Systems, Maria Gkovedarou, about how important it is to educate the current and future workforce on data science and digital twins. I have a huge respect for and big expectations of our future generations because they are growing up in a different world and have access to tools and resources that I believe can change the future." Bentley Systems supports the DEC programme and hosted the first ever Future Infrastructure Challenge: DEC Hyperloop in 2019, which required sixth form students, aged 16 to 18, from four schools in the UK to conceptualise a design of a hyperloop transport system and stations for Singapore. A number of students who have been working on their hyperloop infrastructure projects for 18 months were invited to attend a week of intensive workshops held this summer to complete their programme of study, and be the first in the world to gain a brand new DEC qualification for young people aged 16 plus. Alison Watson, CEO and Founder of COYO, invited Didem to lead the Digital Twins workshop, which was supported by Alison and Maria. "Preparing to communicate data science and Digital Twins to a younger audience during the hour-long workshop presented the greatest challenge," said Didem. "Describing the concepts in a simplified way without using academic jargon was a useful exercise. I did not know if the students would engage with my teaching or not, but their confidence and ability to ask questions and engage with discussions made everything easy. The rewarding part of it was to work with so many bright minds and to initiate some thinking out-of-the-box process with them. It was a very interactive way of teaching and the students engaged with the topic, asked me really important questions and answered my questions with honesty - they did not hesitate to criticise the whole concept and its applications. "They immediately saw the value of using Digital Twins and asked me some questions about how and what they should think about. I enjoyed the whole process and felt really hopeful after the workshop. I am very thankful for this opportunity - I would be happy to do it again." Class of Your Own launches the Level 3 'Design Engineer Construct! Future Infrastructure' qualification this autumn and once again, the organisation has the support of significant leaders. Alison Watson said: "COYO might be a small organisation, but our mission is as big as ever; to educate the Future of Construction, the incredible digital talent that sits in classrooms around the world. Great champions like Didem inspire our students and give genuine context to their studies. I'm thrilled she agreed to get involved and I look forward to next time." |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/csic-research-associate-leads-design-engineer-con... |
| Description | A Review of Earthworks Management Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE FREng FICE FRS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Identifying a lack of information "on pore water pressures and suctions in slopes and embankments and on their response to different rainfall and weather patterns", the Review recommends an increase of investment in research and development: "The development of data analytics is also considered as a useful tool to manage a large and complex asset base and harnessing more value from existing data sets through smarter information." In conclusion the Review states: "We recommend that Network Rail build on their comprehensive asset management system and progressively adopt a broader and more integrated approach to the management of Earthworks, Drainage and Vegetation, taking account of changing weather patterns. There is a need to breakdown the historic silos between these interdependent assets across the organisation to support the delivery of a safe, cost-effective and sustainable railway infrastructure into the future." |
| URL | https://www.networkrail.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Network-Rail-Earthworks-Review-Final-Report... |
| Description | APESS - CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | As Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Department of Transport policy on Artificial Intelligence in Transport |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Department of Transport policy on Autonomous Vehicles |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Department of Transport policy on Future of Flight |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Department of Transport policy on Future of Mobility |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Department of Transport policy on Hyperloop |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Department of Transport policy on Transport Infrastructure Efficiency Strategy |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As Head of CSIC responsible for producing Guidelines for Department of Transport on Condition Monitoring and Intelligent Infrastructure Professor Lord Robert Mair has Influenced systematic reviews, guidelines and policy documents |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Government policy on the following topic (through publication of reports): Nuclear Research and Technology (published May 2017) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | As a member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology, Professor Lord Robert Mair has influenced Government policy on the following topic: Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (published March 2017) |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | BSI B/555 CB5 Strategic Planning Committee - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | BSI B/555 Committee on Design, Construction & Operational Data & Process Management for the Built Environment - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | CSIC hosted the workshop on Smart Infrastructure for the DFT Scientific Advisory Committee and DFT Agencies |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Implementation circular/rapid advice/letter to e.g. Ministry of Health |
| Description | 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) at COP26 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/carbon-reduction-code |
| Description | CZPF witness session: strategic land use planning - Jennifer Schooling |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Cambridge Zero Policy Forum study on local priorities for investing in resilient and sustainable infrastructure Witness session 3: strategic land use planning in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region |
| Description | Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | Following this soft launch, organisations are encouraged to get involved and sign up to committing to the code. The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment will then be formally launched in the autumn to coincide with the UK hosting the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference at COP26. |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/carbon-reduction-code |
| Description | Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment Included in The Construction Playbook |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | Widening of awareness for the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1102... |
| Description | Centre for Doctoral Training Sensors Day - JMS presentation |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Chair of Strategic Research Advisory Group, Centre for Digital Built Britain (JMS) |
| Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/CDBBResearchBridgehead |
| Description | Chair of the Department for Transport's (DfT's) Science Advisory Council |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Chairman of the Department of Transport's Science Advisory Council |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Commissioner, Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| URL | https://www.royalcommission1851.org/about-us/ |
| Description | Council Member in the International Society for Structural Health Monitoring of Intelligent Infrastructure (ISHMII) |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | http://www.ishmii.org/new-council-members-introduced/ |
| Description | DFOS training - CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | DOFS CERN short course / training CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | DOFS sensing short course - CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Department for Transport Science Advisory Committee-John Orr |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Digital Catapult Crossrail PitStop - invited speaker - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Digital Framework Task Group JMS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Digital Transformation Task Group JMS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Empowering young people to become the climate-aware built environment professionals of the future: What do we need to do now? - COP26 - Sam Cocking |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Sam Cocking said: "The built environment and infrastructure sectors have significant carbon footprints and, if we are serious about meeting our net zero objectives, we will need to achieve a sea change in how carbon is factored into the design, use, maintenance, and decommissioning of our built assets. This will require an evolution in the skills we teach young professionals, closer collaboration between academia and industry so that we can speed up innovation, and a common language of carbon that crosses the barriers between traditional roles in our sectors. This event, with its dialogue between young and senior professionals, will examine what needs to happen now to kick start these changes." |
| URL | https://www.workcast.com/register?cpak=7926389076887414 |
| Description | FBb sensing short course/training CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | FINESSE - Commercialising your research training - PK |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | H2020 short course / training CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | HS2 BIM Advisory Group JMS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Highways England Innovation workshop - invited participant - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | House of Lords Augar Review of Post-18 Education and Funding Debate |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/head-of-csic-champions-modern-engineer... |
| Description | ICE Asset Management 2015 conference - invited speaker - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | ICE Brunel Lecture Advisory Board - Jennifer Schooling |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | ICE Council annual strategy meeting - invited speaker and participant JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | ICE Triennial Summit - invited speaker - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Description | ISO TC59 SC13 Organization and digitization of information about buildings and civil engineering works - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | IStructE Invited speaker - international conference |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Innovate UK Innovate 15 - invited speaker - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Institution of Civil Engineers State of the Nation 2020: Net-Zero |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Invited member to the Construction Leadership Council working party on Procuring for Value |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | The CLC's objective is to drive industry improvement. It draws together business leaders from across the sector to identify how to promote solutions to meet the ambition of a 33% reduction in cost, a 50% reduction in project time, a 50% reduction in carbon emissions and a 50% reduction in the trade gap. The "Procuring for Value" report provides recommendations on how government, clients and the industry can maximise the impact of the sector deal by a change in approach to procurement |
| URL | http://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/news/procuring-for-value/ |
| Description | KTN Built evironment advisory board - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Lead for the Cambridgeshire Autonomous Metro (CAM)-Robert Mair |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/head-csic-professor-lord-robert-mair-appointed-ch... |
| Description | Lead for the Network Rail Earthworks Management Task Force |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/head-csic-appointed-lead-task-force-wake-stonehav... |
| Description | Line of Sight: an Asset Management Methodology to Support Organisational Objectives |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Impact | The Line of Sight Methodology has already been tested by Jacobs on the Network Rail Transpennine Route Upgrade and industry-friendly tools and guidance on adopting the methodology are in development. "The Line of Sight Methodology aims to address the fundamental challenge of developing information requirements by developing Organisational and Asset Information Requirements that ultimately enable digital transformation within the industry. This project addresses this challenge by providing a structured approach to the development of information requirements," said Heaton. "We are actively engaging with the broader industry and collating feedback to ensure that the methodology meets the needs of its intended users. We are keen to hear from companies and organisations in the industry wishing to trial or start using the Line of Sight Methodology." |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/files/line_of_sight_july_2021.pdf |
| Description | Maria Scott technical training CK |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Meeting with National Grid - Jennifer Schooling |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or Improved professional practice |
| Description | Member Transport Research and Innovation Board |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Member of Smart Construction Network |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.smartconstructionnetwork.org.uk/ |
| Description | Member of the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology - Offsite Manufacture in Construction - Building for Change Report |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | A report published by the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee, Off-site Manufacture for construction: building for change, says that off-site manufacture (OSM) can help to increase productivity in the construction sector while reducing labour demands, improving the quality and efficiency of buildings, and reducing the environmental impacts associated with traditional construction. |
| URL | https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201719/ldselect/ldsctech/169/16902.htm |
| Description | Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government-discussion on embodied carbon-John Orr |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Our vision for the built environment steering group - Jennifer Schooling |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling, CSIC Director, said: "I was delighted to be involved in the Steering Group to develop this incisive and collaborative industry manifesto. I believe this Vision sets out an important direction for those who build and manage the built environment. It makes achieving better outcomes for people and the planet the focus of the existing built environment and its future development." Knowledge transfer between academia and industry not only strengthens economic development but also provides the tools and technology to make this future vision a reality, addressing current challenges from the climate crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. This Vision is aligned to the UK Government's ambition to encourage innovation and inclusion so people and nature are at the heart of how we design, build, operate and use our existing built environment. |
| URL | https://indd.adobe.com/view/f2092c85-cd16-4186-9035-e2a63adc2bf9 |
| Description | Ove Arup Foundation Steering workshop - invited participant JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | Panel member at the 'Designing a green and resilient built environment: What do we need to do now and in the future? - Jennifer Schooling - COP26 |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Impact | Improving how we design our built environment will be crucial if we want to realise more green and resilient places to live. The issue is multifaceted and covers low carbon design principles, the value we place on natural capital, the codes, standards and regulations that guide decisions on design and the role of alternatives such as low build or no build design solutions. |
| URL | https://www.workcast.com/register?cpak=4395488292421997 |
| Description | Participation in CLC COVID-19 Construction Sector Call with Anne-Marie Trevelyan MP - Jennifer Schooling |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Ongoing |
| Description | Prof Lord Mair - member of the National Infrastructure Commission Technical Expert Panel |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | member of the National Infrastructure Commission Technical Expert Panel |
| Description | Professor Lord Robert Mair CBE, Founding Head of CSIC at the University of Cambridge, contributed to the debate in the House of Lords on the 'Select Committee Report on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning'. The Report was entitled Preparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| Impact | Knowledge sharing |
| URL | https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/2023-01-12/debates/7FCCFF65-F7CF-4BE0-9A91-3A32F87271BD/Preparin... |
| Description | Professor Lord Robert Mair is Chairman of the Science Advisory Council of the Department of Transport |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | Professor Lord Robert Mair is a Member of House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | Professor Lord Robert Mair is a Member of the National Infrastructure Commission Expert Advisory Technical Group |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | See above |
| Description | Professor Lord Robert Mair, Founding Head of CSIC, led a debate in the House of Lords on the Science and Technology Select Committee's report titled Catapults: Bridging the Gap between Research and Industry discussing the future of the Catapults. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2022-05-19/debates/FE0A05EB-4866-45D7-9508-6007F194E9B5/Catapult... |
| Description | Report from the Economic Affairs Committee Rethinking High Speed 2 |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/head-csic-calls-need-innovation-house-lords-hs2-d... |
| Description | Skanska Deployment team Raman course |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
| Description | Smart Buildings - presentation to Houses of Parliament asset and information management teams - Jennifer Schooling |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | Smart Buildings - presentation to Houses of Parliament asset and information management teams |
| Description | The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment forms part of the Construction Leadership Council's Construct Zero initiative |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The Code provides a simple way for organisations to demonstrate their commitment to net zero to their clients or supply chain. The Code brings together and aligns sector wide initiatives and facilitates cross-sector collaboration to reduce carbon emissions (CO2eq) related to design, construction, maintenance, operation, and decommissioning of built assets. |
| URL | https://www.constructionleadershipcouncil.co.uk/constructzero/ |
| Description | The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment forms part of the Construction Leadership Council's Construct Zero initiative and is referenced in key document - the UKGBC Roadmap. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The Code provides a simple way for organisations to demonstrate their commitment to net zero to their clients or supply chain. The Code brings together and aligns sector wide initiatives and facilitates cross-sector collaboration to reduce carbon emissions (CO2eq) related to design, construction, maintenance, operation, and decommissioning of built assets. |
| URL | https://www.ukgbc.org/ukgbc-work/net-zero-whole-life-roadmap-for-the-built-environment/ |
| Description | The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment is referenced in the UK Government Guidance Note Promoting Net Zero Carbon and Sustainability in Construction September 2022. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to new or improved professional practice |
| Impact | The Code provides a simple way for organisations to demonstrate their commitment to net zero to their clients or supply chain. The Code brings together and aligns sector wide initiatives and facilitates cross-sector collaboration to reduce carbon emissions (CO2eq) related to design, construction, maintenance, operation, and decommissioning of built assets. |
| URL | https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1102... |
| Description | The Institute of Structural Engieers Council Member - John Orr |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | The Institute of Structural Engineers Sustainability Committee-John Orr |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | The Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning appointed by the House of Lords included Professor Lord Robert Mair, Founding Head of CSIC |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-preparing-for-extreme-risks-buildi... |
| Description | Tideway Tideway Academic Advisory Meeting - JMS |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | i3P DLG Advisory Committee JMS |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Description | 1851 RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP |
| Amount | £99,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | CDBB Early Career Researcher - Dr Li Wan - A City-Level Digital Twin Experiment for Exploring the Impacts of Digital Transformation on Journeys to Work in the Cambridge Sub-region |
| Amount | £78,910 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | CDBB Early Career Researcher - Dr Timea Nochta - The local governance of digital technology - Implications for the city-scale digital twin |
| Amount | £59,765 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | CDBB General Research - ECR Funding - Ruchi Choudhary |
| Amount | £81,308 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Digital Built Britain |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2018 |
| End | 07/2019 |
| Description | CDBB General Research Funding |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Digital Built Britain |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | CMMI-EPSRC: Modeling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change |
| Amount | £420,171 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/T019425/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2019 |
| End | 10/2022 |
| Description | CREDS Early Career Researcher - Dr Timea Nochta |
| Amount | £63,765 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2020 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | CSIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre Phase 2 |
| Amount | £2,499,396 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N021614/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 06/2023 |
| Description | CSIC Innovation and Knowledge Centre Phase 2 |
| Amount | £2,499,396 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N021614/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction - Phase 2: Additional Funding for Financial Year 17/18 |
| Amount | £500,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 920038 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 03/2018 |
| Description | Data & Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure - Hardware Funding Allocation |
| Amount | £88,094 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | R47116/CN011 |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 03/2021 |
| Description | Data Centric Engineering - Extension from Sep 2018 to Mar 2019 |
| Amount | £27,684 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 03/2019 |
| Description | Data centric engineering |
| Amount | £100,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2017 |
| End | 02/2018 |
| Description | Data-Centric Engineering Applications in Smart Infrastructure |
| Amount | £216,711 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2019 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | Developing remote capability assessment for Bridges |
| Amount | £70,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2018 |
| End | 12/2019 |
| Description | Digital Changes for Cities |
| Amount | £233,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2017 |
| End | 05/2019 |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change Phase 2 ( Year 3 and 4) |
| Amount | £276,739 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ove Arup Foundation |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2020 |
| End | 05/2023 |
| Description | Dr Liam Butler Fellowship - Group Leader for Data centric engineering |
| Amount | £61,436 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2018 |
| End | 02/2019 |
| Description | Driving Port Efficiency through 5G-enabled Connectivity |
| Amount | £381,083 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Felixstowe Dock and Railway Company |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2020 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | FINNESE (ITN) |
| Amount | £433,790 (GBP) |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| End | 09/2020 |
| Description | FOAK - Autonomous self powered Sensors |
| Amount | £11,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | FOAK - Condition based maintanence |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | FOAK - MetroCare - Strategic decision-making for integrated urban infrastructure |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 971490 |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 08/2016 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | Facebook for Machines (EPSRC Institutional Support Grant) - AKNP |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2016 |
| Description | GIS-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OPTIMIZED RESPONSE TO EXTREME EVENTS ON TERRESTRIAL TRANSPORT NETWORKS (SAFEWAY) |
| Amount | € 4,521,100 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Commission H2020 |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 02/2022 |
| Description | Innovate and Knowledge Centres |
| Amount | £2,499,396 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | International multi-disciplinary workshop: Funding, Financing & Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure |
| Amount | £78,131 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/W016451/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 03/2022 |
| Description | Junior Research Fellowship - MSA |
| Amount | £90,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Clare Hall |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2017 |
| Description | LIFE RESYSTAL |
| Amount | € 133,557 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 09/2021 |
| End | 04/2023 |
| Description | Lifecycle performance monitoring of bridges using digital twins |
| Amount | ₩450,000,000 (KRW) |
| Organisation | Chung-Ang University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2023 |
| Description | Managing Air for Green Inner Cities (MAGIC) - YJ |
| Amount | £4,000,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N010221/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 06/2016 |
| Description | Novel applications of structural equation models for car ownership and travel choice forecasting (PI) - YJ |
| Amount | £25,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| Description | Performance of polymer support fluids for piling and diaphragm walls |
| Amount | £27,800 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | 2109009 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2018 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Description | Poverty in Chinese Cities: application of new data analytics (PI) YJ |
| Amount | £126,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2016 |
| Description | Small Partnership Awards - RC |
| Amount | £20,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2016 |
| Description | Smart Urban Design - XJ |
| Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Global University Alliance |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start | 11/2016 |
| Description | Spatial economic data analyses for Greater Cambridge-Greater Peterborough (GCGP) Enterprise Partnership Strategic Economic Plan (research lead) - YJ |
| Amount | £120,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2016 |
| Description | Staffordshire Bridge Long Term Monitoring |
| Amount | £399,914 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Digital Built Britain |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2020 |
| End | 07/2022 |
| Description | Towards A Flexible, Sustainable Urban Energy System |
| Amount | £199,957 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2021 |
| End | 09/2022 |
| Title | Advanced soil models to be incorporated into commercially available software Extended Saniclay model in Abaqus - Samila Bandara |
| Description | Advanced soil models to be incorporated into commercially available software Extended Saniclay model in Abaqus |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Advanced soil models to be incorporated into commercially available software Extended Saniclay model in Abaqus |
| Title | BIM Maturity Assessment Tool |
| Description | CSIC's BIM Maturity Assessment Tool (BMAT), initially developed in 2017, uses established performance measurement practices, BIM literature, and other relevant standards, to build and expand on previous BIM assessment tools. Consisting of two major parts -measurement of the organisation's BIM development maturity and measurement of the supporting processes - the tool provides a separate assessment of the different stakeholders (contractor, designer and employer), and is designed to be used as a continuous performance measurement tool that can be employed to track the evolution of BIM maturity throughout the construction phase through to handover. The Excel-based tool is designed to be user friendly and adaptable to the needs of individual organisations and projects. Limited testing of the tool was successful but more case studies were needed for validation. Secondment project - BIM Maturity Assessment Tool - This aim of the secondment project was to ensure the tool complies with all of the applicable standards, to validate the tool through five additional cross-sector case studies and to ensure its appropriateness for Level 2 BIM maturity assessments. Also, the tool required future-proofing for extension beyond Level 2. In order to develop the tool and make it effective and useful to industry, diverse case studies were identified from a range of sectors (water, railways, highways, and nuclear) and various stages in the project delivery cycle (design, construction and handover) as well as different contract types (e.g. traditional, and, design and build). The updated tool is structured to ask the right questions of the user depending on the stage of the Information Delivery Cycle (IDC) and which stakeholders are involved. The tool is designed to reveal how well the asset owner has defined the asset information requirements and how well the different project stakeholders have defined their approach to develop these requirements for both the BIM Execution Plan (BEP) and the Master Information Delivery Plan (MIDP). The tool enables clarity on who owns the data, who owns the common data environment, and who will take responsibility for the Asset Information Model (AIM) upon handover. Questions are asked about competency and information production, which standards have been applied, how to measure the quality of data used, and how the different stakeholders collaborate. The tool is designed to be extended further. Plans include testing additional case studies and improving the weighting system and interdependencies between the various BIM elements, as well as the development of a web-based version which will enable widely processing and disseminating maturity assessment results across the country. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | CSIC's BIM Maturity Assessment Tool (BMAT), initially developed in 2017, uses established performance measurement practices, BIM literature, and other relevant standards, to build and expand on previous BIM assessment tools. Consisting of two major parts -measurement of the organisation's BIM development maturity and measurement of the supporting processes - the tool provides a separate assessment of the different stakeholders (contractor, designer and employer), and is designed to be used as a continuous performance measurement tool that can be employed to track the evolution of BIM maturity throughout the construction phase through to handover. The Excel-based tool is designed to be user friendly and adaptable to the needs of individual organisations and projects. Limited testing of the tool was successful but more case studies were needed for validation. |
| Title | Finite Element Method (FEM) |
| Description | Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Data-centric Engineering Programme at The Alan Turing Institute and academic lead for CSIC and CDBB, has been heading up an international consortium whose collaborative research is now published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). The research paper provides a statistical redefinition of the well-known Finite Element Method (FEM), which has been used as a computational predictive tool in the engineering and physical sciences for more than 70 years. Recent advances in data acquisition technologies suggested the need to Professor Girolami and his team to reconsider the FEM from a statistical perspective, and this resulted in a new FEM which is a combination of both data and mathematical models that enhances predictions in engineering and scientific applications in an extremely powerful way."By accepting that our mathematical descriptions of complex systems can be wrong, or at best misspecified, we were able to redefine the theoretical foundations of the FEM to one that is essentially statistical. This then provided for the first time a very natural way to systematically use the FEM to blend data and mathematical models in a really powerful manner," said Professor Girolami. While the research published in PNAS demonstrates the method in the context of internal ocean waves (solitons), which regularly occur on Australia's North West Shelf and are a threat to offshore structures such as wind turbines, it has potential to transform most areas of the sciences and engineering. "These waves have a significant impact on the engineering design, safety and operations of the offshore energy industry, and improved methods of prediction provides significant benefit," said Connor Duffin, PhD student from the University of Western Australia School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing and lead author on the paper. Professor Girolami pointed out the implications of the research for advancement of Digital Twins: "The idea of Digital Twins - the pairing of the physical and digital world - is of significant current interest to the broader engineering community. By systematically integrating data with FEMs, this new work provides the much-needed theoretical foundations, methodology and practical algorithms by which these Digital Twins can be realised. "It also serves as an ideal springboard into the forthcoming ARC Industrial Transformation Research Hub for Transforming Energy Infrastructure through Digital Engineering, hosted at UWA and directed by Shell Professor Phil Watson, with which CSIC and The Alan Turing Institute is very excited to collaborate." Researchers involved in the project include Connor Duffin, Edward Cripps, Thomas Stemler from The University of Western Australia, and Mark Girolami from the University of Cambridge and The Alan Turing Institute. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Science and engineering have benefited greatly from the ability of finite element methods (FEMs) to simulate nonlinear, time-dependent complex systems. The recent advent of extensive data collection from such complex systems now raises the question of how to systematically incorporate these data into finite element models, consistently updating the solution in the face of mathematical model misspecification with physical reality. This article describes general and widely applicable methodology for the coherent synthesis of data with FEM models, providing a data-driven probability distribution that captures all sources of uncertainty in the pairing of FEM with measurements. |
| URL | https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2015006118 |
| Title | Foundation anomaly detection with thermal integrity testing |
| Description | An anomaly detection system for cast in-situ piles has developed in CSIC. The system employed a new integrity test, Thermal Integrity Profiling (TIP), to measure temperature changes and thermal profiles of concrete during curing. Heat generation and dissipation of early-age concrete is determined by the concrete mix, the ground conditions and the shape of the concrete structure. Any existing defects inside the concrete body will appear local temperature variations when compared to the expected heat generated during curing. The devised anomaly detection system combines early-age temperature monitoring data with finite element (FE) back-analyses and utilize the heat of hydration and heat transfer theory. The FE model can be customised for different pile designs and ground conditions. The predicted temperature profile from the numerical model of an as-designed pile is then compared to the field test temperature data. Any temperature discrepancies indicate potential anomalies of the pile structure. To quantitively evaluate the pile quality, the system then follows an investigative staged process to establish and assess anomalies in the problematic regions along the pile employing the combined use of FE simulations and generic evolution algorithms. These algorithms will be used to calibrate the cement hydration model and minimise the temperature discrepancies mentioned above. At each stage, more details can be revealed about the anomalies being investigated including, crucially, location, size and shape. This staged process enables practitioners to follow a risk-based approach and decide whether or not to pursue subsequent stages of construction depending on the results they get at the end of each stage. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Through the collaboration with our industry partners, the method has already been implemented in the field. The field test results have shown this system can successfully detect anomalies of less than 10% cross-section area. The team will continue working with industrial partners on more field trials to verify the detectability in different field conditions. Researchers expect that this thermal integrity approach could potentially become a standard quality control approach in the industry within a few years. In the meantime, we have secured some additional funding from our industry partners to support us on further developing this research tool. |
| Title | Monitoring axial shortening |
| Description | CSIC has developed a novel application of distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) to continuously measure the progressive axial shortening of reinforced concrete columns and walls during the construction of high-rise buildings. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | The data acquired to date provide the shortening time histories of the instrumented elements with unprecedented detail and at an unprecedented temporal density. This information has been used to demonstrate how an element's shortening is affected by its profile and stiffness, with smaller and less stiff elements shortening more. The continuous data also show that transient thermal effects can play a significant role in axial shortening, at times accounting for as much as 50 per cent of the total deformation. This is particularly significant as shortening predictions prior to construction do not take into account such thermal effects. CSIC's FO monitoring system also makes it possible to observe the effects of occasional and unexpected events - such as an incident of abrupt loading - which could not be observed with periodic or occasional measurements. |
| Title | Predictive Maintenance Model |
| Description | CSIC researchers have developed a methodology to help asset managers to determine the most optimal timing for interventions on their bridge portfolio in a predictive manner. As maintenance budgets for bridge systems are squeezed, many necessary maintenance activities are delayed or cancelled. Retaining an appropriate level of service and safety for an infrastructure network has become a challenging issue and there is pressing need for a smart asset management approach for road bridges. The structure of the overall approach is composed of five interconnected models: deterioration model; lifecycle cost model; predictive maintenance; group maintenance; and maintenance scheduling model (Figure 2). The deterioration model is formulated for each component of the bridges based on the information from the Structures Asset Management Planning Toolkit, general inspection, and other theoretical models. The predictability of the maintenance model enables proactive grouping of maintenance activities at different timings to reduce add-on costs such as the cost of preliminaries, traffic management and design. These add-on costs can be up to 80 per cent of the cost of repairs that are carried out at the same time. Finally, a designed to be meaningful and supports asset management planning and business case development for the asset owner, as well as the interface between the Structures Asset Management Toolkit and asset management systems to allow asset data input to be automated. The tool is designed to be used for any type of bridge from footbridges to motorway bridges. It has been tested and demonstrated using real industry data and dependencies and, constraints have been tested to enable scenario planning. To develop the CISC toolkit, data including deterioration rates and maintenance costs were extracted from the 2015 update of the Structures Asset Management Toolkit Documentation published by the Department for Transport. This data is different from the current version of the DfT Strcutures Asset Management Toolkit released in 2017. Therefore, it is difficult to compare the CSIC toolkit results against the DfT toolkit. The latest data are required in order to secure more accurate results and also validate the outcome of the CSIC toolkit. The available tools in the market have a time-dependent strategy based on experience. The CSIC tool is the first to provide a strategy based on data using a mathematical model to reduce the maintenance costs and improve the safety of bridges at the same time; the CSIC tool introduces a cost and safety dependent maintenance strategy. The tool can be used for a wide range of applications within the infrastructure sector. The next step is to make the tool adaptable for different types of assets such as tunnels, retaining walls, and earthworks. Our secondment programme offers benefits to all stakeholders. Secondees bring new skills, projects and challenges to CSIC that help to develop emerging tools and technologies for industry use. The secondees gain a deep understanding of innovations which they can apply for the direct benefit of their own companies/organisations. |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | CSIC researchers have developed a methodology to help asset managers to determine the most optimal timing for interventions on their bridge portfolio in a predictive manner. As maintenance budgets for bridge systems are squeezed, many necessary maintenance activities are delayed or cancelled. Retaining an appropriate level of service and safety for an infrastructure network has become a challenging issue and there is pressing need for a smart asset management approach for road bridges. The structure of the overall approach is composed of five interconnected models: deterioration model; lifecycle cost model; predictive maintenance; group maintenance; and maintenance scheduling model (Figure 2). The deterioration model is formulated for each component of the bridges based on the information from the Structures Asset Management Planning Toolkit, general inspection, and other theoretical models. The predictability of the maintenance model enables proactive grouping of maintenance activities at different timings to reduce add-on costs such as the cost of preliminaries, traffic management and design. These add-on costs can be up to 80 per cent of the cost of repairs that are carried out at the same time. Finally, a designed to be meaningful and supports asset management planning and business case development for the asset owner, as well as the interface between the Structures Asset Management Toolkit and asset management systems to allow asset data input to be automated. The tool is designed to be used for any type of bridge from footbridges to motorway bridges. It has been tested and demonstrated using real industry data and dependencies and, constraints have been tested to enable scenario planning. |
| Title | A vibration-based bridge scour monitoring technique |
| Description | Historically, the most common cause of bridge failure has been "scour" - the gradual erosion of soil around bridge foundations due to rapid water flow. A reliable technique to monitor scour could potentially guide timely repair and, in turn, mitigate the risk of future scour-induced bridge failure. Currently, there are various, mostly underwater, techniques employed by bridge managers to monitor scour, ranging from diving inspections to autonomous underwater vehicles; however, none have gained wide acceptance. A particular disadvantage of underwater monitoring techniques is that the equipment underwater is relatively difficult to install and prone to damage from fast-flowing water and debris. One possible solution might be to use a vibration-based method to monitor scour indirectly, using changes in dynamic modal parameters (e.g. the natural frequency of vibration) captured by sensors mounted on the bridge deck or piers above the water level. There has been extensive research into the use of vibration-based monitoring methods to identify other causes of failure, such as cracking and deterioration in bridge superstructures; however, this has proven to be ineffective in practice, as the expected sensitivities in modal parameters were only single-digit percentages and therefore insufficient to overcome environmental/operational sensitivity. In contrast to superstructure damage, scour is a special damage case, which changes a boundary condition of the bridge in the form of an increase in effective pier height as a result of the lowering of the ground level and therefore, significant changes in modal parameters can be expected. Recently, this concept has been studied primarily using numerical modelling simulations of a hypothetical integral bridge with piled foundations. Only one modal parameter - natural frequency - was investigated in most of these studies and it was predicted to change by up to double-digit percentages due to scour. Although such a high change could potentially overcome environmental and operational sensitivities, a critical problem is that this has been difficult to observe in practice with experiments on either real field bridges or small-scale soil-structure models. Another problem is that there is little knowledge of the applicability of this technique to different types of bridges and forms of scour. This research proposes a vibration-based technique based on a combination of three vibration parameters (spectral density, mode shape and natural frequency), which were studied using first-of-a-kind experiments and numerical modelling simulations on various types of bridges and forms of scour. A field trial was carried out on a bridge with pre-existing scour, which was monitored for ambient vibrations throughout a repair process involving controlled scour backfilling, i.e., "scour in reverse". The effect of this scour backfilling was captured by measuring changes in two of these parameters, mode shape and spectral density, derived from the ambient vibrations. The mode shapes, in particular, showed the potential to localise the presence of scour to a specific pier. The most commonly measured vibration parameter of natural frequency was also observed from ambient vibrations, but this did not capture the effects of backfilling due to high measurement uncertainties. In order to study all three of these vibration parameters in a controlled environment, a centrifuge model testing programme was developed. These tests considered small-scale models representing three full-scale bridges with different bridge deck and foundation configurations (i.e. integral/ simply supported decks and shallow/deep foundations) and two forms of scour (i.e. local/global). The observed results of these small-scale centrifuge models were used to calibrate numerical models of full-scale bridges representative of these centrifuge models. Numerical simulation techniques were also developed to simulate the experimentally observed effects of local and global scour. These centrifuge experiments and the associated numerical modelling found that vibration-based methods have broad applicability for bridges, although only some parameters showed sufficient sensitivity to be viable as a monitoring technique in certain types of bridges. For example, the centrifuge bridge models with a shallow foundation did not show a significant change in natural frequency or mode shapes, but they did show a significant change in modal spectral density. This research therefore concludes that a vibration-based scour monitoring technique, examining the combined effect of natural frequency, mode shape and spectral density parameters, has significant potential to measure and even localise the change of scour depths at bridge foundations. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Conference paper: Kariyawasam, K.K.G.K.D., Fidler, P.R.A., Talbot, J.P. and Middleton, C.R. (2019). Field deployment of an ambient vibration-based scour monitoring system at Baildon Bridge, UK, Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2019 (ICSIC): Driving data-informed decision-making, 8-10 July 2019, Cambridge, UK. (DeJong, M.J., Schooling, J.M., Viggiana, G.M.B. eds.) ICE Publishing, London. pp. 711-719. ISBN: 978-0-7277-6466-9. doi:10.1680/icsic.64669.711 |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/311753 |
| Title | Augmenting an existing railway bridge monitoring system with additional sensors to create a bridge weigh-in-motion system and digital twin |
| Description | Infrastructure asset managers have limited maintenance budgets and require qualitive data on the performance and utilization of their assets in order to prioritize preventative maintenance. A project investigating the potential for using digital twins for infrastructure asset management provided an opportunity to augment an already extensive fiber-optic strain-based bridge structural health monitoring system with additional sensors measuring both deck rotation and axle positions. Data from the new and existing sensors is fed to a database in near real time. In addition to a simple web-based visualization (dashboard), the data from the system can be utilized by a number of different analytical back-ends which together form a Digital Twin of the bridge. The first of these back-ends provides a bridge weigh-in-motion system, but other back ends are possible including statistical finite element analysis models or Bayesian or computer vision-based train categorization systems. This paper details the design and implementation of the augmented system including the additional hardware and software required. Constrains included the requirement to install the new sensors and cabling quickly during a time-limited overnight possession of the bridge. Challenges included the need to correctly timestamp the incoming data from the various separate sensor systems so that the results obtained could be compared and combined correctly. This paper includes some preliminary data demonstrating that the newly augmented system is capable of providing useful data to the asset owner. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | TBC |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/339327 |
| Title | CSIC Fibre-Optics Data Analysis Dashboard |
| Description | The construction and infrastructure industries grapple with huge volumes of data (big data), when attempting to monitor the structural health of their infrastructure. CSIC is producing a Fibre-Optics Data Analysis Dashboard to assist the industries in quickly and efficiently assessing huge volumes of data for the key message. |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | The CSIC FODA Dashboard is still in the Research and Development phase, with CSIC's Industry Partners providing vital sites and data, as well as industry feedback as the dashboard develops. |
| Title | Data collected strain and temperature sensors on Chebsey Bridge, Staffordshire from November 2021 |
| Description | Chebsey Bridge in Staffordshire was instrumented with FBG strain and Temperature sensors during construction in 2015. A permanent power supply allowing 24/7 data collection was added in 2021. The dataset consists of strain and temperature data from a subset of the FBG strain and temperature sensors taken during the passage of trains over the bridge. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Work in progress / Research data |
| Title | Data collected strain, accelerometer, range finder and temperature sensors on Norton Bridge, Staffordshire from November 2021 |
| Description | Norton Bridge in Staffordshire was instrumented with FBG strain and Temperature sensors during construction in 2015. A permanent power supply allowing 24/7 data collection was added in 2021. Accelerometer and laser range finder sensors were also added in 2021. The dataset consists of strain and temperature data from a subset of the FBG strain and temperature sensors, 3-axis acceleration data from four QMEMS accelerometers and wheel present/absent indications from four laser rangefinder sensors - taken during the passage of trains over the bridge. There is additionally 24/7 data from a separate temperature/humidity sensor situated close to the bridge. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Work in progress / Research data |
| Title | Data set related to the publication: "Structural performance monitoring using a dynamic data-driven BIM environment" |
| Description | The data was collected for the ME01 project being carried out in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge under EPSRC grant no. EP/L010917/1 The ME01 project is a fibre optic instrumentation and dynamic monitoring programme at Norton Bridge, UK, part of the Stafford Area Improvements Programme. The strain data was collected using fibre optic monitoring technologies based on fibre Bragg gratings. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Data supporting "Assessment of bridge natural frequency as an indicator of scour using centrifuge modelling" |
| Description | This dataset contains the Matlab files, raw data files and other spreadsheets related to the centrifuge experimental programme conducted to study the vibration-based scour monitoring technique. Please see the ReadMe file for more detailed information. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Research data |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/322395 |
| Title | Data supporting "Augmenting an existing railway bridge monitoring system with additional sensors to create a bridge weigh-in-motion system and digital twin" |
| Description | Data used to create plots and charts in the associated conference paper. The data consists of accelerometer data, raw fibre-optic strain sensor readings and axle position data of a train crossing an instrumented bridge. Please see readme document for further details |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | TBC |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/339254 |
| Title | Data supporting 'Long-term monitoring of the Humber Bridge Hessle Anchorage Chamber' |
| Description | This dataset contains data recorded by a wireless sensor network installed in the Hessle Anchorage or the Humber Bridge. The sensors recorded temperature and relative humidity from mid-2007 to end-2019. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Paper : 'Long-term monitoring of the Humber Bridge Hessle Anchorage Chamber' |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/315377 |
| Title | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge - QL |
| Description | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models. A point cloud model for west Cambridge site and a point cloud model for IfM building. |
| Type Of Material | Computer model/algorithm |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | No |
| Impact | Basis for further work |
| Title | Principal Tower axial shortening L0-16: Research data supporting "Monitoring the axial displacement of a high-rise building under construction using embedded distributed fibre optic sensors" |
| Description | Axial displacement of columns C8 and C9 and walls W1 and W2 at Principal Tower (London, UK) measured between mid-October 2016 and end March 2017 from levels 0 to 16. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Principal Tower column axial shortening L0-4 |
| Description | Axial displacement of columns C8 and C9 at Principal Tower (London, UK) measured between mid-October and mid-December 2016 from levels 0 to 4. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Research data supporting "A Handheld Diagnostic System for 6LoWPAN Networks" |
| Description | This data consists of Contiki OS/Cooja simulation files to conduct experiments based on previously obtained diagnostic data from a six-month-long deployment on a construction site, specifically on a new Crossrail Station in Paddington, London. Accompanying these files are the scripts and data used to generate the figures presented in the paper. This research data supports "A Handheld Diagnostic System for 6LoWPAN Networks" which will be published in "13th Wireless On-demand Network systems and Services Conference (WONS 2017)" |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Research data supporting "Dynamic response of a damaged masonry rail viaduct: Measurement and interpretation" |
| Description | Dataset includes fibre-optic data and photogrammetry data collected at Marsh Lane Viaduct in Leeds, UK. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Research data supporting "Elastoplastic solutions to predict tunnelling-induced load redistribution and deformation of surface structures" |
| Description | Dataset of the performed analyses |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Research data supporting "Evaluation of the response of a vaulted masonry structure to differential settlements using point cloud data and limit analyses" |
| Description | Raw data, processing algorithms and paper figure data |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Research data supporting "Sensing dynamic displacements in masonry rail bridges using 2D digital image correlation" |
| Description | Key figures (in MATLAB .fig format) from the publication "Sensing dynamic displacements in masonry rail bridges using 2D digital image correlation". |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Research data supporting "Wireless sensor monitoring of Paddington Station Box Corner" |
| Description | This data consists of displacement and inclination sensor data from an excavation at a construction site at Paddington, London between 17/02/2014 and 17/08/2014 and transmitted using a wireless sensor network. Accompanying this data is a location of each of the sensors within the construction site. A portion of this data has been used to generate the figures presented in the paper "Wireless sensor monitoring of Paddington Station Box Corner". |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Research data |
| URL | https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/254928 |
| Title | Research data supporting: Robust fibre optic sensor arrays for monitoring the early-age behaviour of mass-produced concrete sleepers |
| Description | Research data supporting the above noted publication. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Title | Source code, simulation and data analysis scripts, and relevant data for "Power-efficient piezoelectric fatigue measurement using long-range wireless sensor networks" |
| Description | This dataset consists of the simulation and experimental data, data analysis scripts, and the source code of our wireless sensor system for fatigue strain cycles monitoring, published in "Power-efficient piezoelectric fatigue measurement using long-range wireless sensor networks", Smart Materials and Structures, 2019. The dataset contains several Readme files in various folders - see these for further details. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Description | 5G trial at Port of Felixstowe |
| Organisation | Blue Mesh Solutions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigator, Ajith Parlikad, will take part in a new Government-funded test project to investigate and maximise the benefits of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. As part of a £28 million project to improve people's lives with the mobile network, the Port was chosen as one of nine pilots to test the potential of 5G in two forms; with the deployment of the Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise maintenance, and to enable CCTV transmission to remote-control the Port's 113 cranes. Working with Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions, Ericsson and Siemens, the project will test the potential of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. The project aims to test how Britain can seize the full benefits of 5G and help British industries capitalise on the power of modern technology. It will explore two use cases: enabling remote-controlled cranes via the transmission of CCTV; and deploying Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise the predicative maintenance cycle of Felixstowe's 31 quayside and 82 yard cranes. Harnessing the speed, low-latency and high-capacity of 5G, the project will demonstrate the productivity and efficiency gains of such technology, whilst reducing unplanned outage. Dr Ajith Parlikad, head of the Asset Management research group at the IfM, said: 'This is a fantastic opportunity to explore how we can bring together the advances in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), 5G, and advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to radically transform the way in which assets are managed and maintained in a complex industrial environment.' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 5G trial at Port of Felixstowe |
| Organisation | Ericsson |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigator, Ajith Parlikad, will take part in a new Government-funded test project to investigate and maximise the benefits of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. As part of a £28 million project to improve people's lives with the mobile network, the Port was chosen as one of nine pilots to test the potential of 5G in two forms; with the deployment of the Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise maintenance, and to enable CCTV transmission to remote-control the Port's 113 cranes. Working with Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions, Ericsson and Siemens, the project will test the potential of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. The project aims to test how Britain can seize the full benefits of 5G and help British industries capitalise on the power of modern technology. It will explore two use cases: enabling remote-controlled cranes via the transmission of CCTV; and deploying Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise the predicative maintenance cycle of Felixstowe's 31 quayside and 82 yard cranes. Harnessing the speed, low-latency and high-capacity of 5G, the project will demonstrate the productivity and efficiency gains of such technology, whilst reducing unplanned outage. Dr Ajith Parlikad, head of the Asset Management research group at the IfM, said: 'This is a fantastic opportunity to explore how we can bring together the advances in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), 5G, and advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to radically transform the way in which assets are managed and maintained in a complex industrial environment.' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 5G trial at Port of Felixstowe |
| Organisation | Siemens AG |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigator, Ajith Parlikad, will take part in a new Government-funded test project to investigate and maximise the benefits of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. As part of a £28 million project to improve people's lives with the mobile network, the Port was chosen as one of nine pilots to test the potential of 5G in two forms; with the deployment of the Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise maintenance, and to enable CCTV transmission to remote-control the Port's 113 cranes. Working with Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions, Ericsson and Siemens, the project will test the potential of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. The project aims to test how Britain can seize the full benefits of 5G and help British industries capitalise on the power of modern technology. It will explore two use cases: enabling remote-controlled cranes via the transmission of CCTV; and deploying Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise the predicative maintenance cycle of Felixstowe's 31 quayside and 82 yard cranes. Harnessing the speed, low-latency and high-capacity of 5G, the project will demonstrate the productivity and efficiency gains of such technology, whilst reducing unplanned outage. Dr Ajith Parlikad, head of the Asset Management research group at the IfM, said: 'This is a fantastic opportunity to explore how we can bring together the advances in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), 5G, and advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to radically transform the way in which assets are managed and maintained in a complex industrial environment.' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 5G trial at Port of Felixstowe |
| Organisation | Three UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigator, Ajith Parlikad, will take part in a new Government-funded test project to investigate and maximise the benefits of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. As part of a £28 million project to improve people's lives with the mobile network, the Port was chosen as one of nine pilots to test the potential of 5G in two forms; with the deployment of the Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise maintenance, and to enable CCTV transmission to remote-control the Port's 113 cranes. Working with Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions, Ericsson and Siemens, the project will test the potential of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. The project aims to test how Britain can seize the full benefits of 5G and help British industries capitalise on the power of modern technology. It will explore two use cases: enabling remote-controlled cranes via the transmission of CCTV; and deploying Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise the predicative maintenance cycle of Felixstowe's 31 quayside and 82 yard cranes. Harnessing the speed, low-latency and high-capacity of 5G, the project will demonstrate the productivity and efficiency gains of such technology, whilst reducing unplanned outage. Dr Ajith Parlikad, head of the Asset Management research group at the IfM, said: 'This is a fantastic opportunity to explore how we can bring together the advances in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), 5G, and advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to radically transform the way in which assets are managed and maintained in a complex industrial environment.' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 5G trial at Port of Felixstowe |
| Organisation | UK Government Investments |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigator, Ajith Parlikad, will take part in a new Government-funded test project to investigate and maximise the benefits of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. As part of a £28 million project to improve people's lives with the mobile network, the Port was chosen as one of nine pilots to test the potential of 5G in two forms; with the deployment of the Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise maintenance, and to enable CCTV transmission to remote-control the Port's 113 cranes. Working with Three UK, Blue Mesh Solutions, Ericsson and Siemens, the project will test the potential of 5G at the Port of Felixstowe. The project aims to test how Britain can seize the full benefits of 5G and help British industries capitalise on the power of modern technology. It will explore two use cases: enabling remote-controlled cranes via the transmission of CCTV; and deploying Internet of Things sensors and artificial intelligence to optimise the predicative maintenance cycle of Felixstowe's 31 quayside and 82 yard cranes. Harnessing the speed, low-latency and high-capacity of 5G, the project will demonstrate the productivity and efficiency gains of such technology, whilst reducing unplanned outage. Dr Ajith Parlikad, head of the Asset Management research group at the IfM, said: 'This is a fantastic opportunity to explore how we can bring together the advances in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), 5G, and advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence to radically transform the way in which assets are managed and maintained in a complex industrial environment.' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | 8 Power |
| Organisation | 8 Power Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Translating technologies on energy harvesting and low-power sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Translating technologies on energy harvesting and low-power sensors |
| Impact | Translating technologies on energy harvesting and low-power sensors |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | 8 Power - PRAF |
| Organisation | 8 Power Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Innovate UK First-Of-A-Kind Project - Phase I (JMS, DRH, PRAF) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Innovate UK First-Of-A-Kind Project - Phase I (JMS, DRH, PRAF) |
| Impact | Innovate UK First-Of-A-Kind Project - Phase I (JMS, DRH, PRAF) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | ARUP - MJD |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Worked closely analysing monitoring data for masonry structures above the Crossrail tunnels |
| Collaborator Contribution | Worked closely analysing monitoring data for masonry structures above the Crossrail tunnels |
| Impact | Worked closely analysing monitoring data for masonry structures above the Crossrail tunnels |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | ARUP development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles -JMS |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles |
| Collaborator Contribution | development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles |
| Impact | development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Academic partner for: Guide to Tremie Concrete for Deep Foundations |
| Organisation | European Federation of Foundation Contractors |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Learned Society |
| PI Contribution | Attended multiple meetings in Europe to partake in academic discussions on the best practice for producing deep foundations. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Multiple options for numerical models were discussed during the meetings and the development of the guide. The numerical method we use was discussed in detail but unfortunately was not ready in time for current version publication. |
| Impact | Publication of wide-reaching best practice guide. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Achieving Net Zero Roundtable |
| Organisation | Arcadis NV |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC, COWI and Arcadis jointly hosting an Achieving Net Zero Roundtable Discussion. The infrastructure and construction industry must take action now if we are to achieve net zero carbon by 2050. Some organisations have already publicly stated their commitment to achieve this even before 2050. However, the majority of organisations, although accepting the need to take up this challenge, do not know where to start. What can we as an industry do now to move towards the net zero goal and what changes in policy are needed to enable industry to reach this goal? This cross-government and industry roundtable event, organised by CSIC, Arcadis, and COWI, will address three initial questions. 1) What design and site measures can be adopted to reduce waste and move towards achieving net zero? How can existing data and digital tools be exploited to achieve this? 2) Given the climate emergency and government commitment to net zero by 2050, what changes to their procurement documents and processes can public sector, regulated industry and private sector clients make immediately? 3) What further actions can government ask of asset owners and project clients under existing powers? An action plan for each question will be developed for both individual organisations and at a systemic level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Achieving Net Zero Roundtable |
| Organisation | COWI A/S |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC, COWI and Arcadis jointly hosting an Achieving Net Zero Roundtable Discussion. The infrastructure and construction industry must take action now if we are to achieve net zero carbon by 2050. Some organisations have already publicly stated their commitment to achieve this even before 2050. However, the majority of organisations, although accepting the need to take up this challenge, do not know where to start. What can we as an industry do now to move towards the net zero goal and what changes in policy are needed to enable industry to reach this goal? This cross-government and industry roundtable event, organised by CSIC, Arcadis, and COWI, will address three initial questions. 1) What design and site measures can be adopted to reduce waste and move towards achieving net zero? How can existing data and digital tools be exploited to achieve this? 2) Given the climate emergency and government commitment to net zero by 2050, what changes to their procurement documents and processes can public sector, regulated industry and private sector clients make immediately? 3) What further actions can government ask of asset owners and project clients under existing powers? An action plan for each question will be developed for both individual organisations and at a systemic level. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Acoustic Emission Sensing |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | CSIC is working with industry partner Highways England and Kier Group to identify emerging sensing technologies and approaches for the structural assessment and deterioration detection of static highways assets. CSIC has been tasked with exploring the capabilities of acoustic emission (AE) sensing technology for the structural health monitoring of concrete bridges. The structural condition of motorway bridges is commonly monitored through periodic site inspections, which result in signi?cant cost and tra?c disruptions that may be hazardous to road users. Even if these inspections are enhanced by conventional crack monitoring or surveying methods, the underlying deterioration in critical structural members is hard to assess. A systems integration approach that brings together multi-sensing systems, ICT, computer vision technologies, cloud data management, statistics and big data analytics may o?er a better understanding of underlying deterioration and overall structural performance, enabling e?ective structural alert systems for asset management. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | CSIC aims to create a cloud-based data platform for asset management through the creation and integration of numerous digital twins modelling infrastructure networks. Data curation, management, and sharing strategies play a vital role in preparing to meet this long-term vision. Real-time monitoring data from di?erent assets can be analysed and shared through well-de?ned and agreed protocols to make integrated and sustainable asset management practices possible. Interoperability, systems-of-systems perspective and sustainable decision-making would be the core of this platform. Securely sharing the appropriate information with the di?erent stakeholders enables overall digital twin integration, management and monitoring which would change the future of smart infrastructure management. The ?ndings and rich information that will be collected throughout the Highways England Systems Integration for Resilient Infrastructure project and the proposed cloud-based data platform may contribute towards the National Digital Twin programme. The Centre for Digital Built Britain's National Digital Twin programme aims to steer the successful development and adoption of the information management framework for the built environment, and to create an ecosystem of connected digital twins - which opens the opportunity to release value for society, the economy, business and the environment. CSIC's collaborative project with Highways England has potential to become one of many digital twins that would bene?t stakeholders from e?ective information management through cloud- based data platforms which will enable interoperability and data sharing between di?erent assets. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Acoustic Emission Sensing |
| Organisation | Mistras Group Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC is working with industry partner Highways England and Kier Group to identify emerging sensing technologies and approaches for the structural assessment and deterioration detection of static highways assets. CSIC has been tasked with exploring the capabilities of acoustic emission (AE) sensing technology for the structural health monitoring of concrete bridges. The structural condition of motorway bridges is commonly monitored through periodic site inspections, which result in signi?cant cost and tra?c disruptions that may be hazardous to road users. Even if these inspections are enhanced by conventional crack monitoring or surveying methods, the underlying deterioration in critical structural members is hard to assess. A systems integration approach that brings together multi-sensing systems, ICT, computer vision technologies, cloud data management, statistics and big data analytics may o?er a better understanding of underlying deterioration and overall structural performance, enabling e?ective structural alert systems for asset management. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | CSIC aims to create a cloud-based data platform for asset management through the creation and integration of numerous digital twins modelling infrastructure networks. Data curation, management, and sharing strategies play a vital role in preparing to meet this long-term vision. Real-time monitoring data from di?erent assets can be analysed and shared through well-de?ned and agreed protocols to make integrated and sustainable asset management practices possible. Interoperability, systems-of-systems perspective and sustainable decision-making would be the core of this platform. Securely sharing the appropriate information with the di?erent stakeholders enables overall digital twin integration, management and monitoring which would change the future of smart infrastructure management. The ?ndings and rich information that will be collected throughout the Highways England Systems Integration for Resilient Infrastructure project and the proposed cloud-based data platform may contribute towards the National Digital Twin programme. The Centre for Digital Built Britain's National Digital Twin programme aims to steer the successful development and adoption of the information management framework for the built environment, and to create an ecosystem of connected digital twins - which opens the opportunity to release value for society, the economy, business and the environment. CSIC's collaborative project with Highways England has potential to become one of many digital twins that would bene?t stakeholders from e?ective information management through cloud- based data platforms which will enable interoperability and data sharing between di?erent assets. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, Netherlands - ES |
| Organisation | Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Shadow EU-Summit: managing cities of tomorrow |
| Collaborator Contribution | Shadow EU-Summit: managing cities of tomorrow |
| Impact | Shadow EU-Summit: managing cities of tomorrow |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Anglian Water - AKNP |
| Organisation | Anglian Water Services |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Asset Management |
| Collaborator Contribution | Asset Management |
| Impact | Asset Management |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Anglian Water - PTK |
| Organisation | Anglian Water Services |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Grafham Water |
| Collaborator Contribution | Grafham Water |
| Impact | Grafham Water |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Anglian Water - PTK |
| Organisation | Anglian Water Services |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Newmarket Shopwindow |
| Collaborator Contribution | Newmarket Shopwindow |
| Impact | Newmarket Shopwindow |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Applications of New Techniques to the Detection and Monitoring of Bridge Scour |
| Organisation | WSP Group plc |
| Department | WSP UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Cam Middleton and WSP working on secondment project 'Applications of New Techniques to the Detection and Monitoring of Bridge Scour' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration is still active, output and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Aquacleansing installation of FO sensors in sewer tunnels - JMS |
| Organisation | Aqua cleansing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | installation of FO sensors in sewer tunnels |
| Collaborator Contribution | installation of FO sensors in sewer tunnels |
| Impact | installation of FO sensors in sewer tunnels |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Arup |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles. |
| Impact | Development of strategies and implementation of sensing in piles. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Asset management - Zhenglin Liang |
| Organisation | Herefordshire Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Asset management |
| Collaborator Contribution | Asset management |
| Impact | Asset management |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Asset management methodology to support organisational objectives |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Organisations responsible for infrastructure assets must understand the importance that asset information has to achieving their organisational objectives. Despite the potential benefits of effective information management to optimise digital opportunity, many organisations still struggle to identify what information should be collected to support the efficient management of assets throughout their whole life. Asset-related information not collected in alignment to organisational requirements can restrict the performance of capital investment decisions, risk management and operational performance throughout the whole life of the asset and ultimately impact productivity. Standards such as the PAS 1192 series and ISO 19650 describe the approach that organisations should take to define their asset information requirements (AIR) and the asset information model (AIM). The AIR should be informed by the organisational information requirements (OIR), which in turn is defined based on organisation objectives. However, the standards do not prescribe how this should be achieved and what processes should be used. CSIC researchers have developed a top-down methodology that supports the development of AIR in relation to OIR and addresses the disconnect between the PAS/ISO BIM-related standards and asset management standard ISO 55000. The novel aspect of this approach is the development of Functional Information Requirements (FIR) to bridge the gap between the OIR and the AIR. This is achieved by identifying and understanding the 'functions' of the asset systems that help address or have an impact on the OIR, to then identify the assets that form each function. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The methodology is currently being tested within industry as part of a CSIC secondment project with a member of the Asset Management Team from CSIC Industry Partner, Jacobs. The Asset Management Team is supporting Network Rail in delivering the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) - a major railway enhancement to improve connectivity between York and Manchester. TRU involves upgrading existing assets and installation of new assets to deliver a railway that will leave a lasting legacy. Exploring the benefits, challenges and opportunities of the methodology for Network Rail facilitates the longer-term possibility for a digital twin of the TRU, which would require whole-life data collection and management from the starting point of the programme and throughout design, construction, operation and integration. A wide range of Network Rail strategic documents were collated to identify organisational objectives. In order to reduce time required to read large volumes of text, an algorithm-based tool using datamining techniques was developed to search the text and identify locations of organisational objectives. More than 60 objectives were sense checked and put into the following categories: operational; reputational; customer; financial; environmental; and health and safety. For the purpose of testing the methodology within the secondment timeframe of four months, one organisational objective was selected: improve customer satisfaction. The top-down methodology creates a two-way line of sight from organisational objectives to asset requirements with functional requirements located between the two. A sample of FIR and AIR aligned to the identified organisational objective was captured. This approach helped deconstruct siloed structures familiar to many organisations and enables a systems perspective. A seven-step process provides a rigorous methodology and holistic approach capturing interfaces between asset disciplines and types - see the framework opposite. The methodology clarifies why an organisation needs specific asset information, which ensures data collected has a clear purpose making it possible to optimise value. Being able to classify data is particularly helpful in the context of the UK government's commitment to achieving net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 making the carbon cost of data a consideration. It also enables classification and curation of data throughout the whole life of the asset, making data accessible to any asset manager and operator. Establishing a'golden thread'of valued information offers insight, it enables better decision-making and safeguards an organisation against the consequences of bad decisions. |
| Impact | A series of workshops were organised for a number of senior Network Rail representatives to explore the methodology, test the framework and identify its value in relation to the TRU Programme and Network Rail. To ensure the framework's user accessibility and avoid the necessity of referring to spreadsheets of information, CSIC and Jacobs developed a web app streamlining the three-layer framework process. The web app helped record information requirements during the workshop and was developed with a view to being used throughout Network Rail's TRU upgrade programme, and potentially be applied to future projects and programmes. Feedback about the framework from attendees was very positive and recognised the added value and business case to Network Rail from curating data for future use and whole-life operation. Network Rail recognised the potential value of applying an information management framework to support organisational objectives. Key benefits of the framework Benefits of applying this methodology include: • Identifying gaps in information capture • Establishing line of sight from asset information to organisational objectives • Providing holistic process capturing interfaces between asset disciplines/types • Allowing better decision-making to optimise performance and manage risk throughout the whole life of the asset. In addition, two applications have been created as part of the secondment project which can be used by all collaborating partners - Jacobs, Network Rail and CSIC - on future projects. Our infrastructure assets are required to give service over a long period of time and existing assets form the greatest part of the UK's total infrastructure; each year in this country we add just 0.5 per cent to the capital value of the assets we have inherited1 . Having a line of sight from asset information to organisational objectives enables an organisation to be agile if circumstances, such as extreme weather events and the consequences of climate change, require organisational objectives to change. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Atkins - LB |
| Organisation | WS Atkins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Impact | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Atkins - PTK |
| Organisation | WS Atkins |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridges |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridges |
| Impact | Staffordshire Alliance Bridges |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Automating concrete construction: digital processes for whole-life sustainability and productivity |
| Organisation | University of Bath |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigators are collaborating with colleagues from the Universities of Bath and Dundee to drive a new culture in the construction industry to improve whole-life sustainability and productivity. CSIC is a project partner and Director Dr Jennifer Schooling chairs the steering group. Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) is one of four research and development projects funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund 'Transforming Construction'. The three-year project will address the core aims of the programme: designing and managing buildings through digitally enabled simulation and constructing quality buildings through offsite manufacturing approaches. ACORN aims to create a culture that takes a holistic approach to the manufacture, assembly, reuse and deconstruction of concrete buildings. This will lead to a healthier, safer built environment and a culture that is built on the concept of using enough material, and no more. The challenge Today, the widespread use of flat panel formwork for concrete leads to materially inefficient prismatic shapes for the beams, columns, and floor-slabs in buildings. This practice, which has been around since Roman times, is both architecturally constraining and a key driver behind the high embodied carbon emissions associated with concrete structures. As much as half of the concrete in a building could be saved, if only we approached the use of the material in a different way. Optimised concrete Concrete starts its life as a fluid and can therefore be used to form structures of almost any shape, given the right mould geometry. ACORN will capitalise on this material property to drive the minimisation of embodied carbon in new building structures. The team will create an end-to-end digital process to automate the manufacture of non-prismatic building elements, capitalising on the recent proliferation of affordable robotics and bring them into an industry ripe for a step-change in sustainability and productivity. Something as simple as allowing beams, columns and floor-slabs to have the shape they need to take load, rather than the shape they need to be easily formed, allows a complete rethink of the way material is used in buildings. Fabrication of concrete elements By moving the manufacture of structural concrete elements into a highly controlled factory environment, ACORN aims to ensure that buildings can become more sustainable and the construction industry more productive. Considerations such as the materials to be used, how reinforcement is placed efficiently, how to take into account whole-life value, and how to organise the design process to take advantage of the new possibilities of robotics, will all be considered within the sphere of the project. Demonstration building The key to transforming this conservative industry is to lead by example. One of the most exciting parts of the project, is the proposed construction of two bays of a full-size prototype office building, to be completed at the BRE Innovation Park in Watford. One bay will be left with an exposed structure to show the methods and techniques used in its manufacture, the other bay will be fitted-out as an office building, with roof, walls, façade and internal finishings, to show how the techniques translate into an architectural solution. The demonstration building will serve multiple purposes. On an academic level, it will contribute to the research agenda by acting as a living laboratory. Embedded sensors will collect and share useful live data about how the building is performing structurally, as well as what loads the different parts are carrying. The BRE Innovation Park is visited by 20,000 people annually and data will also be collected from those visitors in user surveys, to evaluate the new appearance. The building's eventual deconstruction will also be an opportunity to verify how the whole-life value drivers for automation perform in reality. Benefits The ACORN project is expected to produce a number of benefits. Reducing reliance on concrete will have a positive environmental effect - construction accounts for nearly half of the UK's carbon emissions and concrete alone for five per cent of global CO2 emissions. There is also huge cost-saving potential - ACORN's research has identified close to £4bn in cost savings for UK construction per annum, that would arise directly from better consideration of material use. Globally, a mere one per cent reduction in construction cost would save $100bn annually. ACORN's focus on automated manufacturing and digital processes to reduce both fabrication and build time are key parts in realising better value. The project will benefit from the contributions of 12 industry partners, including architects, engineers and building contractors, who will work alongside the ACORN team to ensure outputs will bring value to industry. The professions will also benefit with architects able to explore a new form of construction; engineers gaining insights into the real loads such structures have to carry during their lifetime; and contractors having the tools they need to increase quality control, productivity and fabrication time, while de-risking the construction site. ACORN is tackling the UK government's Construction 2025 targets head-on. By automating construction, moving it off-site, and developing a culture of using just enough material, and no more, the project will lower costs, reduce delivery times and dramatically reduce carbon emissions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Automating concrete construction: digital processes for whole-life sustainability and productivity |
| Organisation | University of Dundee |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | CSIC Investigators are collaborating with colleagues from the Universities of Bath and Dundee to drive a new culture in the construction industry to improve whole-life sustainability and productivity. CSIC is a project partner and Director Dr Jennifer Schooling chairs the steering group. Automating Concrete Construction (ACORN) is one of four research and development projects funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) under the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund 'Transforming Construction'. The three-year project will address the core aims of the programme: designing and managing buildings through digitally enabled simulation and constructing quality buildings through offsite manufacturing approaches. ACORN aims to create a culture that takes a holistic approach to the manufacture, assembly, reuse and deconstruction of concrete buildings. This will lead to a healthier, safer built environment and a culture that is built on the concept of using enough material, and no more. The challenge Today, the widespread use of flat panel formwork for concrete leads to materially inefficient prismatic shapes for the beams, columns, and floor-slabs in buildings. This practice, which has been around since Roman times, is both architecturally constraining and a key driver behind the high embodied carbon emissions associated with concrete structures. As much as half of the concrete in a building could be saved, if only we approached the use of the material in a different way. Optimised concrete Concrete starts its life as a fluid and can therefore be used to form structures of almost any shape, given the right mould geometry. ACORN will capitalise on this material property to drive the minimisation of embodied carbon in new building structures. The team will create an end-to-end digital process to automate the manufacture of non-prismatic building elements, capitalising on the recent proliferation of affordable robotics and bring them into an industry ripe for a step-change in sustainability and productivity. Something as simple as allowing beams, columns and floor-slabs to have the shape they need to take load, rather than the shape they need to be easily formed, allows a complete rethink of the way material is used in buildings. Fabrication of concrete elements By moving the manufacture of structural concrete elements into a highly controlled factory environment, ACORN aims to ensure that buildings can become more sustainable and the construction industry more productive. Considerations such as the materials to be used, how reinforcement is placed efficiently, how to take into account whole-life value, and how to organise the design process to take advantage of the new possibilities of robotics, will all be considered within the sphere of the project. Demonstration building The key to transforming this conservative industry is to lead by example. One of the most exciting parts of the project, is the proposed construction of two bays of a full-size prototype office building, to be completed at the BRE Innovation Park in Watford. One bay will be left with an exposed structure to show the methods and techniques used in its manufacture, the other bay will be fitted-out as an office building, with roof, walls, façade and internal finishings, to show how the techniques translate into an architectural solution. The demonstration building will serve multiple purposes. On an academic level, it will contribute to the research agenda by acting as a living laboratory. Embedded sensors will collect and share useful live data about how the building is performing structurally, as well as what loads the different parts are carrying. The BRE Innovation Park is visited by 20,000 people annually and data will also be collected from those visitors in user surveys, to evaluate the new appearance. The building's eventual deconstruction will also be an opportunity to verify how the whole-life value drivers for automation perform in reality. Benefits The ACORN project is expected to produce a number of benefits. Reducing reliance on concrete will have a positive environmental effect - construction accounts for nearly half of the UK's carbon emissions and concrete alone for five per cent of global CO2 emissions. There is also huge cost-saving potential - ACORN's research has identified close to £4bn in cost savings for UK construction per annum, that would arise directly from better consideration of material use. Globally, a mere one per cent reduction in construction cost would save $100bn annually. ACORN's focus on automated manufacturing and digital processes to reduce both fabrication and build time are key parts in realising better value. The project will benefit from the contributions of 12 industry partners, including architects, engineers and building contractors, who will work alongside the ACORN team to ensure outputs will bring value to industry. The professions will also benefit with architects able to explore a new form of construction; engineers gaining insights into the real loads such structures have to carry during their lifetime; and contractors having the tools they need to increase quality control, productivity and fabrication time, while de-risking the construction site. ACORN is tackling the UK government's Construction 2025 targets head-on. By automating construction, moving it off-site, and developing a culture of using just enough material, and no more, the project will lower costs, reduce delivery times and dramatically reduce carbon emissions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | BAM Nuttall - Development of rockfall early warning system for rail PK |
| Organisation | BAM Nuttall |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of rockfall early warning system for rail |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of rockfall early warning system for rail |
| Impact | Development of rockfall early warning system for rail |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | BP - AS |
| Organisation | BP (British Petroleum) |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Improving reservoir management using MEMS sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Improving reservoir management using MEMS sensors |
| Impact | Improving reservoir management using MEMS sensors |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Bechtel - PTK |
| Organisation | Bechtel Corporation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | HS2 Excavation monitoring of heave |
| Collaborator Contribution | HS2 Excavation monitoring of heave |
| Impact | HS2 Excavation monitoring of heave |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Beijing Information Sci & Techn University - DC |
| Organisation | Beijing Information Science & Technology University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | To supply low cost fibre analyser for field deployment |
| Collaborator Contribution | To supply low cost fibre analyser for field deployment |
| Impact | To supply low cost fibre analyser for field deployment |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Beijing Information Science & Technology University - PK |
| Organisation | Beijing Information Science & Technology University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of mini-BISTU analyser |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of mini-BISTU analyser |
| Impact | Development of mini-BISTU analyser |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Bentley, Topcon, Redbite - QL |
| Organisation | Bentley Systems UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Bentley, Topcon, Redbite - QL |
| Organisation | RedBite Solutions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Bentley, Topcon, Redbite - QL |
| Organisation | Topcon |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Berkeley University - NdB |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Testing of trial piles |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing of trial piles |
| Impact | Testing of trial piles |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | British Geological Survey - AB |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London |
| Impact | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | British Geological Survey and University of California Berkeley |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-published 2 journal articles and presented at 3 conferences. Large scale numerical modelling of shallow ground temperatures. Won a joint CMMI-NSF proposal with £450K per university partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | BGS provided geological and hydro-geological models at urban scale and UC Berkeley helped with the finite element modelling |
| Impact | New CMMI-EPSRC grant (EP/T019425/1) is a direct outcome of this collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | British Geological Survey and University of California Berkeley |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Department | Civil and Environmental Engineering |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-published 2 journal articles and presented at 3 conferences. Large scale numerical modelling of shallow ground temperatures. Won a joint CMMI-NSF proposal with £450K per university partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | BGS provided geological and hydro-geological models at urban scale and UC Berkeley helped with the finite element modelling |
| Impact | New CMMI-EPSRC grant (EP/T019425/1) is a direct outcome of this collaboration. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Brookfield Multiplex Construction Europe - CK |
| Organisation | Brookfield |
| Department | Multiplex Construction Europe ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower |
| Collaborator Contribution | Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower |
| Impact | Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Brookfield Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd no August 2016 to February 2018 Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower - Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Organisation | Brookfield |
| Department | Multiplex Construction Europe ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Brookfield Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd no August 2016 to February 2018 Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower |
| Collaborator Contribution | Brookfield Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd no August 2016 to February 2018 Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower |
| Impact | Brookfield Multiplex Construction Europe Ltd no August 2016 to February 2018 Axial shortening monitoring of tall residential tower |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Buro Happold - AKNP |
| Organisation | BuroHappold Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Futureproofing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Futureproofing |
| Impact | Futureproofing |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | CENTRIFUGE MODELLING OF THE BEHAVIOUR OF STEEL SHEET PILE WALLS UNDER SEISMIC ACTIONS |
| Organisation | ArcelorMittal |
| Country | Luxembourg |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Carried out experimental work to validate analytical and computational methods for the seismic design of tied back SSP walls in port facilities and to develop guidelines to be included in codes and regulations. In particular, developed equipment and carried out centrifuge tests to: (i) investigate the influence of different subsoil conditions and structural configurations on the seismic behaviour of SSP walls, (ii) identify the plastic mechanisms actually occurring in the soil-wall-anchor system, and the critical acceleration associated to each mechanism and (iii) provide benchmark data for validation of theoretical methods for computing the critical acceleration of the wall, based on limit analysis and/or limit equilibrium approaches, and numerical modelling. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided background information on steel production and characterization, results from internal research project on numerical modelling of Seismic Behaviour of Anchored Steel Sheet Pile (A-SSP) Quay Walls, and on Effects of Steel Grade Properties on Seismic Resistance of Steel Sheet Piles. All related real projects documents and information (i.e.: tender documents, drawings, soil conditions ) |
| Impact | Caputo, G.V., Conti, R., Viggiani, G.M.B., Prüm, C. (2021) Improved Method for the Seismic Design of Anchored Steel Sheet Pile Walls. Journal of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering, 147 (2), DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)GT.1943-5606.0002429 Morigi, M., Conti, R., Viggiani, G.M.B., Tamagnini, C. (2019) A numerical study on the seismic behaviour of cantilever embedded retaining walls in saturated sand. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 2019, pp. 4030-4037. Caputo, V.G., Conti, R., Viggiani, G.M.B., Prüm, C.(2019) Theoretical framework for the seismic design of anchored steel sheet pile walls. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions- Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 2019, pp. 1604-1611. Fusco, A., Viggiani, G.M.B., Madabhushi, S.P.G., Caputo, G., Conti, R., Prüm, C.(2019). Physical modelling of anchored steel sheet pile walls under seismic actions. Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions- Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering, 2019, pp. 2502-2509. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | CERN - PTK |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN - Other |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Monitoring of LHC Tunnels |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of LHC Tunnels |
| Impact | Monitoring of LHC Tunnels |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | CERN AEY |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fibre Optic |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fibre Optic |
| Impact | Fibre Optic |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | CH2M - PTK |
| Organisation | CH2M HILL |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | HS2 Pile monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | HS2 Pile monitoring |
| Impact | HS2 Pile monitoring |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | CH2MHil(Halcrow) - PTK |
| Organisation | CH2M HILL |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | PO Tunnel |
| Collaborator Contribution | PO Tunnel |
| Impact | PO Tunnel |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | CSIC Follow-On Match Funding HS2 |
| Organisation | High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Funding committed to CSIC for future collaboration. Innovation plays an essential part in the delivery of HS2, driving the adoption of new technologies, techniques and practices within the largest civil engineering project in Europe. To deliver this strategy we are building an ecosystem of partners from across academia, research and industry, to create an Innovation Legacy for the UK. HS2 aims to identify, test and implement new ideas via our partners and supply chain. Therefore, Innovation at HS2 would like to continue our relationship with the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and further support the development of the following key areas of innovation focus. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC Follow-On Match Funding-Geobear |
| Organisation | Geobear |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Funding committed to CSIC for future collaboration. We would like to create technology on using sensing and artificial intelligence to identify ground movements and monitor stabilisation to add further value to the industry. We are also keen on continued cooperation regarding real time monitoring of assets through fibre optics and other ground breaking technologies. So far the association with CSIC has increased our credibility on the market place and helped with certain client discussions to increase credibility. We have been discussing the possibility of using fibre optics for real time monitoring on a few occasions. Our representatives have received education, contacts and ideas in events. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC Formal Partner-BKwai |
| Organisation | BKwai |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Formal CSIC partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet know |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC Formal Partner-FDH Infrastructure Services |
| Organisation | FDH Infrastructure Services |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Formal CSIC partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet know |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CSIC Formal Partner-Royal Haskoning DHV UK |
| Organisation | Royal HaskoningDHV |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Formal CSIC partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above |
| Impact | Not yet know |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CSIC Formal Partner-Sintela |
| Organisation | Sintela |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Formal CSIC Partner |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Deep foundation automatic anomaly detection and visualisation system |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The proposed research aims to develop an automated pile integrity interpretation framework that uses thermal distributed fibre optic (FO) methodology, finite element modelling and machine learning techniques. In the first and second stages, using a full-scale well controlled laboratorytest, the project will firstly develop a system to visualise the pile construction process using collected date and an effective interpretation method for assessing the structural integrity of the pile. Then, machine leaning techniques will be used to recognise the defect patterns within the pile to establish a rapid anomaly response system. An automatic defect detection prototype (software) will be developed at the end of the first stage which allows automatic defection including the location of the defect and its size using minimal human input. In the third stage, the project aims to study the complex strain and temperature coupling effect for early age concrete. The study outcomes will not only help to improve the capability of the anomaly detection system, but will enable the whole-life performance assessment of the concrete piles and hence a benchmark for pile re-use in future. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Deep foundation automatic anomaly detection and visualisation system |
| Organisation | Skanska UK Ltd |
| Department | Cementation Skanska |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The proposed research aims to develop an automated pile integrity interpretation framework that uses thermal distributed fibre optic (FO) methodology, finite element modelling and machine learning techniques. In the first and second stages, using a full-scale well controlled laboratorytest, the project will firstly develop a system to visualise the pile construction process using collected date and an effective interpretation method for assessing the structural integrity of the pile. Then, machine leaning techniques will be used to recognise the defect patterns within the pile to establish a rapid anomaly response system. An automatic defect detection prototype (software) will be developed at the end of the first stage which allows automatic defection including the location of the defect and its size using minimal human input. In the third stage, the project aims to study the complex strain and temperature coupling effect for early age concrete. The study outcomes will not only help to improve the capability of the anomaly detection system, but will enable the whole-life performance assessment of the concrete piles and hence a benchmark for pile re-use in future. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Digital Twins of Urban Farms |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The objective of seeking CSIC funding is to maximize fully the achievements-to-date on the digital twin of the world's first underground farm by delivering it at a high TRL and testing it for usability and reproducibility in a collaboration between CSIC and the Research Software Engineers at Turing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Digital Twins of Urban Farms |
| Organisation | Growing Underground |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The objective of seeking CSIC funding is to maximize fully the achievements-to-date on the digital twin of the world's first underground farm by delivering it at a high TRL and testing it for usability and reproducibility in a collaboration between CSIC and the Research Software Engineers at Turing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Digital Twins of Urban Farms |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The objective of seeking CSIC funding is to maximize fully the achievements-to-date on the digital twin of the world's first underground farm by delivering it at a high TRL and testing it for usability and reproducibility in a collaboration between CSIC and the Research Software Engineers at Turing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Export cable stability for offshore wind turbine arrays |
| Organisation | Cura Analytica |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | This project will focus on alleviating the potential risk of over-estimating wind farm export cable fatigue problems via three activities: (i) Assess experimentally the validity of various models for pipeline (or cable) breakout in sands under combined loading via 1g laboratory testing (delivered by post-doc and PI Stanier & Co-I Viggiani); (ii) Evaluate the impact of varying models for cable restraint on export cable fatigue using finite element methods (delivered by MRes student and PI Stanier & Co-I Viggiani); and (iii) Develop a prototype system for cable fatigue monitoring using fibre optic technologies that could potentially be deployed in the field (delivered by post-doc and PI Stanier & Co-I Viggiani). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Expert in subsea cable fatigue design. Will provide access to commercial Orcaflex license for FE simulations. Key local contact for the offshore wind consultancy sector. |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Inside concrete - distributed spatial and temporal fibre optic sensing |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 1. To validate and calibrate distributed optical fibre sensing systems as accurate measures of temporal and spatial temperature and strain in fresh and hardened concrete. 2. To explore how distributed sensor indicators could be used as early age predictive measures for conventional ordinary Portland cement and more sustainable low-carbon mixes. Better predictors of concrete strength reduce uncertainty, enhance productivity and improve efficiency. The insight could also be used to adapt manufacturing processes and to promote acceptance of low carbon cementitious elements. 3. To determine the feasibility of a back-scattering spectrometer based system for monitoring internal concrete temperature and strain. 4. To undertake a scoping study of the added value of 'Inside concrete' fibre optic sensing during the fresh state curing process and consider how this might be extrapolated across different |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Inside concrete - distributed spatial and temporal fibre optic sensing |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | 1. To validate and calibrate distributed optical fibre sensing systems as accurate measures of temporal and spatial temperature and strain in fresh and hardened concrete. 2. To explore how distributed sensor indicators could be used as early age predictive measures for conventional ordinary Portland cement and more sustainable low-carbon mixes. Better predictors of concrete strength reduce uncertainty, enhance productivity and improve efficiency. The insight could also be used to adapt manufacturing processes and to promote acceptance of low carbon cementitious elements. 3. To determine the feasibility of a back-scattering spectrometer based system for monitoring internal concrete temperature and strain. 4. To undertake a scoping study of the added value of 'Inside concrete' fibre optic sensing during the fresh state curing process and consider how this might be extrapolated across different |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Modular design for underground construction |
| Organisation | Laing O'Rourke |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The goal of this proposal is to revolutionise the approach to delivery of large underground basements with tools for design and implementation of modular off-site construction for increased productivity, faster completion and reduced carbon. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Modular design for underground construction |
| Organisation | Smith and Wallwork |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The goal of this proposal is to revolutionise the approach to delivery of large underground basements with tools for design and implementation of modular off-site construction for increased productivity, faster completion and reduced carbon. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet know |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Whole life carbon costing in the context of ACORN - and beyond |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | - Identify/Develop techniques to quantify the whole-life cost and carbon impact of the new methods of construction. - Evaluate existing carbon-counting tools available to infrastructure and construction industry, to determine utility to the industry in e.g. assessing most appropriate interventions on existing assets wrt carbon - Create guidance for industry in terms of 'getting the basics right' with respect to carbon assessment and minimising CO2 emissions and resource use |
| Collaborator Contribution | LOR Access to factory and construction sites McKinsey Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Costain Access to construction sites Qualisflow Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Arup Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Whole life carbon costing in the context of ACORN - and beyond |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | - Identify/Develop techniques to quantify the whole-life cost and carbon impact of the new methods of construction. - Evaluate existing carbon-counting tools available to infrastructure and construction industry, to determine utility to the industry in e.g. assessing most appropriate interventions on existing assets wrt carbon - Create guidance for industry in terms of 'getting the basics right' with respect to carbon assessment and minimising CO2 emissions and resource use |
| Collaborator Contribution | LOR Access to factory and construction sites McKinsey Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Costain Access to construction sites Qualisflow Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Arup Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Whole life carbon costing in the context of ACORN - and beyond |
| Organisation | Laing O'Rourke |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | - Identify/Develop techniques to quantify the whole-life cost and carbon impact of the new methods of construction. - Evaluate existing carbon-counting tools available to infrastructure and construction industry, to determine utility to the industry in e.g. assessing most appropriate interventions on existing assets wrt carbon - Create guidance for industry in terms of 'getting the basics right' with respect to carbon assessment and minimising CO2 emissions and resource use |
| Collaborator Contribution | LOR Access to factory and construction sites McKinsey Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Costain Access to construction sites Qualisflow Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Arup Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Whole life carbon costing in the context of ACORN - and beyond |
| Organisation | McKinsey & Company |
| Department | McKinsey & Company, UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | - Identify/Develop techniques to quantify the whole-life cost and carbon impact of the new methods of construction. - Evaluate existing carbon-counting tools available to infrastructure and construction industry, to determine utility to the industry in e.g. assessing most appropriate interventions on existing assets wrt carbon - Create guidance for industry in terms of 'getting the basics right' with respect to carbon assessment and minimising CO2 emissions and resource use |
| Collaborator Contribution | LOR Access to factory and construction sites McKinsey Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Costain Access to construction sites Qualisflow Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Arup Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC RA Funding Project - Whole life carbon costing in the context of ACORN - and beyond |
| Organisation | Qualisflow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | - Identify/Develop techniques to quantify the whole-life cost and carbon impact of the new methods of construction. - Evaluate existing carbon-counting tools available to infrastructure and construction industry, to determine utility to the industry in e.g. assessing most appropriate interventions on existing assets wrt carbon - Create guidance for industry in terms of 'getting the basics right' with respect to carbon assessment and minimising CO2 emissions and resource use |
| Collaborator Contribution | LOR Access to factory and construction sites McKinsey Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Costain Access to construction sites Qualisflow Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting Arup Advisor on process mapping and carbon accounting |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Cambridgeshire County Council - ES |
| Organisation | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Land use - transport /mobility |
| Collaborator Contribution | Land use - transport /mobility |
| Impact | Land use - transport /mobility |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Central Alliance |
| Organisation | Central Alliance |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Cumbrian bridge monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cumbrian bridge monitoring |
| Impact | Cumbrian bridge monitoring |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Centro - JT |
| Organisation | Centro plc |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Establishment of collaborative project on vehicle-based track condition monitoring, incl. supply of tram, access to depot facilities and support during installation of instrumentation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Establishment of collaborative project on vehicle-based track condition monitoring, incl. supply of tram, access to depot facilities and support during installation of instrumentation |
| Impact | Establishment of collaborative project on vehicle-based track condition monitoring, incl. supply of tram, access to depot facilities and support during installation of instrumentation |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Collaboration with University of Tokyo |
| Organisation | University of Tokyo |
| Department | Institute of Industrial Science |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | - Guest Professor at Ooka Lab, Institute of Industrial Science for 4 months (Sept-December 2015) supported by an invitational Fellowship by Japan Society of Promotion of Science. - Interacted with PhD students and staff on the following topics: uncertainty analysis, distributed energy systems, exergy analysis of building energy systems. - Since 2015, we have regular annual visits to each others labs |
| Collaborator Contribution | The Ooka Lab invited Cambridge PhD student Bryn Pickering for 2 week visit in December 2015. We have co-authored 2 peer-reviewed conference articles and 3 journal publications. From the B-bem project, PDRA Kathrin Menberg has been heavily involved in these collaborations. We have worked with University of Tokyo to carry out uncertainty analysis in the estimation of ground thermal properties for geo-energy systems. In turn- University of Tokyo helped us carry out exergy analysis of heat pump systems, which enabled us to have an improved understanding of system efficiencies. |
| Impact | 1. 2018 visiting researcher from U. of Tokyo hosted by Alan Turing Institute 2. Uncertainty Analysis: 2 journal articles in 2018 3. Exergy Analysis: 1 conference publication (2017), and 1 journal paper (2017). 4. Distributed Energy Systems: 1 conference publication in 2016. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Cornell University May-17 Laboratory scale pipeline testing - Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Organisation | Cornell University |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Cornell University May-17 Laboratory scale pipeline testing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Cornell University May-17 Laboratory scale pipeline testing |
| Impact | Cornell University May-17 Laboratory scale pipeline testing |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Costain - BIM - AKNP |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | BIM |
| Collaborator Contribution | BIM |
| Impact | BIM |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Costain - CK |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Tram track monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tram track monitoring |
| Impact | Tram track monitoring |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Costain - NdB |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Monitoring of light rail test track |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of light rail test track |
| Impact | Monitoring of light rail test track |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Costain - PTK |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Costain light rail track instrumentation with bend sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Costain light rail track instrumentation with bend sensors |
| Impact | Costain light rail track instrumentation with bend sensors |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Costain - PTK |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Various London Bridge monitoring projects at construction sites |
| Collaborator Contribution | Various London Bridge monitoring projects at construction sites |
| Impact | Various London Bridge monitoring projects at construction sites |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Costain AKNP |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | ICASE Project on Data-driven engineering for improving the performance of asset management |
| Collaborator Contribution | ICASE Project on Data-driven engineering for improving the performance of asset management |
| Impact | ICASE Project on Data-driven engineering for improving the performance of asset management |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Costain Computer vision for tunnel monitoring JMS |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Computer vision for tunnel monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Computer vision for tunnel monitoring |
| Impact | Computer vision for tunnel monitoring |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Costain light rail -testing of light railtrial |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design. |
| Impact | Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Counterest - MSA |
| Organisation | Counterest |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Working together on an article where we use their hardware/software |
| Collaborator Contribution | Working together on an article where we use their hardware/software |
| Impact | Working together on an article where we use their hardware/software |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Crossrail - CK |
| Organisation | Crossrail |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Post Office tunnel monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Post Office tunnel monitoring |
| Impact | Post Office tunnel monitoring |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Crossrail - MJD |
| Organisation | Crossrail |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Research on Settlement effects on masonry structures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research on Settlement effects on masonry structures |
| Impact | Research on Settlement effects on masonry structures |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Crossrail - PTK |
| Organisation | Crossrail |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Various shaft monitoring projects at construction sites |
| Collaborator Contribution | Various shaft monitoring projects at construction sites |
| Impact | Various shaft monitoring projects at construction sites |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct) Haris Alexakis |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct |
| Impact | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Data-centric bridge monitoring and assessment - Liam Butler |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Data-centric bridge monitoring and assessment |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data-centric bridge monitoring and assessment |
| Impact | Data-centric bridge monitoring and assessment |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Department for Transport, Local Transport, UK - ES |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Local transport planning |
| Collaborator Contribution | Local transport planning |
| Impact | Local transport planning |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Designing in data insights to improve customer experience at Gatwick Train Station |
| Organisation | Costain Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Jennifer Schooling and Costain working on secondment project Designing in data insights to improve customer experience at Gatwick Train Station |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Developing the supply chain to advance dynamic strain sensing |
| Organisation | FEBUS Optics |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Responding to industry call In a working group discussion at a CSIC event, industry partners raised the subject of sensing strain in structures and that current distributed fibre optic strain sensing technologies were too slow to capture dynamic events. There was a consensus that the ability to measure strain at a rate of 50Hz or more was needed to fulfil many dynamic applications, such as capturing traffic loading effects on bridges. However, achieving this goal would require development and application of new technology. CSIC has worked with French SME, FEBUS Optics1 to deliver this capability. Febus had developed a new generation of fast Brillouin fibre optic strain sensing systems, the FEBUS G1. FEBUS and CSIC discussed applying the technology for civil engineering applications, and the challenge was set to create a dynamic infrastructure sensing system. After six months of development, FEBUS met this challenge and demonstrated dynamic strain measurement at 50Hz over 1km in a fully-functioning system, the FEBUS G1D. This ability means vital performance data can be captured at sub-second rates instead of periodically sampling performance at longer time frames over several minutes. CSIC worked with Febus on minimum system requirements and specifications, and in late 2018, the FEBUS G1D was ready to leave the lab and be deployed in the field. First deployment on a CSIC project The FEBUS G1D was used as part of the rockfall early warning system developed by CSIC in a collaborative project with Network Rail to monitor Hooley Cutting: the steep cutting faces either side of a 170-year-old stretch of railway between London and Brighton. The FEBUS system was successfully used to monitor strain changes in a rockfall mesh in real time in order to capture potential rock debris accumulating in the mesh on the cutting (see Transforming infrastructure through smarter information). Key benefits of fibre optic sensing Optical fibre sensors can measure many infrastructure parameters, including strain, temperature, displacement, vibration, and, with some mechanical modifications, tilt and acceleration. For sensing requirements that need more than several hundred sensing points (for example embankments and rail track), optical fibre sensing also becomes the lowest cost solution. It eliminates the need for copper cable power cables or battery maintenance and is easy to install. This ability of distributed fibre optic sensing systems, such as the FEBUS G1, to provide spatially dense information while being simple to install means that fibre optic sensors are becoming an attractive alternative to electrical point sensors for infrastructure sensing. The system is commercially available and more than 30 FEBUS G1 systems have now been made and deployed around the world. Implications for whole-life monitoring The fibre optic sensor cables used by CSIC are identical to telecommunications optical fibre which has been used worldwide since the 1970s and 80s. They are made of silica which does not experience the same failure modes as electrical sensors and is one of the most environmentally stable compounds known; there is no corrosion when the sensors are exposed to humidity, nor do they suffer from electromigration ageing or copper embrittlement. They are also immune to electromagnetic fields present in high voltage environments such as rail. Corning Glass, a leading manufacturer of optical fibre recently published a white paper on their use, and in particular, the lifespan of the product. In the paper Corning have stated that there is "no 'theoretical lifetime' of optical fibres" and that "there is no industry accepted 'wear out' mechanism for optical fibre". They reported that it is "common for customers to report to Corning that trial fibres installed in the late 1970s or early 1980s are still in use today". Optical sensing systems which can last for the life of the asset being monitored make whole-life sensing a real option for asset management and can provide the data required to ensure the asset is fit for purpose over its entire lifetime. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | The system is commercially available and more than 30 FEBUS G1 systems have now been made and deployed around the world. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Developing toolkit for bridge maintenance - Zhenglin Liang |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Developing toolkit for bridge maintenance |
| Collaborator Contribution | Developing toolkit for bridge maintenance |
| Impact | Developing toolkit for bridge maintenance |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London - Asal Bidarmaghz |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London |
| Impact | Development of a 3D geological model of Greater London |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Diemount joint development of low cost FO sensors JMS |
| Organisation | Diemount GmbH |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | joint development of low cost FO sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | joint development of low cost FO sensors |
| Impact | joint development of low cost FO sensors |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change: next-generation tools for city planning and management |
| Organisation | Cambridgeshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The challenges for modern cities to deliver smart systems for its citizens are complex and cut across many traditional disciplines. CSIC's Digital Cities for Change project, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation and the Centre for Digital Built Britain, evaluates both the existing structures and systems of city and infrastructure management, and investigates how digital tools can help better decision-making within these areas. Understanding limitations of the current approach The planning, management and operation of assets, buildings and towns have traditionally operated in professional silos. Researchers are investigating the impact of these silos within city and infrastructure management and how this leads to departments following separate, and sometimes divergent, approaches to address common challenges. We live in an era of increasing digital abundance, but industry and city governments lack the tools to understand and interpret the data to support smarter decision-making processes and deliver best value from them. In order to deliver on the transformative potential of this digital revolution, we need built environment professionals who are trained in a broader range of disciplines and tools, bridging infrastructure and city management solutions and developing the opportunities presented by the digital economy. Working with local authorities The use of data has huge potential to help deliver social, economic and political goals for cities. Digital Cities for Change researchers have built a working partnership with Smart Cambridge, a programme supported by Connecting Cambridgeshire, which is led by Cambridgeshire County Council, and are using the city as a pilot. A workshop was held in December 2018 with o?cers from the council's transport, sustainability and planning departments to plan how digital technology and data can be used to support decisions and make improvements. The aim of the workshop was to understand the current activities addressing two of the council's policy goals; improving air quality and reducing congestion, including the use of data to support policy measures related to the goals and to explore future requirements. Researchers are also aiming to understand the possibilities for developing a digital twin prototype for the city which responds to imminent challenges and the delivery of the policy goals. Developing a new digital strategy The Digital Cities for Change team is now exploring the potential building blocks of a new digital strategy, with two key components: 1. A digital twin, combining traditional urban modelling techniques, new data sources and advanced data analytics, to support decision-making in di?erent sectors. 2. A new governance framework which will ensure successful implementation through linking planning, management and operation. The digital twin prototype will use technology and data to tackle air pollution and tra?c congestion. It will include recent trends of journeys to work in Cambridge, including how people of di?erent ages and employment status travel to work and how di?erent factors a?ect their travel. It will also explore future possible journeys to work based on transport investment, housing developments and how ?exible working and new technology may impact commuting. A web-based modelling platform will also visualise future development options and give people an opportunity for feedback. The governance aspect of the strategy will map stakeholders of the digital twin and their relationships to each other across government and private sectors. It will incorporate legislation and regulation, sharing and security. A crucial part of the governance will be citizen engagement - to connect the physical to the data and provide evidence that can motivate people to change their behaviour. This will involve talking to employees about ?exible working and community co-working spaces. The vision for the city-level strategy The Cambridge digital twin prototype, along with the governance recommendations is under development, with an initial version discussed with colleagues at Smart Cambridge in April. The project team is now planning to re?ne the strategy and develop the tool to explore di?erent aspects of the collection, processing and use of data to improve various city functions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Nochta, T., Wan, L., Schooling, J. M. et al. (2019). Digitalisation for smarter cities: Moving from a static to a dynamic view. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction Journal, https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001. www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wan, L. (2019). Evidence-informed decisionmaking in multi-stakeholder settings: The case of city digital twins for planning and management. Proceedings of the Data for Policy Conference, 11-12 June 2019, University College London, UK. zenodo.org/record/2798858#.XV0MmXvTXQy Wan, L., Nochta, T., Schooling, J.M. (2019). Developing A City-level Digital Twin - Propositions and A Case Study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), 8-10 July 2019, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291545 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wahby, N. (2019). On the Governance of City Digital Twins - Insights from the Cambridge Case Study. Working paper, published in the CDBB publication series. Series No: CDBB_WP_012. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293984 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change: next-generation tools for city planning and management |
| Organisation | Digital Built Britain |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The challenges for modern cities to deliver smart systems for its citizens are complex and cut across many traditional disciplines. CSIC's Digital Cities for Change project, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation and the Centre for Digital Built Britain, evaluates both the existing structures and systems of city and infrastructure management, and investigates how digital tools can help better decision-making within these areas. Understanding limitations of the current approach The planning, management and operation of assets, buildings and towns have traditionally operated in professional silos. Researchers are investigating the impact of these silos within city and infrastructure management and how this leads to departments following separate, and sometimes divergent, approaches to address common challenges. We live in an era of increasing digital abundance, but industry and city governments lack the tools to understand and interpret the data to support smarter decision-making processes and deliver best value from them. In order to deliver on the transformative potential of this digital revolution, we need built environment professionals who are trained in a broader range of disciplines and tools, bridging infrastructure and city management solutions and developing the opportunities presented by the digital economy. Working with local authorities The use of data has huge potential to help deliver social, economic and political goals for cities. Digital Cities for Change researchers have built a working partnership with Smart Cambridge, a programme supported by Connecting Cambridgeshire, which is led by Cambridgeshire County Council, and are using the city as a pilot. A workshop was held in December 2018 with o?cers from the council's transport, sustainability and planning departments to plan how digital technology and data can be used to support decisions and make improvements. The aim of the workshop was to understand the current activities addressing two of the council's policy goals; improving air quality and reducing congestion, including the use of data to support policy measures related to the goals and to explore future requirements. Researchers are also aiming to understand the possibilities for developing a digital twin prototype for the city which responds to imminent challenges and the delivery of the policy goals. Developing a new digital strategy The Digital Cities for Change team is now exploring the potential building blocks of a new digital strategy, with two key components: 1. A digital twin, combining traditional urban modelling techniques, new data sources and advanced data analytics, to support decision-making in di?erent sectors. 2. A new governance framework which will ensure successful implementation through linking planning, management and operation. The digital twin prototype will use technology and data to tackle air pollution and tra?c congestion. It will include recent trends of journeys to work in Cambridge, including how people of di?erent ages and employment status travel to work and how di?erent factors a?ect their travel. It will also explore future possible journeys to work based on transport investment, housing developments and how ?exible working and new technology may impact commuting. A web-based modelling platform will also visualise future development options and give people an opportunity for feedback. The governance aspect of the strategy will map stakeholders of the digital twin and their relationships to each other across government and private sectors. It will incorporate legislation and regulation, sharing and security. A crucial part of the governance will be citizen engagement - to connect the physical to the data and provide evidence that can motivate people to change their behaviour. This will involve talking to employees about ?exible working and community co-working spaces. The vision for the city-level strategy The Cambridge digital twin prototype, along with the governance recommendations is under development, with an initial version discussed with colleagues at Smart Cambridge in April. The project team is now planning to re?ne the strategy and develop the tool to explore di?erent aspects of the collection, processing and use of data to improve various city functions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Nochta, T., Wan, L., Schooling, J. M. et al. (2019). Digitalisation for smarter cities: Moving from a static to a dynamic view. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction Journal, https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001. www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wan, L. (2019). Evidence-informed decisionmaking in multi-stakeholder settings: The case of city digital twins for planning and management. Proceedings of the Data for Policy Conference, 11-12 June 2019, University College London, UK. zenodo.org/record/2798858#.XV0MmXvTXQy Wan, L., Nochta, T., Schooling, J.M. (2019). Developing A City-level Digital Twin - Propositions and A Case Study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), 8-10 July 2019, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291545 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wahby, N. (2019). On the Governance of City Digital Twins - Insights from the Cambridge Case Study. Working paper, published in the CDBB publication series. Series No: CDBB_WP_012. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293984 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change: next-generation tools for city planning and management |
| Organisation | Ove Arup Foundation |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The challenges for modern cities to deliver smart systems for its citizens are complex and cut across many traditional disciplines. CSIC's Digital Cities for Change project, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation and the Centre for Digital Built Britain, evaluates both the existing structures and systems of city and infrastructure management, and investigates how digital tools can help better decision-making within these areas. Understanding limitations of the current approach The planning, management and operation of assets, buildings and towns have traditionally operated in professional silos. Researchers are investigating the impact of these silos within city and infrastructure management and how this leads to departments following separate, and sometimes divergent, approaches to address common challenges. We live in an era of increasing digital abundance, but industry and city governments lack the tools to understand and interpret the data to support smarter decision-making processes and deliver best value from them. In order to deliver on the transformative potential of this digital revolution, we need built environment professionals who are trained in a broader range of disciplines and tools, bridging infrastructure and city management solutions and developing the opportunities presented by the digital economy. Working with local authorities The use of data has huge potential to help deliver social, economic and political goals for cities. Digital Cities for Change researchers have built a working partnership with Smart Cambridge, a programme supported by Connecting Cambridgeshire, which is led by Cambridgeshire County Council, and are using the city as a pilot. A workshop was held in December 2018 with o?cers from the council's transport, sustainability and planning departments to plan how digital technology and data can be used to support decisions and make improvements. The aim of the workshop was to understand the current activities addressing two of the council's policy goals; improving air quality and reducing congestion, including the use of data to support policy measures related to the goals and to explore future requirements. Researchers are also aiming to understand the possibilities for developing a digital twin prototype for the city which responds to imminent challenges and the delivery of the policy goals. Developing a new digital strategy The Digital Cities for Change team is now exploring the potential building blocks of a new digital strategy, with two key components: 1. A digital twin, combining traditional urban modelling techniques, new data sources and advanced data analytics, to support decision-making in di?erent sectors. 2. A new governance framework which will ensure successful implementation through linking planning, management and operation. The digital twin prototype will use technology and data to tackle air pollution and tra?c congestion. It will include recent trends of journeys to work in Cambridge, including how people of di?erent ages and employment status travel to work and how di?erent factors a?ect their travel. It will also explore future possible journeys to work based on transport investment, housing developments and how ?exible working and new technology may impact commuting. A web-based modelling platform will also visualise future development options and give people an opportunity for feedback. The governance aspect of the strategy will map stakeholders of the digital twin and their relationships to each other across government and private sectors. It will incorporate legislation and regulation, sharing and security. A crucial part of the governance will be citizen engagement - to connect the physical to the data and provide evidence that can motivate people to change their behaviour. This will involve talking to employees about ?exible working and community co-working spaces. The vision for the city-level strategy The Cambridge digital twin prototype, along with the governance recommendations is under development, with an initial version discussed with colleagues at Smart Cambridge in April. The project team is now planning to re?ne the strategy and develop the tool to explore di?erent aspects of the collection, processing and use of data to improve various city functions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Nochta, T., Wan, L., Schooling, J. M. et al. (2019). Digitalisation for smarter cities: Moving from a static to a dynamic view. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction Journal, https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001. www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wan, L. (2019). Evidence-informed decisionmaking in multi-stakeholder settings: The case of city digital twins for planning and management. Proceedings of the Data for Policy Conference, 11-12 June 2019, University College London, UK. zenodo.org/record/2798858#.XV0MmXvTXQy Wan, L., Nochta, T., Schooling, J.M. (2019). Developing A City-level Digital Twin - Propositions and A Case Study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), 8-10 July 2019, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291545 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wahby, N. (2019). On the Governance of City Digital Twins - Insights from the Cambridge Case Study. Working paper, published in the CDBB publication series. Series No: CDBB_WP_012. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293984 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change: next-generation tools for city planning and management |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Department of Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The challenges for modern cities to deliver smart systems for its citizens are complex and cut across many traditional disciplines. CSIC's Digital Cities for Change project, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation and the Centre for Digital Built Britain, evaluates both the existing structures and systems of city and infrastructure management, and investigates how digital tools can help better decision-making within these areas. Understanding limitations of the current approach The planning, management and operation of assets, buildings and towns have traditionally operated in professional silos. Researchers are investigating the impact of these silos within city and infrastructure management and how this leads to departments following separate, and sometimes divergent, approaches to address common challenges. We live in an era of increasing digital abundance, but industry and city governments lack the tools to understand and interpret the data to support smarter decision-making processes and deliver best value from them. In order to deliver on the transformative potential of this digital revolution, we need built environment professionals who are trained in a broader range of disciplines and tools, bridging infrastructure and city management solutions and developing the opportunities presented by the digital economy. Working with local authorities The use of data has huge potential to help deliver social, economic and political goals for cities. Digital Cities for Change researchers have built a working partnership with Smart Cambridge, a programme supported by Connecting Cambridgeshire, which is led by Cambridgeshire County Council, and are using the city as a pilot. A workshop was held in December 2018 with o?cers from the council's transport, sustainability and planning departments to plan how digital technology and data can be used to support decisions and make improvements. The aim of the workshop was to understand the current activities addressing two of the council's policy goals; improving air quality and reducing congestion, including the use of data to support policy measures related to the goals and to explore future requirements. Researchers are also aiming to understand the possibilities for developing a digital twin prototype for the city which responds to imminent challenges and the delivery of the policy goals. Developing a new digital strategy The Digital Cities for Change team is now exploring the potential building blocks of a new digital strategy, with two key components: 1. A digital twin, combining traditional urban modelling techniques, new data sources and advanced data analytics, to support decision-making in di?erent sectors. 2. A new governance framework which will ensure successful implementation through linking planning, management and operation. The digital twin prototype will use technology and data to tackle air pollution and tra?c congestion. It will include recent trends of journeys to work in Cambridge, including how people of di?erent ages and employment status travel to work and how di?erent factors a?ect their travel. It will also explore future possible journeys to work based on transport investment, housing developments and how ?exible working and new technology may impact commuting. A web-based modelling platform will also visualise future development options and give people an opportunity for feedback. The governance aspect of the strategy will map stakeholders of the digital twin and their relationships to each other across government and private sectors. It will incorporate legislation and regulation, sharing and security. A crucial part of the governance will be citizen engagement - to connect the physical to the data and provide evidence that can motivate people to change their behaviour. This will involve talking to employees about ?exible working and community co-working spaces. The vision for the city-level strategy The Cambridge digital twin prototype, along with the governance recommendations is under development, with an initial version discussed with colleagues at Smart Cambridge in April. The project team is now planning to re?ne the strategy and develop the tool to explore di?erent aspects of the collection, processing and use of data to improve various city functions. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Nochta, T., Wan, L., Schooling, J. M. et al. (2019). Digitalisation for smarter cities: Moving from a static to a dynamic view. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Smart Infrastructure and Construction Journal, https://doi.org/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001. www.icevirtuallibrary.com/doi/abs/10.1680/jsmic.19.00001 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wan, L. (2019). Evidence-informed decisionmaking in multi-stakeholder settings: The case of city digital twins for planning and management. Proceedings of the Data for Policy Conference, 11-12 June 2019, University College London, UK. zenodo.org/record/2798858#.XV0MmXvTXQy Wan, L., Nochta, T., Schooling, J.M. (2019). Developing A City-level Digital Twin - Propositions and A Case Study. Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC), 8-10 July 2019, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/291545 Nochta, T., Badstuber, N.E., Wahby, N. (2019). On the Governance of City Digital Twins - Insights from the Cambridge Case Study. Working paper, published in the CDBB publication series. Series No: CDBB_WP_012. www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/293984 |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Dragados - MSA |
| Organisation | Dragados |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Planning for monitoring of Mansion House |
| Collaborator Contribution | Planning for monitoring of Mansion House and |
| Impact | Planning for monitoring of Mansion House and |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge (Centre for Digital Built Britain Mini-projects Programme 2017-18) Quichen Lu |
| Organisation | Digital Built Britain |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge (Centre for Digital Built Britain Mini-projects Programme 2017-18) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge (Centre for Digital Built Britain Mini-projects Programme 2017-18) |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge (Centre for Digital Built Britain Mini-projects Programme 2017-18) |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge - Quichen Lu |
| Organisation | Bentley Motors |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge - Quichen Lu |
| Organisation | RedBite Solutions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge - Quichen Lu |
| Organisation | Topcon |
| Country | Japan |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Impact | Dynamic digital twin with multi-layered information models for West Cambridge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | E G Technology - PTK |
| Organisation | E G Technology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of Macro VEH, and development of New Analyser enclosure |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of Macro VEH, and development of New Analyser enclosure |
| Impact | Development of Macro VEH, and development of New Analyser enclosure |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | EM-Solutions |
| Organisation | EM - Solutions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Detection of defects in water courses |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detection of defects in water courses |
| Impact | Detection of defects in water courses |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Epsimon Ltd - NdB |
| Organisation | Epsimon |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Instrumentation of new Civil Eng building (boreholes, basement, frame, strong floor) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Instrumentation of new Civil Eng building (boreholes, basement, frame, strong floor) |
| Impact | Instrumentation of new Civil Eng building (boreholes, basement, frame, strong floor) |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | FBGS - PTK |
| Organisation | FBGS |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of FRP armoured FBG fibre optic sensors for embedding in concrete structures. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of FRP armoured FBG fibre optic sensors for embedding in concrete structures. |
| Impact | Development of FRP armoured FBG fibre optic sensors for embedding in concrete structures. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | FO instrumentation for pile testing |
| Organisation | Gammon Construction Limited |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FO instrumentation for pile testing |
| Collaborator Contribution | FO instrumentation for pile testing |
| Impact | FO instrumentation for pile testing |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FO instrumentation of 2 tall towers in London - Nicky de Battista |
| Organisation | Multiplex Construction |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | FO instrumentation of 2 tall towers in London |
| Collaborator Contribution | FO instrumentation of 2 tall towers in London |
| Impact | FO instrumentation of 2 tall towers in London |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | FO instrumentation of test piles in San Francisco - Berkeley University - Nicky de Battista |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | FO instrumentation of test piles in San Francisco |
| Collaborator Contribution | FO instrumentation of test piles in San Francisco |
| Impact | FO instrumentation of test piles in San Francisco |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Febus - PTK |
| Organisation | FEBUS Optics |
| Country | France |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of high speed Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (BOTDR) fibre optic technology |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of high speed Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (BOTDR) fibre optic technology |
| Impact | Development of high speed Brillouin Optical Time Domain Reflectometry (BOTDR) fibre optic technology |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Femtofibertec- PTK |
| Organisation | Femtofibertec |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Low-cost FBG sensor array development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Low-cost FBG sensor array development |
| Impact | Low-cost FBG sensor array development |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Fit-for-Purpose Asset Information Requirements based on Asset Functions |
| Organisation | Jacobs Engineering Group |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC investigator Ajith Parlikad and Jacobs working on secondment project 'Fit-for-Purpose Asset Information Requirements based on Asset Functions' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration is still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Functional Data Modelling |
| Organisation | National University of Singapore |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Co-authored paper on transfer learning |
| Collaborator Contribution | Co-authored paper on transfer learning |
| Impact | Ward, R., Wong, C. S. Y., Chong, A., Choudhary, R., & Ramasamy, S. (2021). A study on the transferability of computational models of building electricity load patterns across climatic zones. Energy and Buildings, 237, 110826. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | GE Aviation - AS |
| Organisation | GE Aviation Systems |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Innovate UK projects on MEMS energy harvesting and self-powered wireless sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Innovate UK projects on MEMS energy harvesting and self-powered wireless sensors |
| Impact | Innovate UK projects on MEMS energy harvesting and self-powered wireless sensors |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Geocisa, Dragados - MSA |
| Organisation | Geocisa UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Mansion House and St Mary Abchurch monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Mansion House and St Mary Abchurch monitoring |
| Impact | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Mansion House and St Mary Abchurch monitoring |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Geosense - PTK |
| Organisation | Geosense |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Crossrail tunnel wireless XY tilt sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Crossrail tunnel wireless XY tilt sensors |
| Impact | Crossrail tunnel wireless XY tilt sensors |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Geosica April 2017 to January 2020 Historical building monitoring - Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Organisation | Geocisa UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Geosica no April 2017 to January 2020 Historical building monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Geosica no April 2017 to January 2020 Historical building monitoring |
| Impact | Geosica no April 2017 to January 2020 Historical building monitoring |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Growing Underground |
| Organisation | Growing Underground |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Digital twin of the underground farm to help optimize their crop yield and design the expansion |
| Collaborator Contribution | supported our research with giving us access to the site for monitoring and with other data |
| Impact | 1 book chapter, several presentations at seminars and media |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Growing Underground - Paul Fidler |
| Organisation | Growing Underground |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration |
| Impact | Growing Underground |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Gwynedd Council - PTK |
| Organisation | Gwynedd Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Brazil Wall movement, and Road condition monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Brazil Wall movement, and Road condition monitoring |
| Impact | Brazil Wall movement, and Road condition monitoring |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | HS2 - PTK |
| Organisation | Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | HS2 Bored concrete Piles Challenge |
| Collaborator Contribution | HS2 Bored concrete Piles Challenge |
| Impact | HS2 Bored concrete Piles Challenge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Hertfordshire County Council - AKNP and ZL |
| Organisation | Hertfordshire Sports Village |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | (1) Asset management for bridge networks. (2) Improve deterioration model for bridges with inspections data. (3) Prioritize maintenance activities for 11 bridges along A10 in Hertfordshire. (4) Group maintenance activities to reduce the traffic management cost in the bridge network. They have agreed on future support on providing historical principle and general inspections data for the 11 bridges. |
| Collaborator Contribution | (1) Asset management for bridge networks. (2) Improve deterioration model for bridges with inspections data. (3) Prioritize maintenance activities for 11 bridges along A10 in Hertfordshire. (4) Group maintenance activities to reduce the traffic management cost in the bridge network. They have agreed on future support on providing historical principle and general inspections data for the 11 bridges. |
| Impact | (1) Asset management for bridge networks. (2) Improve deterioration model for bridges with inspections data. (3) Prioritize maintenance activities for 11 bridges along A10 in Hertfordshire. (4) Group maintenance activities to reduce the traffic management cost in the bridge network. They have agreed on future support on providing historical principle and general inspections data for the 11 bridges. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Hertfordshire county council - ZhL |
| Organisation | Hertfordshire County Council |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Asset management for bridge networks |
| Collaborator Contribution | Asset management for bridge networks |
| Impact | Asset management for bridge networks |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Highways England - PTK |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | A14 Road Noise Monitoring A14 Abutment monitoring using FO Geogrids |
| Collaborator Contribution | A14 Road Noise Monitoring A14 Abutment monitoring using FO Geogrids |
| Impact | A14 Road Noise Monitoring A14 Abutment monitoring using FO Geogrids |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Historic England |
| Organisation | Historic England |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Assessment/monitoring of heritage structures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assessment/monitoring of heritage structures |
| Impact | Assessment/monitoring of heritage structures |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Huesker - Sinkhole Detection Development PK |
| Organisation | Huesker |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sinkhole Detection Development |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sinkhole Detection Development |
| Impact | Sinkhole Detection Development |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Huesker UK - PTK |
| Organisation | Huesker |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Instrumented Geogrid |
| Collaborator Contribution | Instrumented Geogrid |
| Impact | Instrumented Geogrid |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Humber Bridge - PTK |
| Organisation | Humber Bridge Board |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Work on Humber Bridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Work on Humber Bridge |
| Impact | Work on Humber Bridge |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | IHI - AS |
| Organisation | Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Low-power MEMS strain sensors and field deployment |
| Collaborator Contribution | Low-power MEMS strain sensors and field deployment |
| Impact | Low-power MEMS strain sensors and field deployment |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | ITM Soil - PTK |
| Organisation | ITM Soil |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dam monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dam monitoring |
| Impact | Dam monitoring |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Imetrum - MSA |
| Organisation | Imetrum |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Workshops for learning their Video Gauge software |
| Collaborator Contribution | Workshops for learning their Video Gauge software |
| Impact | Workshops for learning their Video Gauge software |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Imperial College London/Berkeley University/Alan Turing Institute - Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Impact | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Imperial College London/Berkeley University/Alan Turing Institute - Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Impact | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Imperial College London/Berkeley University/Alan Turing Institute - Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Impact | Statistical Shape Analysis; Structural Alert System for Marsh Lane Bridge |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Imperial College, London AEY |
| Organisation | Imperial College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Research Grant co-working |
| Collaborator Contribution | Research Grant co-working |
| Impact | Research Grant co-working |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Improbable - RC |
| Organisation | Improbable |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Knowledge Transfer Fellowship |
| Collaborator Contribution | Knowledge Transfer Fellowship |
| Impact | Knowledge Transfer Fellowship |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Informing the 'Digital Blueprint' for the Houses of Parliament |
| Organisation | Parliament of UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Jennifer Schooling and Houses of Parliament working on secondment project Informing the 'Digital Blueprint' for the Houses of Parliament |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active, outcomes and outputs not yet know. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | James Dyson Building - monitoring of superstructure - NdB |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Project management; Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design and preparation; Installation on site. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project management; Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design and preparation; Installation on site. |
| Impact | Project management; Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design and preparation; Installation on site. |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | John Grill Centre, University of Sydney - CRM |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Department | John Grill Centre |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Promoting more innovative and customer-focused infrastructure design in Australia |
| Collaborator Contribution | Promoting more innovative and customer-focused infrastructure design in Australia |
| Impact | Promoting more innovative and customer-focused infrastructure design in Australia |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | KTN- PTK |
| Organisation | Knowledge Transfer Network |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | HS2 Bored concrete Piles Challenge |
| Collaborator Contribution | HS2 Bored concrete Piles Challenge |
| Impact | HS2 Bored concrete Piles Challenge |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Keller - CK |
| Organisation | Keller Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | 3 pile load tests |
| Collaborator Contribution | 3 pile load tests |
| Impact | 3 pile load tests |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Keltbray - CK |
| Organisation | Keltbray |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | 2 pile load tests |
| Collaborator Contribution | 2 pile load tests |
| Impact | 2 pile load tests |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Keltbray Piling - NdB |
| Organisation | Keltbray |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Instrumentation and monitoring of RC test piles |
| Collaborator Contribution | Instrumentation and monitoring of RC test piles |
| Impact | Instrumentation and monitoring of RC test piles |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Knowledge exchange between University of Cambridge, University of Southampton, and University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration draws on University of Southampton expertise in fibre-optic sensor development and fibre-optic sensor analysis, University of Oxford knowledge of embedded sensing systems in smart pipe tunnel segments, and world leading University of Cambridge infrastructure sensing and concrete material research. One planned outcome of this collaboration is to use experimental tests on fundamental concrete behaviour, currently being performed at Cambridge, as a testbed for novel embedded fibre-optic sensors that are being developed at Southampton. This will allow for detailed evaluation of the new sensors themselves, against established sensing methods. The data recorded by these new sensors are expected to be of higher quality and will be used to develop improved models of concrete material behaviour. These tests are ongoing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Regular knowledge exchange is underway and joint projects planned. Most recently, in December 2022, Martynas Beresna (Southampton) and research students from Southampton and Oxford visited labs at the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS), University of Cambridge. Fibre-optic analysers at Cambridge were used to conduct initial trials of the novel sensors developed by Southampton. Further work is now underway to prepare these sensors for embedment in concrete material tests. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary. Beresna (Southampton) research interests include fiber optic sensors, distributed sensing systems, miniature optical imaging and spectrometry systems. Sheil (Oxford) has experimental geotechnics expertise and keen interests in intelligent monitoring to inform underground construction processes. Lees (Cambridge) contributes deep insight into concrete material and structural behaviour. The collaboration also draws upon Cambridge's strong position as a National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Knowledge exchange between University of Cambridge, University of Southampton, and University of Oxford |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration draws on University of Southampton expertise in fibre-optic sensor development and fibre-optic sensor analysis, University of Oxford knowledge of embedded sensing systems in smart pipe tunnel segments, and world leading University of Cambridge infrastructure sensing and concrete material research. One planned outcome of this collaboration is to use experimental tests on fundamental concrete behaviour, currently being performed at Cambridge, as a testbed for novel embedded fibre-optic sensors that are being developed at Southampton. This will allow for detailed evaluation of the new sensors themselves, against established sensing methods. The data recorded by these new sensors are expected to be of higher quality and will be used to develop improved models of concrete material behaviour. These tests are ongoing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Regular knowledge exchange is underway and joint projects planned. Most recently, in December 2022, Martynas Beresna (Southampton) and research students from Southampton and Oxford visited labs at the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS), University of Cambridge. Fibre-optic analysers at Cambridge were used to conduct initial trials of the novel sensors developed by Southampton. Further work is now underway to prepare these sensors for embedment in concrete material tests. |
| Impact | The collaboration is multi-disciplinary. Beresna (Southampton) research interests include fiber optic sensors, distributed sensing systems, miniature optical imaging and spectrometry systems. Sheil (Oxford) has experimental geotechnics expertise and keen interests in intelligent monitoring to inform underground construction processes. Lees (Cambridge) contributes deep insight into concrete material and structural behaviour. The collaboration also draws upon Cambridge's strong position as a National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | LDA - Design - YJ |
| Organisation | LDA Design |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Strategic LEP economic plan |
| Collaborator Contribution | Strategic LEP economic plan |
| Impact | Strategic LEP economic plan |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | LDA - Design - YJ |
| Organisation | LDA Design |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Strategic LEP economic plan |
| Collaborator Contribution | Strategic LEP economic plan |
| Impact | Strategic LEP economic plan |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Laing O'Rourke - LB |
| Organisation | Laing O'Rourke |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Impact | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Laing O'Rourke - PTK |
| Organisation | Laing O'Rourke |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Pile monitoring , Francis Crick, Staffpordshiore Bridges |
| Collaborator Contribution | Pile monitoring , Francis Crick, Staffpordshiore Bridges |
| Impact | Pile monitoring , Francis Crick, Staffpordshiore Bridges |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Lifecycle performance monitoring bridges using digital twins |
| Organisation | Chung-Ang University |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at Cambridge University has been collaborating with Chung-Ang University with the primary objective of developing low-cost performance monitoring systems for modular bridge elements. CSIC has extensive experience in long-term monitoring of full-scale structures using fibre optic sensing systems and valuable "know-how" of digital twin technology. We have been developing digital twins of a railway bridge in Staffordshire instrumented with FBG sensors during the construction phase. The self-sensing bridge provides information about the realistic conditions occurring on-site to the level of detail never achieved before. For instance, we can now monitor in real-time deformations at +200 sensor locations and accurate traffic loading causing these deformations. Together with their digital twins, these bridges serve as a research testbed for developing a low-cost condition monitoring system in collaboration with Chung-Ang University. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Some of the primary issues preventing the widespread deployment of more data-driven approaches in the asset management of transportation structures are mainly associated with their cost and power requirements for operating. The researchers at Chung-Ang University have been developing a system that addresses both requirements; a cost-efficient and ultra-low powered sensing system that measure strains and temperature and is suitable for long-term bridge monitoring purposes. Such a system can potentially transition the industry from visual inspections to more quantitative data-driven approaches. Thereby, the purpose of this proposal is to develop a reliable and cost-efficient monitoring system for bridge main load-carrying elements using the low-powered sensing equipment developed by the researchers at Chung-Ang University and CSIC's know-how on the long-term bridge monitoring applications and the digital twin technology. In addition to sharing knowledge and technology, the funding from this project is spent towards covering 50% of two researchers' employed at CSIC. |
| Impact | No outcomes yet |
| Start Year | 2021 |
| Description | London Underground - PTK |
| Organisation | Transport for London |
| Department | London Underground |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Smart Plan, Iron tunnel segments |
| Collaborator Contribution | Smart Plan, Iron tunnel segments |
| Impact | Smart Plan, Iron tunnel segments |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | MEMS surface gravimeter for geotechnical surveying |
| Organisation | Silicon Microgravity Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Ashwin Seshia and Silicon Micrograity working on secondment project 'MEMS surface gravimeter for geotechnical surveying' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | McLaren Applied Technologies - AS |
| Organisation | McLaren Applied Technologies |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Innovate UK project on self-powered wireless sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Innovate UK project on self-powered wireless sensors |
| Impact | Innovate UK project on self-powered wireless sensors |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | McLaren Racing Limited - HA |
| Organisation | McLaren Racing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Small size sensors (Fibre Bragg Grating) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Small size sensors (Fibre Bragg Grating) |
| Impact | Small size sensors (Fibre Bragg Grating) |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Metrodynamics, UK - ES |
| Organisation | Metro Dynamics |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Metropolitan planning and stakeholder engagement |
| Collaborator Contribution | Metropolitan planning and stakeholder engagement |
| Impact | Metropolitan planning and stakeholder engagement |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Modelling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change |
| Organisation | Alan Turing Institute |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Universities of Cambridge and California, Berkeley, in partnership with the British Geological Survey, are launching a joint project on Modelling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change. This project is run as part of the Data Centric Engineering Research Programme at the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at the University of Cambridge. The objective of this NSF(US)-EPSRC(UK) funded research is to better understand impacts of urban underground infrastructure, such as basements and tunnels, on shallow subsurface temperature increase at city-scale. Overview In dense urban areas, the underground is exploited for a variety of purposes, including transport, additional residential/commercial spaces, storage, and industrial processes. With the rise in urban populations and significant improvements in construction technologies, the number of subsurface structures is expected to grow in the next decade, leading to subsurface congestion. Recently emerging data indicate a significant impact of underground construction on subsurface temperature and there is extensive evidence of underground temperature rise at the local scale. Although it is well known that urbanization coupled with climate change is amplifying the urban heat island effect above ground, the extent of the underground climate change at the city scale is unknown because of limited work on modelling the historical and future underground climate change at large scale and very limited long-term underground temperature monitoring. The hypothesis of this research is that (a) the high ground temperature around tunnels and underground basements, (b) the observed temperature increase within the aquifer, and (c) inefficiency in ventilation of the underground railway networks, necessitate more detailed and reliable knowledge of urban underground thermal status. The project will develop a framework for monitoring and predicting temperature and groundwater distributions at high resolutions in the presence of underground heat sources and sinks. This can be achieved via a combination of numerical modelling, continuous temperature and groundwater monitoring and statistical analyses. The ultimate goal is for every city to generate reliable maps of underground climate, with the ability to understand the influence of future urbanization scenarios. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Modelling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change |
| Organisation | British Geological Survey |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Universities of Cambridge and California, Berkeley, in partnership with the British Geological Survey, are launching a joint project on Modelling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change. This project is run as part of the Data Centric Engineering Research Programme at the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at the University of Cambridge. The objective of this NSF(US)-EPSRC(UK) funded research is to better understand impacts of urban underground infrastructure, such as basements and tunnels, on shallow subsurface temperature increase at city-scale. Overview In dense urban areas, the underground is exploited for a variety of purposes, including transport, additional residential/commercial spaces, storage, and industrial processes. With the rise in urban populations and significant improvements in construction technologies, the number of subsurface structures is expected to grow in the next decade, leading to subsurface congestion. Recently emerging data indicate a significant impact of underground construction on subsurface temperature and there is extensive evidence of underground temperature rise at the local scale. Although it is well known that urbanization coupled with climate change is amplifying the urban heat island effect above ground, the extent of the underground climate change at the city scale is unknown because of limited work on modelling the historical and future underground climate change at large scale and very limited long-term underground temperature monitoring. The hypothesis of this research is that (a) the high ground temperature around tunnels and underground basements, (b) the observed temperature increase within the aquifer, and (c) inefficiency in ventilation of the underground railway networks, necessitate more detailed and reliable knowledge of urban underground thermal status. The project will develop a framework for monitoring and predicting temperature and groundwater distributions at high resolutions in the presence of underground heat sources and sinks. This can be achieved via a combination of numerical modelling, continuous temperature and groundwater monitoring and statistical analyses. The ultimate goal is for every city to generate reliable maps of underground climate, with the ability to understand the influence of future urbanization scenarios. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Modelling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The Universities of Cambridge and California, Berkeley, in partnership with the British Geological Survey, are launching a joint project on Modelling and Monitoring of Urban Underground Climate Change. This project is run as part of the Data Centric Engineering Research Programme at the Alan Turing Institute and the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at the University of Cambridge. The objective of this NSF(US)-EPSRC(UK) funded research is to better understand impacts of urban underground infrastructure, such as basements and tunnels, on shallow subsurface temperature increase at city-scale. Overview In dense urban areas, the underground is exploited for a variety of purposes, including transport, additional residential/commercial spaces, storage, and industrial processes. With the rise in urban populations and significant improvements in construction technologies, the number of subsurface structures is expected to grow in the next decade, leading to subsurface congestion. Recently emerging data indicate a significant impact of underground construction on subsurface temperature and there is extensive evidence of underground temperature rise at the local scale. Although it is well known that urbanization coupled with climate change is amplifying the urban heat island effect above ground, the extent of the underground climate change at the city scale is unknown because of limited work on modelling the historical and future underground climate change at large scale and very limited long-term underground temperature monitoring. The hypothesis of this research is that (a) the high ground temperature around tunnels and underground basements, (b) the observed temperature increase within the aquifer, and (c) inefficiency in ventilation of the underground railway networks, necessitate more detailed and reliable knowledge of urban underground thermal status. The project will develop a framework for monitoring and predicting temperature and groundwater distributions at high resolutions in the presence of underground heat sources and sinks. This can be achieved via a combination of numerical modelling, continuous temperature and groundwater monitoring and statistical analyses. The ultimate goal is for every city to generate reliable maps of underground climate, with the ability to understand the influence of future urbanization scenarios. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | No impact yet. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Monitoring of concrete bridges with acoustic emission sensors |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Highways England - Monitoring of concrete bridges with acoustic emission sensors The research will explore the benefits of acoustic emission monitoring on damage detection, characterisation and localisation in concrete bridges, enhanced by multi-sensing information from fibre optics and environmental sensors. The main objective is the development of data processing tools for the structural performance assessment of bridges, through continuous infrastructure monitoring and experimental studies. This research and development project is partly funded by Highways England and it is planned a highway bridge will be fully instrumented during this project in collaboration with Mistras Group Ltd, a leading acoustic emission sensing provider. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Monitoring of concrete bridges with acoustic emission sensors |
| Organisation | Kier Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Highways England - Monitoring of concrete bridges with acoustic emission sensors The research will explore the benefits of acoustic emission monitoring on damage detection, characterisation and localisation in concrete bridges, enhanced by multi-sensing information from fibre optics and environmental sensors. The main objective is the development of data processing tools for the structural performance assessment of bridges, through continuous infrastructure monitoring and experimental studies. This research and development project is partly funded by Highways England and it is planned a highway bridge will be fully instrumented during this project in collaboration with Mistras Group Ltd, a leading acoustic emission sensing provider. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Monitoring of concrete bridges with acoustic emission sensors |
| Organisation | Mistras Group Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Highways England - Monitoring of concrete bridges with acoustic emission sensors The research will explore the benefits of acoustic emission monitoring on damage detection, characterisation and localisation in concrete bridges, enhanced by multi-sensing information from fibre optics and environmental sensors. The main objective is the development of data processing tools for the structural performance assessment of bridges, through continuous infrastructure monitoring and experimental studies. This research and development project is partly funded by Highways England and it is planned a highway bridge will be fully instrumented during this project in collaboration with Mistras Group Ltd, a leading acoustic emission sensing provider. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Project still active, outputs and outcomes not yet known |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Monitoring of tall building during construction - Nicky de Battista |
| Organisation | Multiplex Construction |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Monitoring of tall building during construction |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of tall building during construction |
| Impact | Monitoring of tall building during construction |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Monitoring of under-reamed piles during tunnelling interception using distributed fibre optic sensing |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Transport for London Bank Station Capacity Upgrade (BSCU) project is reconstructing one of the busiest interchanges on the London Underground network. The tunnelling and underground excavation works commenced in 2016 and excavated their way around a 'rabbit warren'of existing tunnels and beneath many significant buildings in the City of London. An extensive instrumentation and monitoring programme was established to safeguard existing infrastructure assets and buildings. The unprecedented pile interceptions required at the Princes Court building won the 2019 BGA Fleming Award. This eight-storey two-level basement building, owned by The Worshipful Company of Grocers, was built in the 1970s and is supported on 25 large diameter unreinforced under-reamed piles in London Clay. The sprayed concrete lining (SCL) tunnelling fully intercepted four under-reamed piles. The interception strategy involved cutting piles just below tunnel crown and, while temporarily unsupported, constructing a reinforced concrete permanent load transfer structure around the tunnel for each pile. Fibre optic monitoring was installed in existing piles to measure pile response due to tunnelling and interception and to enable verification of design assumptions. Innovation and collaboration Working with Dragados, an Abaqus 3D finite element (FE) geotechnical substructure model, which included the under-ream piles, raft slab, building basement and all tunnel excavation sequences was created by consultant Dr Ali Nasekhian and team at Dr Sauer & Partners Ltd. This model was coupled with a Strand7 3D super-structure model from Robert Bird Group to predict pile foundation and building response to staged tunnelling excavation. At basement slab level, the tops of the under-reamed piles were instrumented with settlement monitoring studs fixed into the concrete slab above each pile position. At tunnelling level, reflective monitoring targets were installed on the pile shafts above and below the cut level as soon as the pile shaft was exposed (Figure 1). This conventional type of monitoring of the intercepted piles before and after cutting recorded the top and bottom pile displacement from exposing the pile, but not the pre-exposure displacement of the base of the pile nor the response down the length of the pile. To fully capture pile behaviour due to tunnelling and interception, distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) were used to measure the axial strain over the length of the piles during interception and other construction activities. The use of fibre optics to measure strain in new piled foundations is a well-established method and transferring this to the monitoring of existing piles has proven successful. It is the least invasive and only viable method for spatially continuous axial strain measurement where access is limited. CSIC was brought in by the project team as experts in this field and applied this method by inserting fibre optic sensing cables into two of the 50-year-old under-reamed piles (one intercepted pile and one nonintercepted pile). The piles were cored at 100mm diameter from basement level to depths of 18.9m and 25.3m respectively. A temperature and a strain cable, pre-spliced to form two parallel lines, was lowered to the bottom of the pre-cored boreholes using a spherical weight to overcome buoyancy and keep the cables under tension when grouting (Figure 2). After installation, the cables were connected in a single circuit to a Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) spectrum analyser located in the plant room of the basement. The under-reamed piles were monitored during tunnelling, pile interception/nibbling, support installation and post construction for over eight months in order to quantify the effect of these activities on pile performance. The strain profiles and strain changes at selected vertical locations are presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively, for one of the fully intercepted piles. There was little change in strain until the tunnel excavation reached the pile, at which point the axial strain increased all along the pile. This was followed by a sudden development of localised strain at the depth of 3.5m two days later. This localised strain had however halved within two weeks and is consistent with the presence of a short reinforcement cage down to this depth. The strain increase from pile interception to the load transfer structure completion measured an overall pile length extension of 1.3mm, which compared with 3 to 4mm measured by the conventional pile instrumentation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | This project may mark the first time this fibre optic monitoring method has been successfully used in piling interception during tunnelling. The conventional monitoring method would have been to measure the basement settlement at pile positions with studs, and measuring movement of the pile base by coring the pile and installing a rod extensometer. However, rod extensometers would only record displacement at discrete locations rather than at close intervals as with the fibre optics. It is not thought traditional instrumentation methods would have limited the pile interception solution, however more piles would likely have been instrumented and monitored. By installing innovative fibre optics and recording pile behaviour over the full pile length and at frequent time intervals, a clear picture of how the piles were responding to the advancing tunnel and pile interception gave much better confidence that the building was responding as predicted. As our urban cities become even more connected with new infrastructure tunnels, there will likely be further opportunities for such smart fibre optic piles to provide a robust and reliable instrumentation monitoring method. There can also be ongoing benefit for such monitoring systems if it provides a means by which existing foundation structures can be reused. The installation and use of fibre optic instrumentation to measure temperature and strain successfully verified the pile performance made in the design of the pile interceptions at Princes Court. Four of the Princes Court pile foundations are now permanently supported onto reinforced concrete load transfer structures around the new southbound Northern Line tunnel. Two of the 50-year-old piles retain the fibre optic instrumentation and have now become smart fibre optic piles which are available to inform future performance during multiple demolition and construction phases for the Princes Court site. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Monitoring of under-reamed piles during tunnelling interception using distributed fibre optic sensing |
| Organisation | Epsimon |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Transport for London Bank Station Capacity Upgrade (BSCU) project is reconstructing one of the busiest interchanges on the London Underground network. The tunnelling and underground excavation works commenced in 2016 and excavated their way around a 'rabbit warren'of existing tunnels and beneath many significant buildings in the City of London. An extensive instrumentation and monitoring programme was established to safeguard existing infrastructure assets and buildings. The unprecedented pile interceptions required at the Princes Court building won the 2019 BGA Fleming Award. This eight-storey two-level basement building, owned by The Worshipful Company of Grocers, was built in the 1970s and is supported on 25 large diameter unreinforced under-reamed piles in London Clay. The sprayed concrete lining (SCL) tunnelling fully intercepted four under-reamed piles. The interception strategy involved cutting piles just below tunnel crown and, while temporarily unsupported, constructing a reinforced concrete permanent load transfer structure around the tunnel for each pile. Fibre optic monitoring was installed in existing piles to measure pile response due to tunnelling and interception and to enable verification of design assumptions. Innovation and collaboration Working with Dragados, an Abaqus 3D finite element (FE) geotechnical substructure model, which included the under-ream piles, raft slab, building basement and all tunnel excavation sequences was created by consultant Dr Ali Nasekhian and team at Dr Sauer & Partners Ltd. This model was coupled with a Strand7 3D super-structure model from Robert Bird Group to predict pile foundation and building response to staged tunnelling excavation. At basement slab level, the tops of the under-reamed piles were instrumented with settlement monitoring studs fixed into the concrete slab above each pile position. At tunnelling level, reflective monitoring targets were installed on the pile shafts above and below the cut level as soon as the pile shaft was exposed (Figure 1). This conventional type of monitoring of the intercepted piles before and after cutting recorded the top and bottom pile displacement from exposing the pile, but not the pre-exposure displacement of the base of the pile nor the response down the length of the pile. To fully capture pile behaviour due to tunnelling and interception, distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) were used to measure the axial strain over the length of the piles during interception and other construction activities. The use of fibre optics to measure strain in new piled foundations is a well-established method and transferring this to the monitoring of existing piles has proven successful. It is the least invasive and only viable method for spatially continuous axial strain measurement where access is limited. CSIC was brought in by the project team as experts in this field and applied this method by inserting fibre optic sensing cables into two of the 50-year-old under-reamed piles (one intercepted pile and one nonintercepted pile). The piles were cored at 100mm diameter from basement level to depths of 18.9m and 25.3m respectively. A temperature and a strain cable, pre-spliced to form two parallel lines, was lowered to the bottom of the pre-cored boreholes using a spherical weight to overcome buoyancy and keep the cables under tension when grouting (Figure 2). After installation, the cables were connected in a single circuit to a Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) spectrum analyser located in the plant room of the basement. The under-reamed piles were monitored during tunnelling, pile interception/nibbling, support installation and post construction for over eight months in order to quantify the effect of these activities on pile performance. The strain profiles and strain changes at selected vertical locations are presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively, for one of the fully intercepted piles. There was little change in strain until the tunnel excavation reached the pile, at which point the axial strain increased all along the pile. This was followed by a sudden development of localised strain at the depth of 3.5m two days later. This localised strain had however halved within two weeks and is consistent with the presence of a short reinforcement cage down to this depth. The strain increase from pile interception to the load transfer structure completion measured an overall pile length extension of 1.3mm, which compared with 3 to 4mm measured by the conventional pile instrumentation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | This project may mark the first time this fibre optic monitoring method has been successfully used in piling interception during tunnelling. The conventional monitoring method would have been to measure the basement settlement at pile positions with studs, and measuring movement of the pile base by coring the pile and installing a rod extensometer. However, rod extensometers would only record displacement at discrete locations rather than at close intervals as with the fibre optics. It is not thought traditional instrumentation methods would have limited the pile interception solution, however more piles would likely have been instrumented and monitored. By installing innovative fibre optics and recording pile behaviour over the full pile length and at frequent time intervals, a clear picture of how the piles were responding to the advancing tunnel and pile interception gave much better confidence that the building was responding as predicted. As our urban cities become even more connected with new infrastructure tunnels, there will likely be further opportunities for such smart fibre optic piles to provide a robust and reliable instrumentation monitoring method. There can also be ongoing benefit for such monitoring systems if it provides a means by which existing foundation structures can be reused. The installation and use of fibre optic instrumentation to measure temperature and strain successfully verified the pile performance made in the design of the pile interceptions at Princes Court. Four of the Princes Court pile foundations are now permanently supported onto reinforced concrete load transfer structures around the new southbound Northern Line tunnel. Two of the 50-year-old piles retain the fibre optic instrumentation and have now become smart fibre optic piles which are available to inform future performance during multiple demolition and construction phases for the Princes Court site. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Monitoring of under-reamed piles during tunnelling interception using distributed fibre optic sensing |
| Organisation | Geocisa UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The Transport for London Bank Station Capacity Upgrade (BSCU) project is reconstructing one of the busiest interchanges on the London Underground network. The tunnelling and underground excavation works commenced in 2016 and excavated their way around a 'rabbit warren'of existing tunnels and beneath many significant buildings in the City of London. An extensive instrumentation and monitoring programme was established to safeguard existing infrastructure assets and buildings. The unprecedented pile interceptions required at the Princes Court building won the 2019 BGA Fleming Award. This eight-storey two-level basement building, owned by The Worshipful Company of Grocers, was built in the 1970s and is supported on 25 large diameter unreinforced under-reamed piles in London Clay. The sprayed concrete lining (SCL) tunnelling fully intercepted four under-reamed piles. The interception strategy involved cutting piles just below tunnel crown and, while temporarily unsupported, constructing a reinforced concrete permanent load transfer structure around the tunnel for each pile. Fibre optic monitoring was installed in existing piles to measure pile response due to tunnelling and interception and to enable verification of design assumptions. Innovation and collaboration Working with Dragados, an Abaqus 3D finite element (FE) geotechnical substructure model, which included the under-ream piles, raft slab, building basement and all tunnel excavation sequences was created by consultant Dr Ali Nasekhian and team at Dr Sauer & Partners Ltd. This model was coupled with a Strand7 3D super-structure model from Robert Bird Group to predict pile foundation and building response to staged tunnelling excavation. At basement slab level, the tops of the under-reamed piles were instrumented with settlement monitoring studs fixed into the concrete slab above each pile position. At tunnelling level, reflective monitoring targets were installed on the pile shafts above and below the cut level as soon as the pile shaft was exposed (Figure 1). This conventional type of monitoring of the intercepted piles before and after cutting recorded the top and bottom pile displacement from exposing the pile, but not the pre-exposure displacement of the base of the pile nor the response down the length of the pile. To fully capture pile behaviour due to tunnelling and interception, distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) were used to measure the axial strain over the length of the piles during interception and other construction activities. The use of fibre optics to measure strain in new piled foundations is a well-established method and transferring this to the monitoring of existing piles has proven successful. It is the least invasive and only viable method for spatially continuous axial strain measurement where access is limited. CSIC was brought in by the project team as experts in this field and applied this method by inserting fibre optic sensing cables into two of the 50-year-old under-reamed piles (one intercepted pile and one nonintercepted pile). The piles were cored at 100mm diameter from basement level to depths of 18.9m and 25.3m respectively. A temperature and a strain cable, pre-spliced to form two parallel lines, was lowered to the bottom of the pre-cored boreholes using a spherical weight to overcome buoyancy and keep the cables under tension when grouting (Figure 2). After installation, the cables were connected in a single circuit to a Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) spectrum analyser located in the plant room of the basement. The under-reamed piles were monitored during tunnelling, pile interception/nibbling, support installation and post construction for over eight months in order to quantify the effect of these activities on pile performance. The strain profiles and strain changes at selected vertical locations are presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively, for one of the fully intercepted piles. There was little change in strain until the tunnel excavation reached the pile, at which point the axial strain increased all along the pile. This was followed by a sudden development of localised strain at the depth of 3.5m two days later. This localised strain had however halved within two weeks and is consistent with the presence of a short reinforcement cage down to this depth. The strain increase from pile interception to the load transfer structure completion measured an overall pile length extension of 1.3mm, which compared with 3 to 4mm measured by the conventional pile instrumentation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | This project may mark the first time this fibre optic monitoring method has been successfully used in piling interception during tunnelling. The conventional monitoring method would have been to measure the basement settlement at pile positions with studs, and measuring movement of the pile base by coring the pile and installing a rod extensometer. However, rod extensometers would only record displacement at discrete locations rather than at close intervals as with the fibre optics. It is not thought traditional instrumentation methods would have limited the pile interception solution, however more piles would likely have been instrumented and monitored. By installing innovative fibre optics and recording pile behaviour over the full pile length and at frequent time intervals, a clear picture of how the piles were responding to the advancing tunnel and pile interception gave much better confidence that the building was responding as predicted. As our urban cities become even more connected with new infrastructure tunnels, there will likely be further opportunities for such smart fibre optic piles to provide a robust and reliable instrumentation monitoring method. There can also be ongoing benefit for such monitoring systems if it provides a means by which existing foundation structures can be reused. The installation and use of fibre optic instrumentation to measure temperature and strain successfully verified the pile performance made in the design of the pile interceptions at Princes Court. Four of the Princes Court pile foundations are now permanently supported onto reinforced concrete load transfer structures around the new southbound Northern Line tunnel. Two of the 50-year-old piles retain the fibre optic instrumentation and have now become smart fibre optic piles which are available to inform future performance during multiple demolition and construction phases for the Princes Court site. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Monitoring of under-reamed piles during tunnelling interception using distributed fibre optic sensing |
| Organisation | Transport for London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The Transport for London Bank Station Capacity Upgrade (BSCU) project is reconstructing one of the busiest interchanges on the London Underground network. The tunnelling and underground excavation works commenced in 2016 and excavated their way around a 'rabbit warren'of existing tunnels and beneath many significant buildings in the City of London. An extensive instrumentation and monitoring programme was established to safeguard existing infrastructure assets and buildings. The unprecedented pile interceptions required at the Princes Court building won the 2019 BGA Fleming Award. This eight-storey two-level basement building, owned by The Worshipful Company of Grocers, was built in the 1970s and is supported on 25 large diameter unreinforced under-reamed piles in London Clay. The sprayed concrete lining (SCL) tunnelling fully intercepted four under-reamed piles. The interception strategy involved cutting piles just below tunnel crown and, while temporarily unsupported, constructing a reinforced concrete permanent load transfer structure around the tunnel for each pile. Fibre optic monitoring was installed in existing piles to measure pile response due to tunnelling and interception and to enable verification of design assumptions. Innovation and collaboration Working with Dragados, an Abaqus 3D finite element (FE) geotechnical substructure model, which included the under-ream piles, raft slab, building basement and all tunnel excavation sequences was created by consultant Dr Ali Nasekhian and team at Dr Sauer & Partners Ltd. This model was coupled with a Strand7 3D super-structure model from Robert Bird Group to predict pile foundation and building response to staged tunnelling excavation. At basement slab level, the tops of the under-reamed piles were instrumented with settlement monitoring studs fixed into the concrete slab above each pile position. At tunnelling level, reflective monitoring targets were installed on the pile shafts above and below the cut level as soon as the pile shaft was exposed (Figure 1). This conventional type of monitoring of the intercepted piles before and after cutting recorded the top and bottom pile displacement from exposing the pile, but not the pre-exposure displacement of the base of the pile nor the response down the length of the pile. To fully capture pile behaviour due to tunnelling and interception, distributed fibre optic sensors (DFOS) were used to measure the axial strain over the length of the piles during interception and other construction activities. The use of fibre optics to measure strain in new piled foundations is a well-established method and transferring this to the monitoring of existing piles has proven successful. It is the least invasive and only viable method for spatially continuous axial strain measurement where access is limited. CSIC was brought in by the project team as experts in this field and applied this method by inserting fibre optic sensing cables into two of the 50-year-old under-reamed piles (one intercepted pile and one nonintercepted pile). The piles were cored at 100mm diameter from basement level to depths of 18.9m and 25.3m respectively. A temperature and a strain cable, pre-spliced to form two parallel lines, was lowered to the bottom of the pre-cored boreholes using a spherical weight to overcome buoyancy and keep the cables under tension when grouting (Figure 2). After installation, the cables were connected in a single circuit to a Brillouin Optical Time Domain Analysis (BOTDA) spectrum analyser located in the plant room of the basement. The under-reamed piles were monitored during tunnelling, pile interception/nibbling, support installation and post construction for over eight months in order to quantify the effect of these activities on pile performance. The strain profiles and strain changes at selected vertical locations are presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively, for one of the fully intercepted piles. There was little change in strain until the tunnel excavation reached the pile, at which point the axial strain increased all along the pile. This was followed by a sudden development of localised strain at the depth of 3.5m two days later. This localised strain had however halved within two weeks and is consistent with the presence of a short reinforcement cage down to this depth. The strain increase from pile interception to the load transfer structure completion measured an overall pile length extension of 1.3mm, which compared with 3 to 4mm measured by the conventional pile instrumentation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | This project may mark the first time this fibre optic monitoring method has been successfully used in piling interception during tunnelling. The conventional monitoring method would have been to measure the basement settlement at pile positions with studs, and measuring movement of the pile base by coring the pile and installing a rod extensometer. However, rod extensometers would only record displacement at discrete locations rather than at close intervals as with the fibre optics. It is not thought traditional instrumentation methods would have limited the pile interception solution, however more piles would likely have been instrumented and monitored. By installing innovative fibre optics and recording pile behaviour over the full pile length and at frequent time intervals, a clear picture of how the piles were responding to the advancing tunnel and pile interception gave much better confidence that the building was responding as predicted. As our urban cities become even more connected with new infrastructure tunnels, there will likely be further opportunities for such smart fibre optic piles to provide a robust and reliable instrumentation monitoring method. There can also be ongoing benefit for such monitoring systems if it provides a means by which existing foundation structures can be reused. The installation and use of fibre optic instrumentation to measure temperature and strain successfully verified the pile performance made in the design of the pile interceptions at Princes Court. Four of the Princes Court pile foundations are now permanently supported onto reinforced concrete load transfer structures around the new southbound Northern Line tunnel. Two of the 50-year-old piles retain the fibre optic instrumentation and have now become smart fibre optic piles which are available to inform future performance during multiple demolition and construction phases for the Princes Court site. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Mott MacDonald - CRM |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Measuring effectiveness of @one Alliance consortium for delivering long term infrastructure upgrade programme (with prospective PhD student Daniel Brackenbury) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Measuring effectiveness of @one Alliance consortium for delivering long term infrastructure upgrade programme (with prospective PhD student Daniel Brackenbury) |
| Impact | Measuring effectiveness of @one Alliance consortium for delivering long term infrastructure upgrade programme (with prospective PhD student Daniel Brackenbury) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Mott MacDonald - PTK |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall. |
| Impact | Instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Mott MacDonald - ZL |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Develop user friendly software for asset management of bridge systems |
| Collaborator Contribution | Develop user friendly software for asset management of bridge systems |
| Impact | Develop user friendly software for asset management of bridge systems |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Mott MacDonald instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall - JMS |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall |
| Collaborator Contribution | instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall |
| Impact | instrumentation of sheet piling with FBG sensors and measurement during pile installation at Trinity Hall |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Mouchel - PTK |
| Organisation | Mouchel Group PLC |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Detection of defects in water courses |
| Collaborator Contribution | Detection of defects in water courses |
| Impact | Detection of defects in water courses |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Multi-sensing structural health monitoring of a skewed masonry arch bridge |
| Organisation | AECOM Technology Corporation |
| Department | AECOM, Nottingham, UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | In 2018, Network Rail commissioned CSIC and AECOM to install structural health monitoring technologies on a skewed masonry arch bridge in North Yorkshire, which had suffered extensive historic damage. The technologies would monitor how the 150-year-old bridge behaved structurally and how it was responding to intervention work carried out in 2016. Network Rail also wanted to explore available monitoring technologies to determine which ones worked well and could be used on other assets. The system traditionally used in the UK is deflection pole monitoring, which measures vertical crown displacements at the arch soffit under the centre of the tracks above. However, this method often entails difficulties with access and may require costly and disruptive road closures. Bespoke monitoring system Following several desk studies, laser vibrometry and laser scanning at an initial monitoring visit, engineers were able to study the environment of the bridge and design a bespoke monitoring system. The vibrometry was used to provide an initial gauge of the magnitude of movements that the bridge was experiencing under typical train loading. The laser scan data was used to profile the surface of the bridge and to decide the locations of monitoring equipment, given the constraints of an A-road and footpath running underneath it. CSIC installed distributed monitoring technologies, including a network of fibre optic Fibre Bragg Gratings for detailed dynamic measurement of strains across the arch, a laser scan analysis of historic deformations, and videogrammetry to capture dynamic displacements. AECOM installed an autonomous remote monitoring system comprising a range of dynamic, point-sensing technologies. Real-time monitoring with this system allows for accurate tracking of long-term trends in the monitoring data. The bridge was monitored for six months from September 2018 to February 2019. Both teams from AECOM and CSIC analysed large quantities of data to co-author a series of reports for Network Rail. The reports summarised the studies undertaken before installation, the reasons the system was chosen, the evaluation of the technologies used, and the results to date. An upcoming report will also provide guidance on monitoring technologies that can be used as alternatives to the deflection pole method. Next steps Following internal review by the client, it is intended that these reports will be submitted to the European Shift2Rail programme as examples of research that Network Rail is supporting. Network Rail is also commissioning AECOM and CSIC to perform long-term monitoring of the bridge, which demonstrates the value of the installed monitoring system and the benefits of long-term structural health monitoring. As part of this, the CSIC FBG system will be upgraded to be autonomous and self-sufficient, running on solar power in the same way as AECOM's remote point-sensing system. This enables FBG measurements to be taken automatically and monitoring data transferred back to the CSIC office for analysis. The teams from AECOM and CSIC have also been invited to present the project results to other asset engineers at Network Rail as an example of best practice. This project has enabled CSIC to continue the development of fibre optic monitoring of heritage structures and carry out research into the fundamental behaviour of an existing skewed masonry arch railway bridge. Following refinement of the monitoring system at this bridge, it is expected that more testing on other bridges will take place in the next year. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | CSIC's innovative way of monitoring the health of ageing railway infrastructure won the New Civil Engineer TechFest Rail Visionary award. The award recognises organisations developing pioneering ideas and designs to effect major changes in the global rail sector. The University of Cambridge, Innovative Structural Health Monitoring of Ageing Railway Infrastructure and Smart Monitoring for Condition Assessment of Ageing Infrastructure (a collaboration between CSIC, AECOM, Network Rail and the Alan Turing Institute (ATI)) showcases two bespoke monitoring systems designed for a masonry arch bridge and viaduct, both in Yorkshire. As well as enabling fundamental research into the behaviour of these heritage structures, the detailed monitoring data is also being used to research novel, statistical-based approaches to asset management and structural assessment, through collaboration between CSIC and ATI. Furthermore, at one of these structures, a skewed masonry arch bridge, Network Rail wanted to explore available monitoring technologies to determine systems with the potential to be used on other assets. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Multi-sensing structural health monitoring of a skewed masonry arch bridge |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | In 2018, Network Rail commissioned CSIC and AECOM to install structural health monitoring technologies on a skewed masonry arch bridge in North Yorkshire, which had suffered extensive historic damage. The technologies would monitor how the 150-year-old bridge behaved structurally and how it was responding to intervention work carried out in 2016. Network Rail also wanted to explore available monitoring technologies to determine which ones worked well and could be used on other assets. The system traditionally used in the UK is deflection pole monitoring, which measures vertical crown displacements at the arch soffit under the centre of the tracks above. However, this method often entails difficulties with access and may require costly and disruptive road closures. Bespoke monitoring system Following several desk studies, laser vibrometry and laser scanning at an initial monitoring visit, engineers were able to study the environment of the bridge and design a bespoke monitoring system. The vibrometry was used to provide an initial gauge of the magnitude of movements that the bridge was experiencing under typical train loading. The laser scan data was used to profile the surface of the bridge and to decide the locations of monitoring equipment, given the constraints of an A-road and footpath running underneath it. CSIC installed distributed monitoring technologies, including a network of fibre optic Fibre Bragg Gratings for detailed dynamic measurement of strains across the arch, a laser scan analysis of historic deformations, and videogrammetry to capture dynamic displacements. AECOM installed an autonomous remote monitoring system comprising a range of dynamic, point-sensing technologies. Real-time monitoring with this system allows for accurate tracking of long-term trends in the monitoring data. The bridge was monitored for six months from September 2018 to February 2019. Both teams from AECOM and CSIC analysed large quantities of data to co-author a series of reports for Network Rail. The reports summarised the studies undertaken before installation, the reasons the system was chosen, the evaluation of the technologies used, and the results to date. An upcoming report will also provide guidance on monitoring technologies that can be used as alternatives to the deflection pole method. Next steps Following internal review by the client, it is intended that these reports will be submitted to the European Shift2Rail programme as examples of research that Network Rail is supporting. Network Rail is also commissioning AECOM and CSIC to perform long-term monitoring of the bridge, which demonstrates the value of the installed monitoring system and the benefits of long-term structural health monitoring. As part of this, the CSIC FBG system will be upgraded to be autonomous and self-sufficient, running on solar power in the same way as AECOM's remote point-sensing system. This enables FBG measurements to be taken automatically and monitoring data transferred back to the CSIC office for analysis. The teams from AECOM and CSIC have also been invited to present the project results to other asset engineers at Network Rail as an example of best practice. This project has enabled CSIC to continue the development of fibre optic monitoring of heritage structures and carry out research into the fundamental behaviour of an existing skewed masonry arch railway bridge. Following refinement of the monitoring system at this bridge, it is expected that more testing on other bridges will take place in the next year. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | CSIC's innovative way of monitoring the health of ageing railway infrastructure won the New Civil Engineer TechFest Rail Visionary award. The award recognises organisations developing pioneering ideas and designs to effect major changes in the global rail sector. The University of Cambridge, Innovative Structural Health Monitoring of Ageing Railway Infrastructure and Smart Monitoring for Condition Assessment of Ageing Infrastructure (a collaboration between CSIC, AECOM, Network Rail and the Alan Turing Institute (ATI)) showcases two bespoke monitoring systems designed for a masonry arch bridge and viaduct, both in Yorkshire. As well as enabling fundamental research into the behaviour of these heritage structures, the detailed monitoring data is also being used to research novel, statistical-based approaches to asset management and structural assessment, through collaboration between CSIC and ATI. Furthermore, at one of these structures, a skewed masonry arch bridge, Network Rail wanted to explore available monitoring technologies to determine systems with the potential to be used on other assets. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Multiplex - NdB |
| Organisation | Multiplex Construction |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Monitoring of tall building during construction |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of tall building during construction |
| Impact | Monitoring of tall building during construction |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Myriad CEG Limited - PTK |
| Organisation | Myriad Heat and Power Products Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Thermal piles |
| Collaborator Contribution | Thermal piles |
| Impact | Thermal piles |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | NPL (National Physical Laboratory) - CRM |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Discussions on parameters for NPL-sponsored PhD studentship for Sakthy Selvakumaran to study structural health monitoring of bridges. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Discussions on parameters for NPL-sponsored PhD studentship for Sakthy Selvakumaran to study structural health monitoring of bridges. |
| Impact | Discussions on parameters for NPL-sponsored PhD studentship for Sakthy Selvakumaran to study structural health monitoring of bridges. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | National Grid - PTK |
| Organisation | National Grid UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Tunnel segments and tunnel monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Tunnel segments and tunnel monitoring |
| Impact | Tunnel segments and tunnel monitoring |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Network Rail |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Leeds Masonry arch |
| Collaborator Contribution | Leeds Masonry arch |
| Impact | Leeds Masonry arch |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Network Rail - HA |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Installation of distributed and discrete (FBG) optical fibre sensors on a Victorian masonry arch rail bridge, Leeds. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Installation of distributed and discrete (FBG) optical fibre sensors on a Victorian masonry arch rail bridge, Leeds. |
| Impact | Installation of distributed and discrete (FBG) optical fibre sensors on a Victorian masonry arch rail bridge, Leeds. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Network Rail - HA |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct) |
| Impact | Data-centric Bridge Assessment (Marsh Lane Viaduct) |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Network Rail - JMS |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Digital Railway programme |
| Collaborator Contribution | Digital Railway programme |
| Impact | Digital Railway programme |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Network Rail - LB |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Impact | Staffordshire Alliance Bridge Monitoring Project (EPSRC) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Network Rail - MJD |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Monitoring of a masonry viaduct in Leeds |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of a masonry viaduct in Leeds |
| Impact | Monitoring of a masonry viaduct in Leeds |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Network Rail HS1 St Pancras - AKNP |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | BIM |
| Collaborator Contribution | BIM |
| Impact | BIM |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Network Rail/BAM Nuttall/BAM Ritchies and L&C Precision - Development and testing of a rockfall monitoring system at Hooley Cutting PK |
| Organisation | BAM Nuttall |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development and testing of a rockfall monitoring system at Hooley Cutting |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and testing of a rockfall monitoring system at Hooley Cutting |
| Impact | CSIC has been shortlisted in six categories for the Ground Engineering Awards 2019, for the Hooley Cuttings Fibre Optic Sensing project. The project was a collaboration between Network Rail, BAM Nuttall, BAM Ritchies and L&C Precision and was led by CSIC Business Development Manager Philip Keenan. The categories in which CSIC have been shortlisted are: Award for digital innovation Award for equipment innovation Award for technical excellence Ground investigation project of the year - under £2M Health and safety award UK geotechnical team of the year. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Network Rail/BAM Nuttall/BAM Ritchies and L&C Precision - Development and testing of a rockfall monitoring system at Hooley Cutting PK |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development and testing of a rockfall monitoring system at Hooley Cutting |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development and testing of a rockfall monitoring system at Hooley Cutting |
| Impact | CSIC has been shortlisted in six categories for the Ground Engineering Awards 2019, for the Hooley Cuttings Fibre Optic Sensing project. The project was a collaboration between Network Rail, BAM Nuttall, BAM Ritchies and L&C Precision and was led by CSIC Business Development Manager Philip Keenan. The categories in which CSIC have been shortlisted are: Award for digital innovation Award for equipment innovation Award for technical excellence Ground investigation project of the year - under £2M Health and safety award UK geotechnical team of the year. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Network rail - MJD |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Long term monitoring of masonry arch bridge assets |
| Collaborator Contribution | Long term monitoring of masonry arch bridge assets |
| Impact | Monitoring of a masonry viaduct in Leeds |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Noztek - PTK |
| Organisation | Noztek |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of fibre coating equipment |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of fibre coating equipment |
| Impact | Development of fibre coating equipment |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - transportation - Alex Gkiokas |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - transportation |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - transportation |
| Impact | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - transportation |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - water sector - Alex Giokas |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - water sector |
| Collaborator Contribution | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - water sector |
| Impact | Ongoing discussions November 2017-present - water sector - Alex Giokas |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Optasense - PTK |
| Organisation | OptaSense |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | PhD Research proposal for road monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | PhD Research proposal for road monitoring |
| Impact | PhD Research proposal for road monitoring |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton - Dynamic distributed sensing with FO |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton - Dynamic distributed sensing with FO |
| Collaborator Contribution | Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton - Dynamic distributed sensing with FO |
| Impact | Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton - Dynamic distributed sensing with FO |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Pedestrian Bridge Deployment Project-Epsimon & University of Sydney |
| Organisation | Epsimon |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Deployment project, led by Epsimon Ltd, consists of monitoring soil movement in real time during soil treatment with geopolymer to stabilise water mains. The monitoring (FBG sensors in vertical boreholes) will carry on for 12 months to ensure that the treatment is effective. All FBG sensors have been manufactured, a realtime software developed and deployment is planned for the week of 13 July. The pedestrian bridge installation project at the University of Sydney, led by Epsimon Ltd, has been completed and all the FBG sensors manufactured by CSIC installed by the contractor, which was trained remotely. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | The pedestrian bridge installation project at the University of Sydney, led by Epsimon Ltd, has been completed and all the FBG sensors manufactured by CSIC installed by the contractor. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pedestrian Bridge Deployment Project-Epsimon & University of Sydney |
| Organisation | Laing O'Rourke |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Deployment project, led by Epsimon Ltd, consists of monitoring soil movement in real time during soil treatment with geopolymer to stabilise water mains. The monitoring (FBG sensors in vertical boreholes) will carry on for 12 months to ensure that the treatment is effective. All FBG sensors have been manufactured, a realtime software developed and deployment is planned for the week of 13 July. The pedestrian bridge installation project at the University of Sydney, led by Epsimon Ltd, has been completed and all the FBG sensors manufactured by CSIC installed by the contractor, which was trained remotely. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | The pedestrian bridge installation project at the University of Sydney, led by Epsimon Ltd, has been completed and all the FBG sensors manufactured by CSIC installed by the contractor. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Pedestrian Bridge Deployment Project-Epsimon & University of Sydney |
| Organisation | University of Sydney |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Deployment project, led by Epsimon Ltd, consists of monitoring soil movement in real time during soil treatment with geopolymer to stabilise water mains. The monitoring (FBG sensors in vertical boreholes) will carry on for 12 months to ensure that the treatment is effective. All FBG sensors have been manufactured, a realtime software developed and deployment is planned for the week of 13 July. The pedestrian bridge installation project at the University of Sydney, led by Epsimon Ltd, has been completed and all the FBG sensors manufactured by CSIC installed by the contractor, which was trained remotely. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | The pedestrian bridge installation project at the University of Sydney, led by Epsimon Ltd, has been completed and all the FBG sensors manufactured by CSIC installed by the contractor. |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | Peter Brett Associates - CR< |
| Organisation | Peter Brett Associates |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Smarter construction including re-use of existing piles, structural elements, off-site construction with incorporation of services and utilities design & integration of industry software platforms intelligently; smarter city design with a focus on energy & transport infrastructure |
| Collaborator Contribution | Smarter construction including re-use of existing piles, structural elements, off-site construction with incorporation of services and utilities design & integration of industry software platforms intelligently; smarter city design with a focus on energy & transport infrastructure |
| Impact | Smarter construction including re-use of existing piles, structural elements, off-site construction with incorporation of services and utilities design & integration of industry software platforms intelligently; smarter city design with a focus on energy & transport infrastructure |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Photogrammetric Study of Landslides and Rapid Ground Deformations |
| Organisation | Cam Dragon |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC investigator Dongfang Liang and Cam Dragon Corporation working on secondment project 'Photogrammetric Study of Landslides and Rapid Ground Deformations' |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still action, outputs and outcomes not yet known. |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Preliminary discussion about joint research project proposal - Nicky de Battista |
| Organisation | Arup Group |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Preliminary discussion about joint research project proposal |
| Collaborator Contribution | Preliminary discussion about joint research project proposal |
| Impact | Preliminary discussion about joint research project proposal |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration with CSIC - Haris Alexakis |
| Organisation | National Instruments Corp (UK) Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration with CSIC |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration with CSIC |
| Impact | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration with CSIC |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Qualis Flow |
| Organisation | Qualisflow |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Qualis Flow and CSIC are working together on a fourth year student project on data analysis for improving efficiency in the construction industry. As well as cooperating on this small initial project, we are exploring opportunities to develop this work further. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | N/A |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Description | RedBite - Social networked smart infrastructure assets AP |
| Organisation | RedBite Solutions |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Social networked smart infrastructure assets |
| Collaborator Contribution | Social networked smart infrastructure assets |
| Impact | Social networked smart infrastructure assets |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Road degradation: a city-scale model to inform efficient asset management and maintenance |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The scale of the problem Road degradation is an increasing problem for asset managers. Potholes are one of the main contributing factors and require local authorities to commit limited funding to maintenance and repairs. According to the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance Survey (ALARM) 2019, the total number of potholes filled in the past year (April 2018 to April 2019) in England and Wales totals 1,860,072 at a cost of £97.8m. The average cost to fill one pothole as part of planned maintenance is £39.80 compared to £65.10 for a reactive repair. Improving asset management A CSIC, University of Cambridge and University of California, Berkeley research project is examining the degradation of roads (evaluation considers potholes, cracks and other types of defects) with the aim of improving road asset management. Currently asset managers lack accurate methods to support decision-making on maintenance programmes resulting in an ad-hoc approach to deciding which areas of road to repair and maintain. A predictive and city-scale maintenance approach based on accurate information would allow more efficient planning, reducing the cost of works and disruption. Pavement condition data This research seeks to improve knowledge about local road degradation using road condition data from visual surveys published by the San Francisco Department of Public Works. This provides historical and current information on the Pavement Condition Index (PCI) of more than 12,000 street segments in the city (pavement in this context refers to road surface). Following recent advances in road condition monitoring, resulting data is becoming available in increasingly large spatial scales and high spatial resolutions. This brings both opportunities and challenges for road management: opportunities to understand network-wide condition change and maintenance needs at high spatio-temporal resolution; challenges to efficiently analyse large amounts of spatio-temporal data to identify meaningful and usable quantification to inform maintenance and management. Incorporating spatial and temporal dimensions Incorporating spatial and temporal dimensions into road degradation modelling secures a system-wide understanding for asset management. There are many difficulties in producing a reliable road condition prediction model, particularly with the strong presence of measurement errors inherent in visual surveys and lack of information on crucial degradation-affecting factors including construction quality, microclimate and ground conditions. To address the issue of 'imperfect data', additional structures in the data are considered to enable further insights of the street network. This research demonstrates that a hierarchical modelling approach can be applied in a more general manner to take advantage of natural spatial structures in the street network and considers the possible correlations between nearby road sections. Three road degradation models were designed to represent a range of modelling strategies, including a conventional approach that fits a degradation curve for each category (road material type and functional class, see Figure 1), as well as a spatial model that explicitly considers the similarities in degradation trends of neighbouring road segments. Benefits of spatial (SP) model The SP model coordinates degradation rates between adjacent street segments showing regions of high degradation rates in red and low in blue (see Figure 2). Results show a large part of the individual variations in degradation rates are explained by the spatially structured component but the most convincing strength of the SP model is its ability to identify high degradation rates. The SP model: Is able to estimate the degradation parameters for road sections with missing or erroneous observations by using information from adjacent sections Can visually illustrate regions where roads degrade faster than average Can assist asset managers to apply their attention to a smaller region. Smart infrastructure and management The spatial road degradation model proposed in this study emerges from recent advances in the field of smart infrastructure and management and is built on two decades of continuous records of cityscale road condition data. Such input data are premised on advanced sensing and digital data inventory technologies for road infrastructure. This model is also an example of how interdisciplinary data analysis techniques can contribute to the management of smart infrastructure. As a basis it addresses the imperfections (measurement errors and missing predictors) in road condition data and identifies critical regions where roads tend to age faster. Such results can support local engineers to conduct more informed inspections/site investigations, and make more effective asset management decisions. Future prospects The spatial model can support targeted inspections to investigate underlying causes of degradation in vulnerable regions and inform asset management decisions and activities by enabling system-level maintenance planning. Inter-disciplinary modelling for sustainable cityscale management In the longer term road degradation and traffic simulation modelling will be brought together to consider the sustainability of the cityscale transportation system through the modelling of potential emission mitigation scenarios. Currently, there are many carbon mitigation proposals within the transportation system, for example, eco-routing where drivers choose less congested and less bumpy routes. From the infrastructure asset management perspective, the opportunities include the adoption of recycled materials, roadwork schedules to minimise construction disruptions and maintenance allocations that prioritise the reduction of use phase emissions from vehicles. Current studies of both areas remain siloed; road engineers do not consider dynamics in traffic and traffic engineers do not consider condition of roads. Taking a systems approach enables network-wide impact in reducing emissions, total vehicle hours/distance travelled and overall road conditions to better manage traffic congestion and associated pollution and inform more efficient asset management. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration is still active. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | DEMO Consultants |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Ferrovial Agroman |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | INSITU Engineering |
| Country | Nigeria |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Infraestruturas de Portugal |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Innovactory |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Institute of Transport Economics (Norway) |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Norwegian Geotechnical Institute |
| Country | Norway |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | Planetek Italia |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | University of Minho |
| Country | Portugal |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | SAFEWAY |
| Organisation | University of Vigo |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The SAFEWAY project The SAFEWAY project, a GIS-Based Infrastructure Management System for Optimised Response to Extreme Events on Terrestrial Transport Networks, aims to address the ability of transport systems to function during adverse conditions and quickly recover to acceptable levels of service after extreme events. SAFEWAY develops a transversal solution mainly focused on terrestrial transport modes, including both roads and railway infrastructure networks. Several of the SAFEWAY modules (mainly monitoring and risk prediction) can also be applied to other transport modes such as maritime. The main objective of the project is to design, validate and implement holistic methods, strategies, tools and technical interventions to significantly increase the resilience of inland transport infrastructure by reducing risk vulnerability and strengthening network systems to extreme events. The University of Cambridge is one of 15 partners collaborating on the project, which is being coordinated by the University of Vigo, Spain. Challenges addressed SAFEWAY project tools and interventions will be deployed for critical hazards, both natural and man-made, including: wildfires in Portugal; floods, which currently account for half of climate hazards across Europe; land displacements in the UK, Spain, the Netherlands and Portugal; and seismic-related events in the Iberian Peninsula and Italy. Resilience to man-made hazards such as terrorism, vandalism, accidents, and negligence will be secured by mitigating their impacts with real-time mobility advice, such as TomTom real-time traffic management. SAFEWAY also employs innovative socio-technical elements of psychology and risk tolerance for communities at local, regional and European level, for both natural and man-made hazards. SAFEWAY's objectives will address and strengthen the four criteria for a resilient infrastructure: robustness, resourcefulness, rapid recovery and redundancy. Optimum balance Senior Lecturer in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator, Dr Ajith Parlikad, is leading collaborative research to develop predictive models for critical infrastructure assets that consider measured structural performance and trends observed in large databases to estimate the risks of future infrastructure damage, shutdown and deterioration. Projections of second, thirdorder, and long-term consequences will also be assessed. The University of Cambridge team will be involved in the development of a robust decision support framework for terrestrial transportation infrastructure management by considering diverse types of risks related to natural and man-made extreme events and balancing stakeholders' demands and optimising priorities over asset types. The objective is to identify the optimum balance between long-term risk minimisation and available financial resources to find the optimum resilience. SAFEWAY is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 'Smart, green and integrated transport' work programme which is aimed at achieving a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and-environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Still active |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Satellite Applications Catapult - CRM |
| Organisation | Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Remote sensing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Remote sensing |
| Impact | Remote sensing |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Satellite Applications Catapult - MSA |
| Organisation | Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Mansion House and St Mary Abchurch monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Mansion House and St Mary Abchurch monitoring |
| Impact | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade Mansion House and St Mary Abchurch monitoring |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Senceive - Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station - JMS |
| Organisation | Senceive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station |
| Impact | Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Senceive - Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station - JMS |
| Organisation | Senceive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station |
| Impact | Collaboration on deployment project for CSattAR at Moorgate station |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Senceive - PRAF |
| Organisation | Senceive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Testing/Calibration of a new Senceive wireless sensor in the Instron room. (Note: No 'formal' agreement apart from a few emails.) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing/Calibration of a new Senceive wireless sensor in the Instron room. (Note: No 'formal' agreement apart from a few emails.) |
| Impact | Testing/Calibration of a new Senceive wireless sensor in the Instron room. (Note: No 'formal' agreement apart from a few emails.) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Senceive - PTK |
| Organisation | Senceive |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | CSIC - testing and evaluation of wireless strain sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | CSIC - testing and evaluation of wireless strain sensors |
| Impact | CSIC - testing and evaluation of wireless strain sensors |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Sengenia - PTK |
| Organisation | Sengenia Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of FBG solutions |
| Collaborator Contribution | Development of FBG solutions |
| Impact | Development of FBG solutions |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Sengenia -PTK |
| Organisation | Sengenia Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Custom FBG sensor arrays |
| Collaborator Contribution | Custom FBG sensor arrays |
| Impact | Custom FBG sensor arrays |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Severn Trent Water - PTK |
| Organisation | Severn Trent Water |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Sewer infiltration monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Sewer infiltration monitoring |
| Impact | Sewer infiltration monitoring |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Silicon Microgravity Ltd AS |
| Organisation | Silicon Microgravity Ltd. |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Design, fabrication and characterisation of MEMS gravity sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Design, fabrication and characterisation of MEMS gravity sensors |
| Impact | Design, fabrication and characterisation of MEMS gravity sensors |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Skanska - DC |
| Organisation | Skanska AB |
| Country | Sweden |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Northern line extension (visit of Dr Chris Williamson) |
| Collaborator Contribution | Northern line extension (visit of Dr Chris Williamson) |
| Impact | Northern line extension (visit of Dr Chris Williamson) |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Skanska - PTK |
| Organisation | Skanska UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Pile loading, training in FO splicing and deployment. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Pile loading, training in FO splicing and deployment. |
| Impact | Pile loading, training in FO splicing and deployment. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Smart Motorways Programme |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Smart Motorways Programme: Highways England has an emerging technology programme as part of its smart motorways programme. These programmes typically have three phases: Discover, Develop and Demonstrate. Under this, CSIC was commissioned to look at 'Embedded Asset Sensing'. This has so far involved two projects. Discover phase: (July 2018-Feb 2019)CSIC produced an extensive report detailing emerging and existing technologies available to monitor a variety of assets including bridges, embankments, lighting poles, pavement, safety barriers. Technologies covered included computer vision, attached sensing (WSN, Fibre optics), acoustic emissions, satellite data. It also proposed a number of potential 'Develop' projects. Develop phase: (Oct 2019 - ongoing) the Develop project currently underway is developing an acoustic emission sensing solution to monitor crack growth in concrete bridges. This involves a campaign of lab testing, and implementation on (at least) one highway bridge, as part of a suite of innovative instrumentation including fibre optics and computer vision. This phase of the project is due to complete in Nov 2020, with a further demonstrate phase if this proves successful. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | Smith and Wallwork - PTK |
| Organisation | Smith and Wallwork |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Trinity Hall Excavation Monitoring |
| Collaborator Contribution | Trinity Hall Excavation Monitoring |
| Impact | Trinity Hall Excavation Monitoring |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Southbank - pile testing - NdB |
| Organisation | Southbank Centre |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Project management; Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design and preparation; Installation on site; Operation of monitoring system; Data analysis and reporting |
| Collaborator Contribution | Project management; Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design and preparation; Installation on site; Operation of monitoring system; Data analysis and reporting |
| Impact | Project management; Site visits and discussion with client; Monitoring system design and preparation; Installation on site; Operation of monitoring system; Data analysis and reporting |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Splicetec - Crossrail site splicing projects. Co-development of methods for field-splicing FO sensors - JMS |
| Organisation | Splicetec AG |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Crossrail site splicing projects. Co-development of methods for field-splicing FO sensors |
| Collaborator Contribution | Crossrail site splicing projects. Co-development of methods for field-splicing FO sensors |
| Impact | Crossrail site splicing projects. Co-development of methods for field-splicing FO sensors |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Splicetec - PTK |
| Organisation | Splicetec AG |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Crossrail site splicing during tunneling |
| Collaborator Contribution | Crossrail site splicing during tunneling |
| Impact | Crossrail site splicing during tunneling |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | St Mary Abchurch, Mansion House 05.17-01.20 - Sinan Acikgoz |
| Organisation | Dragados |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dragados / LUL - St Mary Abchurch, Mansion House 05.17-01.20 |
| Collaborator Contribution | Dragados / LUL - St Mary Abchurch, Mansion House 05.17-01.20 |
| Impact | Dragados / LUL - St Mary Abchurch, Mansion House 05.17-01.20 |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Sylex - PTK |
| Organisation | Sylex |
| Country | Slovakia |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | joint delivery of FBG training |
| Collaborator Contribution | joint delivery of FBG training |
| Impact | joint delivery of FBG training |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - ES |
| Organisation | Tallinn University of Technology |
| Country | Estonia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Big data, data mining and access to information |
| Collaborator Contribution | Big data, data mining and access to information |
| Impact | Big data, data mining and access to information |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Tensar |
| Organisation | Tensar International Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Integrated strain sensors in geogrids |
| Collaborator Contribution | Integrated strain sensors in geogrids |
| Impact | Integrated strain sensors in geogrids |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Testing of trial piles - Nicky de Battista |
| Organisation | University of California, Berkeley |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Testing of trial piles |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing of trial piles |
| Impact | Testing of trial piles |
| Start Year | 2018 |
| Description | TfL - PTK |
| Organisation | Transport for London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Hammersmith Bridge |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hammersmith Bridge |
| Impact | Hammersmith Bridge |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | TfWM (Centro) - JT |
| Organisation | Transport for West Midlands |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Establishment of collaborative project on vehicle-based track condition monitoring, incl. supply of tram, access to depot facilities and support during installation of instrumentation. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Establishment of collaborative project on vehicle-based track condition monitoring, incl. supply of tram, access to depot facilities and support during installation of instrumentation. |
| Impact | Establishment of collaborative project on vehicle-based track condition monitoring, incl. supply of tram, access to depot facilities and support during installation of instrumentation. |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Thames Tideway/Thames water - MJD |
| Organisation | Thames Water Utilities Limited |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Monitoring of 3rd party assets during tunnelling, including bridges and heritage structures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Monitoring of 3rd party assets during tunnelling, including bridges and heritage structures |
| Impact | Monitoring of 3rd party assets during tunnelling, including bridges and heritage structures |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Tony Gee Partnership - LB |
| Organisation | Tony Gee Consultants |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Smart 'Band-Aids' for Resilient Concrete Structures |
| Collaborator Contribution | Smart 'Band-Aids' for Resilient Concrete Structures |
| Impact | Smart 'Band-Aids' for Resilient Concrete Structures |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Transport for London - AKNP |
| Organisation | Transport for London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Information risk assessment; Asset information management |
| Collaborator Contribution | Information risk assessment; Asset information management |
| Impact | Information risk assessment; Asset information management |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Transport for London - CRM |
| Organisation | Transport for London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Remote sensing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Remote sensing |
| Impact | Remote sensing |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Trimble - CRM |
| Organisation | Trimble Inc. |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Augmented reality and computer modelling in construction |
| Collaborator Contribution | Augmented reality and computer modelling in construction |
| Impact | Augmented reality and computer modelling in construction |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Università di Napoli Federico II - CK |
| Organisation | University of Naples |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Erasmus student |
| Collaborator Contribution | Erasmus student |
| Impact | Erasmus student |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Università di Napoli Federico II April 2017 to Sept 2017 Hosted Erasmus student - Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Organisation | University of Naples |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Università di Napoli Federico II April 2017 to Sept 2017 Erasmus student |
| Collaborator Contribution | Università di Napoli Federico II April 2017 to Sept 2017 Erasmus student |
| Impact | Università di Napoli Federico II April 2017 to Sept 2017 Erasmus student |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University College, London AEY |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fibre Optic analyser |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fibre Optic analyser |
| Impact | Fibre Optic analyser |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | University of Cambridge Department of Engineering- PTK |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Department | Department of Engineering |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | James Dyson Building, piles and floors |
| Collaborator Contribution | James Dyson Building, piles and floors |
| Impact | James Dyson Building, piles and floors |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | University of Edinburgh AEY |
| Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Business Engagement |
| Collaborator Contribution | Business Engagement |
| Impact | Business Engagement |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | University of Pretoria - LB |
| Organisation | University of Pretoria |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fibre-optic instrumentation of bridges (Alborada Trust, Cambridge-Africa Programme) - knowledge exchange trip, lecture |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fibre-optic instrumentation of bridges (Alborada Trust, Cambridge-Africa Programme) - knowledge exchange trip |
| Impact | Fibre-optic instrumentation of bridges (Alborada Trust, Cambridge-Africa Programme) |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | University of Sheffield AEY |
| Organisation | University of Sheffield |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Noise sensor |
| Collaborator Contribution | Noise sensor |
| Impact | Noise sensor |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | University of Southampton - CK |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | "OLE piles instrumentation and testing. Collaborating on research papers." |
| Collaborator Contribution | "OLE piles instrumentation and testing. Collaborating on research papers." |
| Impact | "OLE piles instrumentation and testing. Collaborating on research papers." |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | University of Wollongong, NSW - AEY |
| Organisation | University of Wollongong |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | University of Wollongong, NSW |
| Collaborator Contribution | Infrastructure and Smart Cities |
| Impact | Infrastructure and Smart Cities |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | UtterBerry instrumentation of structures at Trinity Hall to assess building movement during ground engineering - JMS |
| Organisation | Utterberry Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | instrumentation of structures at Trinity Hall to assess building movement during ground engineering |
| Collaborator Contribution | instrumentation of structures at Trinity Hall to assess building movement during ground engineering |
| Impact | instrumentation of structures at Trinity Hall to assess building movement during ground engineering |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | African Union Development Agency |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | Aurecon South Africa (Pty) Ltd |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | Jones & Wagener |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | Parsons Bakery |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | University of Dar es Salaam |
| Country | Tanzania, United Republic of |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | University of Khartoum |
| Country | Sudan |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | University of Pretoria |
| Country | South Africa |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Wind Africa: Developing performance-based design for foundation systems of WIND turbines in AFRICA |
| Organisation | WSP Group plc |
| Department | WSP UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | The project Now in its second year, Wind Africa is a collaborative project which aims to support the potential of renewable energy resources to generate power across the continent and is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). Approximately half of Africa's population lacks access to electricity and more power generation is also needed to meet future demand. It is estimated that 35 per cent of the world's resources for wind energy could be located in the continent, but there are several challenges to developing the necessary infrastructure. Arid conditions result in unsaturated soil, mostly expansive clay, which makes founding wind turbines difficult. The soil properties change throughout the seasons and with variations in moisture content; surfaces heave in the wet season and shrink in the dry season. These cycles can cause significant damage to buildings founded on these soils. The aim of the Wind Africa project is to develop a set of design guidelines for piled wind turbine foundations in expansive clay to support growth of a sustainable energy market in Africa. There are four work packages to the project: To perform field tests on the cyclic response of foundations on unsaturated expansive soils To complement the field testing with centrifuge tests To perform an extensive laboratory study on samples of soils taken from expansive soil regions in Africa To develop a numerical analysis code to allow detailed studies to be performed on foundations with various geometries and configurations. The first and third packages are being undertaken by researchers in Cambridge, led by Dr Mohammed Elshafie, CSIC Investigator and Senior Lecturer for the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology. The second and fourth packages of the project are being investigated by collaborators at the University of Pretoria and Durham University respectively. Field testing in South Africa In January, a geotechnical drilling investigation took place on the proposed field-testing site in South Africa. The site was chosen as there is evidence of problems with structures, which can be seen in the cracks of nearby buildings. It is also a large open area of known expansive clay with a lack of current infrastructure that would be impacted by testing. Two boreholes were drilled to investigate the profile of the soil and samples were taken for laboratory testing. Rock was found at an approximate depth of 12m in both boreholes and slickensided material, which is evidence of expansive soil, was found throughout the profile until the transition to rock. Undisturbed soils were also taken from the boreholes for the laboratory testing in Cambridge. Three types of testing were carried out on the soil samples; water retention, oedometer and triaxial tests to determine the moisture characteristics, stiffness and strength of the soil respectively. The samples were characterised and were found to have a high percentage of clay and a low percentage of gravel. The change in the volumes of the samples was measured during wetting and drying cycles and shrinkages recorded. Swelling tests under different stress levels are still to be undertaken and mineralogical composition investigated. Planning is now under way for the installation of the piles for the full field testing programme. |
| Collaborator Contribution | As above. |
| Impact | Collaboration still active. |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Title | DUAL AND TRIPLE AXIS INERTIAL SENSORS AND METHODS OF INERTIAL SENSING |
| Description | DUAL AND TRIPLE AXIS INERTIAL SENSORS AND METHODS OF INERTIAL SENSING EP20130771166 "Seshia, Ashwin ,Thiruvenkatanathan, Pradyumna, Zou, Xudong " 09/04/2013 Cambridge Enterprise Ltd - PTK |
| IP Reference | EP2893362 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | DUAL AND TRIPLE AXIS INERTIAL SENSORS AND METHODS OF INERTIAL SENSING EP20130771166 "Seshia, Ashwin ,Thiruvenkatanathan, Pradyumna, Zou, Xudong " 09/04/2013 Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. |
| Title | Disclosure to Cambridge Enterprise No. SCH-9208-22. Staffordshire Bridges project (Bridge Weigh-in-Motion system). Prior IP search ongoing |
| Description | Disclosure to Cambridge Enterprise No. SCH-9208-22. Staffordshire Bridges project (Bridge Weigh-in-Motion system). Prior IP search ongoing |
| IP Reference | TBC |
| Protection | Patent / Patent application |
| Year Protection Granted | |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Disclosure to Cambridge Enterprise No. SCH-9208-22. Staffordshire Bridges project (Bridge Weigh-in-Motion system). Prior IP search ongoing |
| Title | Energy harvesting systems and methods |
| Description | Energy harvesting systems and methods GB1603475.3 filed 29 February 2016 AAS |
| IP Reference | GB1603475.3 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Energy harvesting systems and methods GB1603475.3 filed 29 February 2016 |
| Title | Energy-harvesting apparatus and method |
| Description | Energy-harvesting apparatus and method US20150135869 A1 Kenichi Soga, Aswin Arunkumar Seshia, Yu Jia, Jize Yan 21/05/2015 Cambridge Enterprise PTK |
| IP Reference | US20150135869 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Energy-harvesting apparatus and method US20150135869 A1 Kenichi Soga, Aswin Arunkumar Seshia, Yu Jia, Jize Yan 21/05/2015 Cambridge Enterprise PTK |
| Title | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD |
| Description | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD 20160027208 Minh-Tri PHAM, Riccardo GHERARDI, Frank PERBET, Bjorn STENGER, Sam JOHNSON, Oliver WOODFORD, Pablo ALCANTARILLA, Roberto CIPOLLA 23/07/2015 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba - PTK |
| IP Reference | US20160027208 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | IMAGE ANALYSIS METHOD 20160027208 Minh-Tri PHAM, Riccardo GHERARDI, Frank PERBET, Bjorn STENGER, Sam JOHNSON, Oliver WOODFORD, Pablo ALCANTARILLA, Roberto CIPOLLA 23/07/2015 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba - PTK |
| Title | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND SYSTEM |
| Description | A method of comparing two object poses, wherein each object pose is expressed in terms of position, orientation and scale with respect to a common coordinate system, the method comprising: calculating a distance between the two object poses, the distance being calculated using the distance function: d sRt ? ( X , Y ) = d s 2 ? ( X , Y ) s s 2 + d r 2 ? ( X , Y ) s r 2 + d t 2 ? ( X , Y ) s t 2 . where X is the object pose of one object and Y is the object pose of the other object, d s ? ( X , Y ) = ? log ? ( s ? ( X ) s ? ( Y ) ) ? , ? d r ? ( X , Y ) = ? R ? ( X ) - R ? ( Y ) ? F , ? d t ? ( X , Y ) = ? t ? ( X ) - t ? ( Y ) ? s ? ( Y ) , s(X) and s(Y) are scalar functions representing the scale of the object poses X and Y respectively, R(X) and R(Y) are matrices expressing the rotation of object poses X and Y respectively, t(X) and t(Y) are vectors expressing the translation of object poses X and Y respectively, and ss, sr and st are weighting factors for ds, dr and dt respectively. |
| IP Reference | US2015036918 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Image processing method and system 9008439 Minh-Tri Pham, Oliver Woodford, Frank Perbet, Atsuto Maki, Bjorn Stenger, Roberto Cipolla 14/04/2015 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba - PTK |
| Title | MANUFACTURING METHODS |
| Description | We describe a method of manufacturing a plurality of electronic devices, the method comprising: manufacturing a multi-device motherboard, the multi-device motherboard comprising: a plurality of programmable device circuit boards, each of said device circuit boards bearing an electronic device comprising at least a device processor and programmable, non-volatile device memory for storing code for controlling the device processor, and a device programming region, wherein each of the device circuit boards is detachable from the remainder of the mother board except for one of more frangible links, at least one of said frangible links comprising a programming connection to the programmable circuit board; wherein the device programming region and device circuit boards are all part of the same circuit board, and wherein the device programming region bears a motherboard processor and motherboard program memory storing processor control code for controlling the motherboard processor to program the device circuit boards; storing code for at least one application program for said electronic device in said motherboard program memory; providing a user interface for said multi- device motherboard, wherein said user interface comprises a physical interface for an external computer system and a software user interface, wherein said software user interface is arranged to enable a user to configure each of said electronic devices to perform a defined function, wherein configuration of a said electronic device comprises providing software to said device memory of said electronic device, said software comprising code from said at least one application program such that a user-defined application is enabled to run on said electronic device to perform said user-defined function; using said user interface to configure said electronic devices on said motherboard; and detaching said configured electronic devices for use. |
| IP Reference | WO2015181533 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Manufacturing methods WO 2015181533 A3 Heba Bevan 30/05/2014 Utterberry Ltd. |
| Title | MEMS INERTIAL SENSOR AND METHOD OF INERTIAL SENSING |
| Description | The invention comprises an inertia! sensor comprising a frame, a proof mass; a first resonant element having a proximal end and a distal end, the first resonant element being fixed to the frame at its proximal end and coupled to the proof mass at its distal end, a second resonant element having a proximal end and a distal end, the second resonant element being fixed to the frame at its proximal end, adjacent to the first resonant element such that there is no coupling between the second resonant element and the proof mass, a means for coupling the first resonant element to the second resonant element; a drive means coupled to the first and second resonant elements for vibrating the first and second resonant elements; and a sensor assembly for detecting the amplitude of vibration of the resonant elements. |
| IP Reference | WO2011148137 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2011 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | MEMS INERTIAL SENSOR AND METHOD OF INERTIAL SENSING GB2011/000805 THIRUVENKATANATHAN, Pradyumna,SESHIA, Ashwin YAH, Size 26/05/2011 Cambridge Enterprise Ltd. |
| Title | MEMS energy harvesting |
| Description | MEMS energy harvesting - Invention disclosure filed with Cambridge Enterprise on 22/08/2016 - JMS |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | MEMS energy harvesting - Invention disclosure filed with Cambridge Enterprise on 22/08/2016 - JMS |
| Title | METHOD OF MONITORING SUBSURFACE CONCRETE STRUCTURES |
| Description | Fibre optic sensors are used to monitor the integrity of a subsurface concrete structure such as a pile or diaphragm wall. A fibre optic sensor array (48) is attached to a reinforcement or framework assembly (20) for the subsurface concrete structure. Concrete is applied to surround the reinforcement or framework assembly (20) and fibre optic sensor array (48). The fibre optic sensor array (48) is then used to collect temperature data during hydration of the subsurface concrete structure. The temperature data is monitored in real time to determine differentials across the structure, indicative of a problem within the structure. |
| IP Reference | WO2015118333 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Method of monitoring subsurface concrete structures WO2015118333 A1 Andrew Bell, Yue Ouyang, Kenichi SOGA, Duncan NICHOLSON 05/02/2014 Cementation Skanska Limited, The Chancellor, Masters And Scholars Of The University Of Cambridge, Arup Group Limited, |
| Title | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PROCESSING OF VIDEO DATA |
| Description | A method (100) and system (300) is described for processing video data comprising a plurality of images. The method (100) comprising obtaining (104, 106), for each of the plurality of images, a segmentation in a plurality of regions and a set of keypoints, and tracking (108) at least one region between a first image and a subsequent image resulting in a matched region in the subsequent image taking into account a matching between keypoints in the first image and the subsequent image. The latter results in accurate tracking of regions. Furthermore the method may optionally also perform label propagation taking into account keypoint tracking. |
| IP Reference | US2010239123 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2010 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Methods and systems for matching keypoints and tracking regions between frames of video data 9002055 Ryuji Funayama, Hiromichi Yanagihara, Julien Fauqueur, Gabriel Brostow, Roberto Cipolla 07/04/2015 Toyota Motor Europe NV, Cambridge Enterprise Limited - PTK |
| Title | METHODS FOR 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION AND REGISTRATION |
| Description | METHODS FOR 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION AND REGISTRATION 20150254527 Minh-Tri Pham, Frank Perbet, Bjorn Dietmar, Rafael Stenger, Riccardo Gherardi, Oliver Woodford, Sam Johnson, Roberto Cipolla, Stephan Liwicki 26/08/2014 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba - PTK |
| IP Reference | US20150254527 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2014 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | METHODS FOR 3D OBJECT RECOGNITION AND REGISTRATION 20150254527 Minh-Tri Pham, Frank Perbet, Bjorn Dietmar, Rafael Stenger, Riccardo Gherardi, Oliver Woodford, Sam Johnson, Roberto Cipolla, Stephan Liwicki 26/08/2014 Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba - PTK |
| Title | SENSOR SYSTEMS |
| Description | We describe a sensor system for measuring relative distance between sensors of the system, the sensor system comprising at least two sensors, wherein each said sensor comprises an RF transceiver coupled to a microprocessor and stored program code for controlling the microprocessor, wherein said stored program code comprises code to: send, using said RF transceiver a group of one or more data bits from the sensor to a second sensor; receive, using said RF transceiver, an acknowledgement of reception of said group of data bits from said second sensor; determine a time difference between said sending and said receiving; compensate said time difference from a processing delay by the microprocessor of said second sensor between the second sensor receiving said group of data bits and sending said acknowledgement, to determine timing data reprinting distance to said second sensor. |
| IP Reference | WO2016027104 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Sensor systems WO 2016027104 A1 Heba Bevan 22/08/2014 Utterberry Ltd. |
| Title | Vibration-based energy harvester with strain optimised topology |
| Description | An energy harvesting apparatus includes a first member 20 comprising a piezoelectric material fixed to a frame 22 at first and second positions, a cantilever beam 26 fixed at one end to the first member between the first and second positions and fixed at the other end to a proof mass 24, and an electrode provided on the first member between the first and second positions. The first member may be a membrane vibrator. The cantilever beam may comprise a piezoelectric material, may be coplanar with the first member and may be fixed to the first member equidistantly between the first and second positions. A plurality of cantilever beams, each comprising a proof mass, may be fixed to the first member. An alternative arrangement (figure 13) is disclosed wherein an electrode is fixed to the first member 130 and a plurality of proof masses 136 are connected to the first member in a spaced relationship between the first and second positions 132. The electrode may be positioned on the first member between the plurality of proof masses, which may be symmetrically spaced. The central area of the first member may not be attached to a proof mass. |
| IP Reference | GB2540406 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2017 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | Vibration-Based Energy Harvester with Strain Optimised Topology GB1512456.3 filed 16 July 2015 Licensed to 8power |
| Title | CB-GEO HPC Code |
| Description | The CB-GEO High-performance computing code is an application that can run numerical models using the material point method (MPM). The code is parallelised for both serial and distributed applications. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | One of the first (to the best of my knowledge) open source fully parallelised MPM codes using a modular design scheme for rapid alteration and modification by the user. |
| URL | https://github.com/cb-geo/mpm |
| Title | Real-Time Monitoring System for Civil Engineering Building |
| Description | The web-based application allows the monitoring of sensor packages installed in the Civil Engineering Building, through data processing and visualisation in real-time. It is a flexible system with a back-end (server-side) engine that enables data processing on the fly and handles communications with remote users. The server side is written in NodeJS and enhanced by Python, both open-source programming languages. The client-side is fully scripted in Javascript powered by 3D open-source visualisation libraries. At the moment it serves the purpose of processing and visualising mostly data from fibre-optics sensors, nonetheless, it was devised from the inception to be the engine of next-generation Digital Twins. In consequence, it is already powering other projects, such as the Digital Twins for the bridges in the Staffordshire Project, shared by CSIC and the Laing O'rourke Centre. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | In April 2021 it will be launched at the Cambridge Festival, as part of the CSIC outreach programme on smart sensing. |
| URL | https://csic-web.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/science_festival_master/index.html |
| Title | Real-time monitoring and Digital Twin of Norton Bridge - Miguel Bravo-Haro, Paul Fidler, Farhad Huseynov |
| Description | A data collection and web-based visualisation system and Digital Twin for Norton Bridge. Data from fibre-optic strain gauges, accelerometers, and train axle detectors may be viewed on a web-based application along with video of train crossings and ambient temperature and humidity. The system includes processing to determine train axle weights and utilisation factor of the bridge. |
| Type Of Technology | Webtool/Application |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Impact | TBC |
| Company Name | BKWAI LTD |
| Description | BKwai was created to develop software platforms to handle and to fuse sensor, satellite and environmental data. The is done with the aim of deriving insights to support civil engineers and construction companies make smarter, safer decisions. The software platform was designed to support construction site teams and asset owners better interpret large volumes of sensor data, and also incorporates new and emerging data sets, such as satellite radar used to monitor millimetre-scale displacements over wide geographical areas. The platform also aims to make use of data science techniques to allow users to interrogate data and create adaptive thresholds for identifying anomalous behaviour. |
| Year Established | 2019 |
| Impact | BKwai is currently installed in a number of construction sites and supports construction site teams and asset owners better interpret large volumes of sensor data, and also incorporates new and emerging data sets, such as satellite radar used to monitor millimetre-scale displacements over wide geographical areas. |
| Company Name | Epsimon |
| Description | Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities |
| Year Established | 2017 |
| Impact | Engineering related scientific and technical consulting activities |
| Description | "Going digital" roundtable discussion - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in "Going digital" roundtable discussion |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | "P1589 ™/D1 Draft Standard for Augmented Reality Learning Experience Model". IEEE-SA Standards Board, IEEE. Sponsor Learning Technologies Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society/Learning Technology |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participant to the P1589 Working Group. "P1589 ™/D1 Draft Standard for Augmented Reality Learning Experience Model". IEEE-SA Standards Board, IEEE. Sponsor Learning Technologies Standards Committee of the IEEE Computer Society/Learning Technology Abstract: Augmented Reality (AR) promises to provide significant boosts in operational efficiency by making information available to employees needing task support in context in real time. At this time, however, there is no general-purpose conceptual model and data model specification for representing learning activities (also known as employee tasks and procedures) and the learning 4 environment in which these tasks are performed (also known as the workplace). This document proposes an overarching integrated conceptual model that describes interactions between the physical world, the user, and digital information, the context for AR-assisted learning and other parameters of the environment. It defines a first proposal of the two types of required data models, modeling languages, and their binding to XML. Creating such interoperability specification and standard will help to open the market, adding interchangeable component products as alternatives to monolithic Augmented Reality-assisted learning systems. Moreover, it will enable the creation of experience repositories and online marketplaces for Augmented Reality-enabled learning content. Specific attention was given to supporting reuse and re-purposing of existing learning content and to cater to 'mixed' experiences combining real-world learner guidance with the consumption (or production) of traditional contents such as instructional video material or learning apps and widgets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://zapdf.com/ieee-draft-standard-for-an-augmented-reality-learning-experi.html |
| Description | 'Bringing buildings to life: Smart infrastructure at the Civil Engineering Building' - CSIC Research Associates Dr Miguel Bravo Haro and Dr Nicky de Battista at Cambridge Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Research Associates Dr Miguel Bravo Haro and Dr Nicky de Battista gave a virtual insight to the home of CSIC in the event 'Bringing buildings to life: Smart infrastructure at the Civil Engineering Building'. Attendees entered a web hub to interact with 3D models of instrumented areas of the building and saw visualisations of the data. "We launched an engaging platform that has pushed the possibilities of online visualisation of data from instrumented buildings, entirely powered by open-source tools," said Dr Bravo Haro. "The platform features the potential of smart buildings and we hope it becomes a useful tool both to teach concepts and to monitor assets. We hope to continue developing it inspired by the participants' enthusiasm." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.csiclivingbuilding.eng.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | 'Time for change' Hong Kong Delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 'Time for change' Hong Kong Delegation visit to CSIC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 13th International Workshop on Advanced Smart Materials and Smart Structures Technology - YR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of research to international academic community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 2020 CSIC Distinguished Lecture-Professor Jerome Lynch |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Professor Jerome Lynch gave the 2020 CSIC Distinguished Lecture entitled "The role of the civil engineer in an increasingly automated infrastructure world". This year's lecture explored the importance of civil engineers taking the role as lead innovators in the design, deployment, and accessibility of our increasingly automated built environments to serve society and advance the common good. Professor Lynch is Donald Malloure Department Chair of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Director of the University of Michigan Urban Collaboratory; he is a member of the CSIC International Advisory Group. The Distinguished Lecture 2020 is now available to watch on the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction YouTube channel. Presented via Zoom due to physical distancing restrictions resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, this year's lecture, titled 'The role of the civil engineer in an increasingly automated infrastructure world' was introduced by Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, and Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC and delivered by Professor Lynch from his office at the University of Michigan in the US. Reflecting on the history and current role of the profession, Professor Lynch stated: "Civil engineers are the designers, constructors and maintainers of the structures and services that truly maintain the common good of our society, essentially providing the quality of life of modern society. We are stewards of the environment and more recently stewards of the global climate." Professor Lynch considered grand global challenges including population growth, urbanisation and climate change, which require civil engineering leadership to help navigate the application of new innovations and technologies to ensure equitable accessibility to the benefits. The field of civil engineering is radically changing based on the emergence of sensing, data and modes of automation previously unimaginable. As sensors proliferate across our industry, the ability to collect data on the performance of our infrastructure is shedding new light on how infrastructure systems perform - including how they deteriorate over time. Data is at the core of exciting new approaches to modelling our built environments and revealing new ways society uses infrastructure. This brings new opportunities to civil engineers - but, asked Professor Lynch, "are civil engineering firms seizing the opportunities fast enough?" Together, sensing and data analytics is empowering a new generation of autonomous systems ranging from autonomous mobility services to cloud actuated urban watersheds. While civil engineers have been early adopters of intelligent infrastructure, there has been a shift to data driven methods and cloud computing to create a new class of cyber physical systems (CPS). Automation cannot be underestimated, Professor Lynch warned, and is key to our arsenal of solutions in battling climate change, managing ageing infrastructure and unlocking the capacity of our built assets through CPS. While there continues to be significant investment in the infrastructure service space, this emerging and valuable field is often led by expertise outside of civil engineering. "There is no strong civil engineering leadership at the helm which is mostly led by the IT sector providing solutions for free or at low cost to generate data," said Professor Lynch, noting an accompanying lack of transparency regarding use of data and data monetisation. He said: "Our domain expertise will extract true value from data while advancing common wealth over personal wealth. We have a role to play to ensure equitable access, particularly in the role of private financing in this space." Citing the thought-leadership report completed with colleagues at the University of Michigan titled 'In Service to Society', (Civil and Environmental Engineering, May, 2019), which sets out a "new strategic plan that will better position our profession as the scientific, technological and business leader forming multidisciplinary teams required to tackle the complex societal grand challenges ahead", Professor Lynch presented a number of infrastructure automation research projects across highways, storm water systems and connectivity that demonstrated the value of CPS in infrastructure. Acknowledging the gap between available public funding and funding needs for infrastructure - adding to the challenge to deliver sustainable, resilient and net zero infrastructure - Professor Lynch presented a number of new approaches to funding, some including a significant role for civil engineers to be the auditors of performance-based funding initiatives. Impressing the importance of the civil engineering profession to act on new opportunities presented by technological developments and to bring valuable expertise to a rapidly changing infrastructure landscape, he said: "We have the opportunity to unlock the value of data, we have the ability to provide unique insights to that data which allows that data itself to become a valuable asset of the infrastructure space." Professor Lynch also expressed the importance of attracting top talent to the profession and the danger of students choosing other areas of engineering perceived as more dynamic. He asked: "Are we losing ground on recruiting talented students? If we do not market ourselves professionally as leaders in this high-tech space we risk being overlooked and losing students who wrongly perceive our profession as old fashioned." The Distinguished Lecture concluded with a lively question and answer session with the topic sparking interest from many attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOwGmQ9t72ffPaVKsrHMshAobvgPMlZnw |
| Description | 2022 Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series 'Developments in Smart Infrastructure and Construction in the UK'- Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series explores ideas around the topic of engineering resilient, sustainable and equitable infrastructure. The Series is co-sponsored by the Center for Smart Infrastructure, a new initiative launched by the co-founder of CSIC, Professor Kenichi Soga, Donald H. McLaughlin Professor and a Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://its.berkeley.edu/news/smart-infrastructure-seminar-series |
| Description | 2nd International Conference on the Material Point Method for Modelling Soil-Water-Structure Interaction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The Second International Conference on the Material Point Method for "Modelling Large Deformation and Soil-Water-Structure Interaction" organised by the Anura 3D MPM Research Community was held in January 2019 at Cambridge. The conference was focussed on researchers and practitioners interested in computational methods, geotechnics, hydraulics, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://mpm2019.eu/home |
| Description | 6th International LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker at Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 8power - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Expert input to 8power regarding business opportunities in concrete curing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | @one Alliance - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring effectiveness of consortium to deliver long term infrastructure programme (with prospective PhD student Daniel Brackenbury) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | ACORN project partners Workshop - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | ACORN project partners workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | ARM (Softbank) - AAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interest in MEMS energy harvesting and related systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | ARUP/GLA representatives - Smart cities and city-level digital twin LW/TN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with ARUP and GLA representatives to discuss smart cities and city-level digital twin |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Achieving Net Zero Working Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | In March CSIC in collaboration with Keith Bowers, COWI and Janet Greenwood, Arcadis, convened a roundtable event on Achieving Net Zero with the objective of developing pragmatic actions around achieving zero carbon in the infrastructure and construction industry for the short and medium term, as well as providing support and guidance to policy makers. This event was attended by a range of clients, consultants and contracts, government and policy professionals. The group were very enthusiastic to continue meeting on an ad hoc basis to continue discussions and work to align net zero activities and not duplicate other initiatives. Since the roundtable event, multiple Achieving Net Zero follow up meetings have been held. The group has mapped the current carbon reduction initiatives and provided input to IPA on actions that the government can take. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Aeroflex Fibre Optic Analyser Proof of Concept JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fibre Optic Analyser |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Alstom - PTK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Rail monitoring using DAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Alstom - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Deep excavation monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | 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. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The DCE programme, launched in 2015 in partnership with the Lloyd's Register Foundation, has created projects all over the world in a huge variety of fields, from agriculture to aerospace, construction to climate, medical to maritime engineering. CSIC has been championing data-driven solutions to develop smart infrastructure and enable whole-life asset management since its beginning 10 years ago. The collaboration with the Turing focuses on digital twin technology, which can enable more robust and sustainable infrastructure in the built environment. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/spotlights/mark-girolami |
| Description | Anglian Water Celebrating Inspirational Women - An evening with Dr Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling presented Anglian Water Celebrating Inspirational Women - An evening with Dr Jennifer Schooling, promoting the increase of women into senior roles within our Business, I have arranged an early evening virtual event, the first of a series, to celebrate and learn about the fantastic achievements that women have made in the worlds of Business, Academia, Sport and Exploration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Artesis - ZhL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | (1) Predictive maintenance (2) Data analysis (3) Fault diagnosis (4) Mathematical model for prognosis (5) Value of sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Article in The New Scientist - 'World's first 3D-printed steel bridge opens in Amsterdam' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An article in The New Scientist - 'World's first 3D-printed steel bridge opens in Amsterdam' - celebrates an innovative four-year project involving a collaboration between CSIC and The Alan Turing Institute. The 3D-printed steel bridge was unveiled last week by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, who cut the ribbon with the aid of a robotic arm, a witty reference to the technology deployed to create the structure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newscientist.com/article/2283934-worlds-first-3d-printed-steel-bridge-opens-in-amsterdam... |
| Description | Article titled 'Creating a Virtual Replica', in Ingenia, the magazine of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Professors Lord Robert Mair, Mark Girolami, Melanie Jans-Singh. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An article exploring how digital twins are transforming engineering spotlights a number of pioneering CSIC projects Charting 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 with Professors Lord Robert Mair, Founding Head of CSIC, and Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering and Programme Director at The Alan Turing Institute, as well as Melanie Jans-Singh, a PhD student working with CSIC. Discussing ways in which digital twins are revolutionising engineering by using reliable and dynamic data capture from smart connected sensors in the built environment to enable operators to monitor and manage assets and facilities more efficiently, Prof Mark Girolami explains a true digital twin as a virtual representation, not a mere simulation: "The most important thing is that it uses real data from operating machinery and live processes to show what is happening." The concept of digital twins has been around for 10 years, but significant implementations have been carried out in the past few years due to technological advances in machine learning combined with higher computing speed and power. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.ingenia.org.uk/ingenia/issue-87/creating-a-virtual-replica |
| Description | Arup - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Interpretation of pile curing and load testing data |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | BEIS / Future Cities Catapult - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and Future Cities Catapult - Digital Built Britain research scoping project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | BIM Today - Smart structural health Sam Cocking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in BIM Today by Sam Cocking, CSIC PhD researcher, about the CSIC smart structural health monitoring of a 150 year-old masonry arch bridge in collaboration with AECOM and Network Rail for BIM Today (September 2019). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | BSI - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Expert input to BSI PAS185 steering group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring of the settlement response of various heritage buildings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bank Station Capacity Upgrade - MSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring of the settlement response of various heritage buildings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bechtel - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Determination of HS2 track-bed heave during and post-excavation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Beijing Information Science and Technology University (BISTU) - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Low-cost FBG analyzer |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bentley 'Year in infrastructure' - Panellist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was interviewed as part of a panel for the Bentley 'Year in infrastructure' 2018 conference on how the UK government attempting to help the infrastructure project delivery supply chain to embrace a new Digitally Built Britain? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Bentley 'Year in infrastructure' - Panellist |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was a panellist at the Bentley 'Year in infrastructure' conference 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Bentley Systems Inc - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Computer vision; 'as built' models of assets to compare with the design model; BIM Level 3 for asset management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Bentley and COMIT Digital Twins Awareness Event-Didem Gurdur Broo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Didem Gurdur Broo presented at the Bentley and COMIT Digital Twins Awareness Event on 'Data as a journey, not a destination'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.comit.org.uk/digitaltwinsawareness |
| Description | Beyond BIM Podcast-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling features in the latest series of the Beyond BIM podcast discussing systems thinking, the CSIC and Centre for Digital Built Britain paper 'Flourishing Systems', changing the way the infrastructure and construction industry views data and the limitations of current economic models. In the latest episode's lively and interesting discussion, Dr Schooling, Director of CSIC, explains the benefits of systems thinking and the interdependent nature of infrastructure, the importance of data as an engineering tool to tackle key challenges facing the infrastructure and construction industry - including climate change, resource constraint and resilience - and the limitations of our current economic paradigm founded on exploitation of resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/director-csic-interviewed-beyond-bim-podcast |
| Description | Birmingham University - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Integrated sensing for embankment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Blog ICE "Data-driven decision-making for smart sustainability"-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling write a blog for the ICE Civil Engineer Blog entitled "Data-driven decision-making for smart sustainability" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/news-and-insight/the-civil-engineer/september-2020/data-driven-decisions-for-... |
| Description | Book launch: Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities-Timea Nochta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The virtual launch event of Timea Notcha's recently published book 'Network Governance and Energy Transitions in European Cities'. The launch was held online and featured a short introduction to the book, as well as comments from colleagues Dr Louise Reardon (University of Birmingham) and Dr Dai Morgan (University of Cambridge). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Breakthrough Cities Workshop KTN - PTK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in workshop to develop new business and engagement models to solve complex urban challenges |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Bringing buildings to life - smart infrastructure at the Civil Engineering Building |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The work of CSIC over the past 10 years has made the case for understanding the actual performance of buildings and infrastructure assets in order to make better decisions for their efficient and sustainable design, construction, operation and maintenance. This approach also offers societal and economic benefits in terms of environmental sustainability, energy savings, reduction of waste and user wellbeing. In this project, sensors and data analysis enable better asset management, while reducing carbon emissions and enhancing conditions for users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/projects-and-case-studies/bringing-buildings-life-smar... |
| Description | British Antarctic Survey - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Explored possibilities for collaboration on Antarctic monitoring surveys |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | British Property Foundation delegation meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC and British Property Foundation knowledge exchange and engagement meeting. This delegation included 25 Chief Finance Officers hoping to gain a strategic understanding on benefits of utilising technology/data management to get the best from their assets and what the benefits are to their business; as well as an interest in future gazing and managing the operation of property assets. The meeting addressed the following: Who are CISIC What smart infrastructure is Our work with National Infrastructure Commission - on how data improves efficacy of existing projects and role of digital twin Our work with Centre for Digital Built Britain to digitalise asset life cycle |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Building Live Digital Construction conference - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Building Live Digital Construction conference panel discussion speaker |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CDBB Summer Research Showcase (presentation TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Timea Nochta presented at the CDBB Summer Research Showcase, title: 'The local governance of digital technology - implications for the cityscale digital twin' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/events/2019Sept12SummerShowcase |
| Description | CDBB Summer Research Showcase (presentation TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Timea Nochta presented at the CDBB Summer Research Showcase, title: 'The local governance of digital technology - implications for the cityscale digital twin' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/events/2019Sept12SummerShowcase |
| Description | CH2M - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Specifications for HS2 pile testing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CIRIA - Earth observation and InSAR technology for civil infrastructure PK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with CIRIA to discuss earth observation and InSAR technology for civil infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CIRIA infrastructure resilience event - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation in discussion group at CIRIA infrastructure resilience event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | COP26 -Build Better Now coordinated by the UK Green Building Council in the COP26 Built Environment Virtual Pavilion. - Dr Schooling a panel member at the 'Designing a green and resilient built environment: What do we need to do now and in the future?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Schooling a panel member at the 'Designing a green and resilient built environment: What do we need to do now and in the future?' event on Wednesday 10 November from 9am to 10am. This event will explore how design needs to change to drive action towards achieving a resilient and net-zero built environment that enhances nature, both now and in the future. The facilitated discussion will include an audience Q&A and will bring clarity on the actions policy and decision-makers can support to accelerate change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://buildbetternow.co/events/ |
| Description | COP26 -Build Better Now coordinated by the UK Green Building Council in the COP26 Built Environment Virtual Pavilion. Sam Cocking chaired event 'Empowering young people to become the climate-aware built environment professionals of the future: What do we need to do now?' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sam Cocking chaired event 'Empowering young people to become the climate-aware built environment professionals of the future: What do we need to do now?' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://buildbetternow.co/events/ |
| Description | CORAM 'Inspiring Women' event - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Speaker at Coram's Inspiring Women panel series with a focus on promoting STEM |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | COWI - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Judge at COWI Innovation workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CSIC & CIRIA Event - The Value of Data in Construction and Asset Management |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CIRIA and the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) joint event on The Value of Data in Construction and Asset Management will show the value of data in supporting engineering, construction and asset management practices. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/the-value-of-data-in-construction-and-... |
| Description | CSIC & Highways England's Embedded Asset Sensors for Deterioration Detection Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC & Highways England's Embedded Asset Sensors for Deterioration Detection Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CSIC 10th Anniversary - Dr James Talbot and Mr Tobias Carrigan Donfrancesco titled 'Project VIMTO and its progress towards the derivation of rail roughness spectra from axle-box accelerometers' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC 10th Anniversary - Dr Miguel Bravo-Haro and Dr Nicky de Battista titled 'Bringing buildings to life - smart infrastructure at the Civil Engineering Building' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC 10th Anniversary Research talks - Six short and fast paced research talks for CSIC Researchers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual event - a series of six short and fast-paced research presentations from CSIC Researchers showcasing a range of projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC 10th Anniversary talk - Dr Jennifer Schooling, CSIC Director, in conversation with Professor Mark Girolami, academic lead for CSIC, 'The future of digitalisation and the built environment' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC 10th Anniversary: Dr Nicky de Battista and Dr Alun Thomas titled 'Closing the loop: Back analysis of sprayed concrete tunnel junctions' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Virtual event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC 2019 Partner Party |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC hosted its annual partner party at its new home in the Civil Engineering Building on the West Cambridge Campus, which was officially opened by Andrew Wyllie CBE, President of the Institution of Engineers on the same day. The party, which was attended by many representatives from CSIC partner organisations including Highways England, HS2, TfL, Mott Macdonald and Bentley Systems, featured a number of fast-paced presentations showcasing a range of CSIC projects from research assistants and students, while fizz and canapés were served. Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, welcomed guests and acknowledged the valuable support CSIC receives from partner organisations and members of the Steering Group. Highlighting the role CSIC plays in bringing focus to world-leading research to transform infrastructure and construction through smarter information, Lord Mair said: "This summer CSIC hosted the International Conference for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) attracting experts, researchers and speakers from all over the world, which reflects the increasing interest in this dynamic field. Research and investment in our infrastructure and infrastructure services, which are so important to citizens, is crucial for the economy and society." This year's presentations, which are all available to view of the CSIC YouTube channel, were introduced by Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, who said: "I am delighted to welcome our partners to CSIC's new home at the Civil Engineering Building which is designed as a collaborative research space. Collaborating with our partners enables CSIC to accelerate the implementation of research outputs delivering value by improving margins, reducing costs and extending the productive life of assets. Our partners are key to success and by working together we are helping to establish the UK as a leader in smart infrastructure." CSIC presentations, which were followed by a Q&A session, included: Vibration monitoring of trams - Paul Fidler A new vibration-based approach for monitoring bridge scour - Kasun Kariyawasam Application of unsupervised learning in urban energy efficiency - Mingda Yuan New insights into heritage assets: smart sensing of masonry arch railway bridges - Sam Cocking Developing a dynamic digital twin in building and city levels: using West Cambridge site as a case study - Dr Qiuchen Lu The event was also an opportunity for partners to see the new Civil Engineering Building situated on the West Cambridge Campus, which houses the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS) and has 12 world-class, state-of-the-art laboratories focusing on a variety of civil engineering disciplines, including sensor development, structures, geomechanics and construction. NRFIS is part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research in Infrastructure & Cities (UKCRIC) portfolio of research and innovation facilities funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). The multi million pound collaborative space is designed to enable University researchers, industry and other academic institutions to work together on joint research programmes in the application of advanced sensor technologies to the monitoring of the UK's existing and new infrastructure to enable better decision-making. "The opening of NRFIS marks a significant contribution to the UK infrastructure research community which is key to designing, building and maintaining infrastructure which is resilient, adaptable and sustainable," said Professor Lord Robert Mair. "NRFIS is a facility where academia and industry can engage in protecting and growing the country's infrastructure base and supporting the UK to be a leader in the field of smart infrastructure." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/partners-hear-latest-csic-research-annual-event |
| Description | CSIC 2019 Partner Strategy Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | This year's CSIC Partner Strategy Day brought together partners and academics to identify and discuss pressing industry challenges that CSIC's future research agenda will seek to address. Robinson College hosted the fully-booked event, which attracted 30 partners from across infrastructure and construction organisations and focused on issues relating to global challenges, climate change, resilience and resource scarcity. The Partner Strategy Day took the form of round table discussions and comprised three separate sessions, each dedicated to a different topic: Session 1 Looking 20 years into the future and in the context of global challenges (climate change, resource scarcity, ageing infrastructure, climate shocks), how do you think the infrastructure and construction industry should/will have to operate? What are the gaps in the way we currently deliver, manage and operate infrastructure in the context of these global challenges which will prevent the industry from reaching this vision? Session 2 What are your most pressing needs to enable engagement with these challenges and reach this vision? Session 3 How can CSIC act as a catalyst for the wider industry to be bold in addressing these challenges? What are the research priorities? How does data enable better decision making in this context? Discussion also considered the role of data as a critical tool to help address these challenges, and how future research outputs of CSIC can support Industry Partners to be ready for and respond to change. Three short thought-leadership interventions set the scene between each session including: Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC; John Pelton, Technical Managing Director Strategic Estates Parliament; and Tim Embley, Group Research & Innovation Director, Costain. "Our annual CSIC Strategy Day is a chance for our partner organisations - including the owners and operators of infrastructure, consultants, contractors, asset managers and the technology and information supply chain - to learn from each other's experience and consider the industry in the light of global challenges. It is also an opportunity to identify potential collaborative projects that address real industry challenges and demonstrate the value of innovation." A paper will be produced from the CSIC Partner Strategy Day which will be distributed to attending partner organisations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/industry-partners-look-future-csic-2019-strategy-... |
| Description | CSIC 2020 Partner Gathering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The CSIC annual Partner Gathering was held on Zoom this year and was well attended by many of our industry partners. Welcomed by Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, and updated on CSIC activity by Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, partners enjoyed five short presentations on current CSIC research projects which were followed by a Q&A session. The presentations, listed below, can now be viewed on the CSIC YouTube channel. Dr Didem Gürdür Broo Data-driven cyber-physical systems for integrated smart infrastructure Dr Manu Sasidharan Risk-informed monitoring and management of critical infrastructure Dr Miguel Bravo-Haro The long journey of data from sensor to digital twin - a case study: Civil Engineering Building Dr Farhad Huseynov Digital Twins for Bridge Asset Management Dr Nikolaos Tziavos Acoustic emission and fibre optic sensing for deterioration monitoring of ageing infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/csic-partner-gathering-presentations-available-vi... |
| Description | CSIC 2020 Partner Strategy Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | e CSIC Partner Strategy Day, held on Friday 4th December went well and was attended by 50 industry representatives from 25 different partner organisations. DDF has created a spreadsheet of the outputs from the workshop sessions and JMS and DDF are now pulling together a paper which will be circulated to the CSIC Steering Group at the next meeting (25th February). The Partner Strategy Day was focussed around three workshop sessions based on key questions to help shape CSIC's future research agenda. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC 2022 short film: Data, performance, decision-making |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A new CSIC short film presents the Centre's vision and work to transform infrastructure through smarter information. CSIC's film introduces the collaborative work of the Centre that values data to support better decisions to deliver a safe, more sustainable, economically equitable and resilient infrastructure system - that enables people and the planet to flourish. Following CSIC's 2021 Annual Review, which marked 10 years of CSIC, the Centre has chosen to showcase its work in a new medium. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHoDq45GBYM |
| Description | CSIC Achieveing Net Zero Roundtable Discussion |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Achieveing Net Zero Roundtable Discussion What can we as an industry do now to move towards the net zero goal and what changes in policy are needed to enable industry to reach this goal? This is a cross-government and industry roundtable event, organised by CSIC, Arcadis, and COWI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC Alumni Event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Alumni Event was held on Sunday 7th July at Churchill College ahead of the start of ICSIC 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CSIC Annual Partner Garden Party Pecha Kucha Research Presentations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The annual CSIC Industry Partner Garden Party, held at Peterhouse College, showcased a range of innovative Research Associate projects. Representatives from the partner organisations enjoyed afternoon tea and a poster session before watching six fast-paced, Pecha Kucha-style presentations showcasing a variety of CSIC's innovative research projects. There was time for questions following the presentations, which invited partners to find out more about the projects of interest. Dee Dee Frawley, CSIC Programme Manager, announced this year's Partner Strategy Day, to be held on 3 December, which will focus on industry's next generation challenges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/presentations-from-csic-industry-partn... |
| Description | CSIC Annual Review 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC 2016 Annual Review has been published titled Implementing Innovation, the 30-page publication showcases the award-winning work of CSIC and its Industry Partners through case studies, academic research and collaboration with industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/csic-annual-review-2016.pdf |
| Description | CSIC Annual Review 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This year's Review, which features a preface from Tony Meggs, Chief Executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) and a contribution from Mark Enzer, Group Technical Director at Mott MacDonald, brings focus to the case for Smart infrastructure and seizing the opportunity for industry change. A number of CSIC case studies are presented which demonstrate successful collaborations with industry partners and provide evidence of the value and benefits of Smart Infrastructure. A collection of research projects showcases some of the innovative and wide-ranging research that CSIC is currently involved with. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/csic_cambridge_uni/docs/csic_ar_2017_mobile_ |
| Description | CSIC Annual Review 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This year's Annual Review, which features a foreword by Sarah Hayes, Senior Regulatory Advisor for the National Infrastructure Commission, and a contribution from Dr Anne Kemp, Director at Atkins - BIM Strategy and Development Chair, UK BIM Alliance, brings focus to the role of data to drive improved value and deliver a better experience for infrastructure users. A number of CSIC case studies and integrated smart solutions are presented which demonstrate successful collaborations with CSIC partners to bring solutions to challenges faced by industry on a range of infrastructure projects featuring both new and existing assets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/csiccomms2/docs/csic_ar_2018 |
| Description | CSIC Annual Review 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This year's Annual Review, which features a foreword by Andrew Wyllie, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) and former Chief Executive of Costain, and a contribution from Karen Alford, Flood and Coastal Risk Manager for the Environment Agency, explores data as an engineering tool and the opportunity technological advancement and data abundance brings to transform infrastructure and construction. The Review features a number of current CSIC project case studies demonstrating how CSIC works with partner organisations to deliver effective solutions for industry, including: a fibre optic sensing system for safer real-time rockfall monitoring of rail cuttings; a data-led decision-making model to optimise sustainable economic growth and development; and the structural health monitoring of a skewed masonry arch bridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/csic_cambridge_uni/docs/csic_ar_2019_web |
| Description | CSIC Annual Review 2020 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This year's CSIC Annual Review brings focus to the use of data from real performance to enable better decision-making for reducing carbon, increasing resilience and preserving resources. The Review is now available to read and download on the CSIC website. Acknowledging the effects of the global Covid-19 pandemic in his foreword to the Review, Andy Mitchell CBE, CEO of Tideway and Co-Chair of the Construction Leadership Council, reflects on the speed of change demonstrated as a result of lockdown restrictions, writing: "Change can happen, and it can happen very quickly as we all work to get the industry back up and running again, we cannot and must not simply go back to doing what we were doing before, designing, building and managing infrastructure in the same way. Even incremental change is not good enough - we have to do much more for much less, and quickly." Addressing the urgency of the global grand challenges of zero carbon, resource constraint and resilience, and considering both the hazard and opportunity the Covid crisis brings to create a sustainable post-pandemic future, Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, makes the case for collaborative action: "Despite the Covid-19 pandemic having a dramatic impact on all our lives, its impact on global CO2 emissions has been relatively small Our trajectory for recovery must not return to pre-pandemic levels - we must do more. "Collaborative action will be crucial to securing the changes required to reach net zero by 2050; the consequences for not acting now will be devastating for many. There is much to do in a short time, but the Covid-19 crisis has demonstrated that when we need to, we can overcome challenges and act quickly." Providing an industry perspective in his contribution to the Review, Tim Embley, Group Research & Innovation Director of Costain, highlights the importance of the sector working together to adapt, embrace and scale-up new solutions "to make yesterday's innovation today's norm". He writes: "If our industry is going to build a sustainable future, we must continue to bring leading-edge solutions into practice, with technology at the front and centre in everything we do. Data is the new currency for making the right decisions and smart infrastructure is the new practice in our engineering provisions." The Review features a wide range of current CSIC project case studies demonstrating how CSIC works closely with partner organisations to deliver effective smart infrastructure solutions for industry. These feature applications of innovative fibre optic strain technology, including: one applied to a possible early warning system for identifying potential sinkholes; another to a unique example of monitoring performance of large under-reamed piles intercepted by tunnelling; a third to the structural monitoring of various elements of the newly completed Civil Engineering Building at the University of Cambridge. Other case studies focus on the use of data and smart infrastructure solutions: one describes a data-driven framework to better target domestic energy policies, decarbonising domestic heating being a high priority for the route to net zero carbon; in another, CSIC researchers have been working in close collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute to optimise the use of data to support more effective urban energy policies. A further case study describes a new asset management methodology in which a line of sight from asset information to organisational objectives enables organisations to be agile in their response to extreme weather events and climate change. Another covers the development of a new digital strategy to support transport infrastructure investment and council policy goals in Cambridge to improve air quality and congestion. Research projects are integral to CSIC's success and this year's Review presents a number of these including: affordable robotics to support material efficiency, productivity and sustainability in construction of concrete buildings; the development of new instrumentation and analyses to estimate seabed cable fatigue - a topic of increasing concern for the resilience of offshore wind farms; emerging sensor technologies for the structural assessment and deterioration detection of highway assets, involving a systems integration approach bringing together a range of sensing technologies, computer vision and data analytics; and a proposed inspection system based on building digital twins for monitoring building environmental conditions which has the potential for implementing smarter techniques for facilities management. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/csic_cambridge_uni/docs/csic_ar_19062020_2_final |
| Description | CSIC Annual Review 2021 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The CSIC 2021 Annual Review, marks 10 years of CSIC transforming infrastructure through smarter information. Featuring a Foreword by Alison Baptiste, Director Project Delivery at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, and a contribution from Baroness Brown of Cambridge, Julia King, our 2021 Annual Review demonstrates how the collaborative model of CSIC - working with industry and policy towards data-driven insights for resilient, resource-efficient and cost-effective infrastructure - is as relevant today as it was at the Centre's launch 10 years ago. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://issuu.com/csic_cambridge_uni/docs/csic_ar_2021 |
| Description | CSIC Cities Conference - emerging connections - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Cities Conference - emerging connections |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | CSIC Climate Crisis Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | The CSIC Climate Crisis Workshop was held on Tuesday 3rd December, everyone from CSIC was invited to come along to discuss CSIC's response to the climate crisis. The goal was to explore what we could be doing operationally as well as considering our future research programme. The workshop was split into three parts, operational day to day running of CSIC, flying for business and future research. As a result of the workshop, we put together a list of small operational actions, most of which could be easily implemented (and many already have). The plans for CSIC's future research programme were introduced by Jennifer Schooling and discussed briefly at the workshop. This will be the focus of future workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CSIC Distinguished Lecture 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Distinguished Lecture 2018 Dr Anne Kemp, Director at Atkins - BIM Strategy and Development Chair, UK BIM Alliance "A glimpse into the future . By considering the past. The challenges, the opportunities - and our consciences" Abstract: The potential to deliver a smarter infrastructure to support a healthier and more prosperous society appears enormous, with the availability of more data than we know what to do with, and the ability to monitor and control not only the physical assets and resources moving through them, but the people as well. But this raises questions about ethics, and how we ensure that as humans we remain an essential part of the decision making process. If we reflect on how mistakes have been made in the past, can this provide insight into how we can avoid some of the unintended consequences for the future? This lecture will explore some of the challenges and opportunities we face in designing for a smarter infrastructure, and delve a little into how our consciences may help to guide our way forward. This thought-provoking lecture raises the importance of taking a multi-disciplinary and diverse approach to thinking about smart infrastructure and planning a future shaped by information derived from data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/Resources/presentations-videos/annual-lecture-videos/c... |
| Description | CSIC Distinguished Lecture 2021 - Prof Jim Hall - The data revolution in global-scale analysis of climate risks to infrastructure systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Increased awareness of infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYWu18WRcno&t=22s |
| Description | CSIC Distinguished Lecture 2022 - Sustainable infrastructure for the 2020s: what might 'really good' really look like? ' by Executive Director at WSP Rachel Skinner CBE |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presented by Executive Director at WSP and former President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (2020-21), Rachel Skinner CBE, the lecture expanded on the theme of her ICE presidency that brought focus to the climate emergency and the vital role that civil engineers must play in achieving net zero carbon emissions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wLpXIkCnCw |
| Description | CSIC Partner Strategy Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Infrastructure and construction partners joined academics for the annual CSIC Strategy Day, on Monday 3 December, to identify projects that will be developed to address real industry challenges. This year's Strategy Day focused on nine themes which were generated from a call to partners for next generation challenges from their specific area of industry. CSIC received more than 100 challenges submitted by partners which were shortlisted into nine workshops, led by an academic with the relevant specialism: Geotechnical 'whole-life' monitoring and modelling - Dr Sam Stanier Robotics in construction and maintenance - Dr Fumiya Iida Risk-based inspection planning and optimal monitoring strategy - Dr Ajith Parlikad Structural health monitoring of infrastructure using satellites - Prof Cam Middleton Reconciling in-situ concrete quality with original specification - Prof Janet Lees Digital Twins for operations and maintenance - Dr Ajith Parlikad Fibre optic sensing - state of the art and future trends - Dr Cedric Kechavarzi and Phil Keenan Ultra-High Performance Fibre Reinforced Concrete (UHPFRC - Prof Janet Lees Developing computer vision and augmented reality solutions for use in planning, designing, constructing and maintaining infrastructure - Dr Ajith Parlikad and Dr Jennifer Schooling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/industry-partners-and-academics-plan-c... |
| Description | CSIC Partner Strategy day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Annual CSIC Partner Strategy day event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CSIC Research Talks |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Research Talks are held fortnightly on a wide range of topics and CSIC research projects. The talks are advertised and attending by Department of Engineering staff and students, CSIC Steering Group members and industry partners. They are also recorded and uploaded to our YouTube channel to be viewed by wider audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAkWboORuyA&list=PLOwGmQ9t72fdyuz-UoD7SYs8z1FdezrFr |
| Description | CSIC Secondment Projects Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC industry secondees present their projects and findings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC Secondment Projects Workshop - TW |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of research conducted during industry secondments to CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The CSIC Smart Infrastructure Blog shares the latest thinking from the cutting edge of smart infrastructure and construction with CSIC's series of informative and thought-provoking blogs. The monthly and multi-disciplinary blog series presents insights and comment from CSIC researchers, industry partners and associates about transforming infrastructure through smarter information and using data from real performance to enable better and sustainable decision-making. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/smart-infrastructure-blog |
| Description | CSIC Summer Partner Party |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 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 prepared a range of posters and demonstrations presenting their latest research projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC Summer Partner Party 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC was delighted to welcome colleagues from industry and other partner organisations to the in-person Summer Partner Party held at Darwin College, Cambridge. The event opened with a welcome from Professor Lord Robert Mair, Founding Head of CSIC, who highlighted the collaborative nature of the Centre's work and thanked partner organisations for their support. Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, reflected on CSIC activity over the past year, which included co-hosting a UK-US workshop with Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) on funding, financing and emerging technologies in infrastructure to improve resilience, sustainability and universal access. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | CSIC Technology and Data in Future Cities Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Technology and Data in Future Cities Incorporating the CSIC Emerging Connections workshop. The main objective of the workshop is to discuss the role of emerging digitalization processes in shaping the future of cities. In particular, we will explore the potential to improve city services through automation in the transport sector. While architects and land economists have decades of experience in planning cities and city adaptation, current trends in digitalization, the Internet of Things and mobile technologies have started to offer unprecedented fine-grained data about cities and put forward the potential of automating a good portion of urban transport. It is therefore crucial to explore the issues that more extensive use of data and automation pose on the future of our cities, focusing on how our planning, policy making, engineering and architecture strategies can make best use of them. While there is a wide-spread acknowledgement that this will require careful thinking and cooperation of the various disciplines, disciplinary silos and the compartmentalization of research and practice persist, hindering the realization of the promised benefits to citizens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/technology-and-data-in-future-cities-w... |
| Description | CSIC Workshop: Systems for methodically solving problems-Philip Keenan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | ONLINE Course: Systems for methodically solving problems. "Phil Keenan will be sharing his learnings from his training using Outcome Driven Innovation to identify what end-users of technology (customers or clients), really want, and he'll demonstrate a method that can be used to gain insights and consensus on customer needs. He will then introduce a toolset for sysematically solving problems known as TRIZ,. (Phonetically in Russian, Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch,) and in English, Theory of Inventive Problem Solving. TRIZ methodically guides the problem solving team to an ideal outcome. The course will be in three one-hour sessions, and the goal is to introduce researchers to methods that might help them gain consensus with multiple project partners, and overcome roadblocks in their research or innovation projects and should be helpful in building inclusive teams". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC roundtable at Global Engineering Congress |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC held a roundtable discussion as a fringe event at the Global Engineering Congress (GEC) at the ICE Headquarters in London. The roundtable, Smart sustainability - Data and information as engineering tools to mitigate climate change, included leading figures from the infrastructure and construction sector, academia, sustainability, finance, insurance, development and policy. The CSIC roundtable was called to discuss the subject of 'Smart sustainability - Data and information as engineering tools to mitigate climate change' and was structured around three questions to bring focus to the topic and shape content of a paper planned to capture outputs from the discussion: • How can civil engineers engage with the challenges of mitigating and responding to climate change? • What is the role of data in mitigating risk and unlocking projects? • What are the challenges and opportunities of implementing smart infrastructure solutions in a developing world context? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/csic-hosts-roundtable-at-the-global-en... |
| Description | CSIC workshop 'Computer Vision Beyond Black Boxes' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | During this online interactive workshop CSIC Researcher Vladimir Vilde discussed the different potential challenges faced during the selection, installation and the processing of computer vision (CV) techniques. Leading the workshop, which took place on Thursday 4 February 2021 Vladimir, who is researching novel solutions for infrastructure monitoring using digital twin and computer vision techniques, covered examples of CV techniques that can be used in construction by addressing limitations and opportunities. Innovations using CV in infrastructure often remain at the case study stage. Issues such as scalability, funding for long term usage, or suitability for industrial application can limit widespread adoption of new and promising technologies. Recent innovations in CV solutions have been very attractive for their accessibility and potential benefit. Deep Learning techniques are very popular in CV and can be found in applications from self-driving cars to cancer detection. Projects in construction have tried to emulate these successes, but despite returning interesting results early on, these AI techniques are known to be expensive when considering robust usage. Currently, there are too many projects in construction trying to rely solely on AI, while conventional computer vision is not properly considered. Each challenge can have a unique answer - it is unlikely that one solution fits all. This is especially true in construction and asset management, where funding can be limited: the technologies not only need to be smart with the data, but with the budget as well! Imaging techniques can be complex and are widely applied, from smartphone cameras to satellites, so considering their use on a project can appear overwhelming. They are often used as "black boxes", where AI is expected to work exactly as intended. However, smarter and more adapted solutions might be readily available if we have the tools to open these "boxes". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC-TOAF Emerging Connections Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC-TOAF Emerging Connections Workshop This year's workshop was held online in two sessions on the 7th October and 14th October. The workshop followed an interactive format facilitating insightful discussions with experts from city governments, academia, think tanks, technologists and community activists. Aligned with the mission of the DC2 programme, the sessions were aimed at unravelling the tasks, competencies and roles involved in enabling the creation of public value through responsible digital innovation in smart(er) cities. The discussions were framed around pressing urban challenges such as improving air quality, strengthening the local digital economy, emergency response and management, improving resource efficiency in cities and enhancing urban ecology. The workshop outcomes will contribute towards a TOAF-CSIC joint report setting out a Competence Framework for city managers in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | CSIC/Arup Global Smart Infrastructure Index Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC/Arup Global Smart Infrastructure Index Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | CSIC/CDBB Cybersecurity briefing and workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | CSIC held a cybersecurity briefing and workshop in collaboration with the Centre for Digital Build Britain (CDBB). Designed both for users and providers of Smart Infrastructure solutions, this briefing and workshop covered the implications of cybersecurity and explain some of the support and solutions available. The event includeed morning presentations by CDBB, CSIC, CSIC partners, government security advisors, and cyber security experts followed by afternoon workshops. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/cybersecurity-for-smart-infrastructure... |
| Description | CZPF witness session: strategic land use planning ) Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Zero Policy Forum study on local priorities for investing in resilient and sustainable infrastructure Witness session 3: strategic land use planning in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Cambridge Ahead - YJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Local business group aiming to innovate the ways in which to conduct new regional and local infrastructure investments Presentation to the CA operational board, 7 December 2016 Practical application of the CSIC smart cities analytics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Cambridge County Council Digital Twin Technical Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | The future of commuting into Cambridge, including how congestion can be reduced and air quality improved, will be explored as part of a new collaboration between CSIC and Smart Cambridge. Our research associates are working with officers from Cambridgeshire County Council's transport, sustainability and planning departments to plan how digital technology and data can be used to support decisions and make improvements. The collaboration will now focus on delivering a digital twin prototype, combining traditional urban modelling techniques, new data sources and advanced data analytics. The prototype will include the recent trends of journeys to work in Cambridge, including how people of different ages and employment status travel to work and how different factors affect their travel. It will also explore future possible journeys to work based on transport investment, housing developments and how flexible working and new technology may impact commuting. A web-based modelling platform will also visualise future development options and give people an opportunity for feedback. CSIC Research Associate Dr Timea Nochta, said: "We led a very useful workshop with council officers in December which helped us to understand local requirements and how we can deliver a digital twin prototype which responds to imminent city challenges and supports the policy goals of improving air quality and reducing congestion. "We are now working on the prototype and will deliver an initial version in eight weeks. We will continue to develop it alongside the council so that it can be used to its full potential and so that officers feel confident in asking the right questions for technology to answer." Claire Ruskin, Executive Board Member for the Greater Cambridge Partnership, and CEO of Cambridge Network, said: "We have worked together to collect and understand information before, and Smart Cambridge is delighted to be working with University teams again. We can begin developing next-generation tools for supporting plans and policies to give people alternatives to their cars to help improve journeys, reduce congestion and improve air quality in Greater Cambridge." Dan Clarke, Strategy and Partnerships Manager for Smart Cambridge said: "Digital twins have the potential to help cities develop more holistic policies which will assist in addressing some of the very real challenges urban areas face such as congestion, pollution and the need to become more sustainable." This project has been funded by the Ove Arup Foundation and the Centre for Digital Built Britain. The work of Smart Cambridge is supported by the Connecting Cambridgeshire programme, led by Cambridgeshire County Council, with investment from the Greater Cambridge Partnership. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/csic-and-smart-cambridge-plan-to-impro... |
| Description | Cambridge Festival - Inclusive systems mapping workshop - decarbonising transport in Cambridgeshire |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dr Timea Nochta, Visiting Fellow, CSIC and Assistant Professor, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham, Dr Li Wan, CSIC Investigator and Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, and Dr Louise Reardon, Associate Professor, Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham will lead this interactive mapping event. Transport is now the UK's largest carbon-emitting sector, with virtually no progress in emissions reduction since 1990. Transport contributed to 28% of total domestic greenhouse gas emissions in 2018, making it the UK's largest emitting sector. To date the sector is proving a tough nut to crack, with emissions only 3% lower than in 1990 (and higher than in 2013). To be on track towards the UK's 2050 Net Zero Carbon target, we therefore need bold and significant action. Cambridge Festival is a programme that offers a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. While low-carbon technologies are becoming widely available, research makes it evident that no two towns and cities will have the same mixture of challenges, solution options and therefore pathways to a more sustainable and less fossil-fuel-dependent transport system. Moreover, the reasons why we travel in the first place (and the means of doing so) are a result of complex intersections of social, economic and political factors. The workshop will collaboratively identify the factors that influence transport decarbonisation in Cambridgeshire and discuss options to deal with the issue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Cambridge Festival talk Smart infrastructure - what it is and why it matters |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment, launched June 2021, brings focus to our physical asset base and facilitates action and collaboration by relevant parties towards reducing carbon emissions (CO2eq) related to design, construction, maintenance, operation and decommissioning of built assets. However, there are other factors beyond physical assets that cities and communities have to grapple with because the built environment does not exist in isolation. The UK Government's target of Net Zero by 2050 is a positive step but challenging to deliver because current carbon emissions are so high. Technology will assist in reaching this goal but changes in behaviour are also necessary, influencing people at a professional level, and making a difference through our jobs. This event is part of the Department of Engineering's Community Open Day. Cambridge Festival is a programme that offers a mixture of online, on-demand and in-person events covering all aspects of the world-leading research happening at Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.festival.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Cambridge Future Cities Conference - Melanie Jans-Singh |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Cambridge Future Cities Conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cambridge Science Festival - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Public engagement event with interactive demonstrations of the technologies being developed at CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cambridge Zero Policy Forum report launch: A Blueprint for a Green Recovery-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling presented at the Cambridge Zero launch of A Blueprint for a Green Future event. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.csap.cam.ac.uk/events/green-recovery-report-launch/ |
| Description | Cambridge Zero Policy Forum's green recovery report, 'A Blueprint for a Green Future' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, is a co-author of Cambridge Zero Policy Forum's green recovery report, 'A Blueprint for a Green Future'. The multidisciplinary report was launched at a panel discussion at the week-long Cambridge Zero Climate Change Festival on 6 November and brings together ideas from senior academics from the University of Cambridge to present a series of recommendations for policymakers and industry. The Cambridge Zero Policy Forum panel discussion featured a number of the authors of the new report who talked about how we can ensure a green recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Schooling, who spoke at the Cambridge Zero panel event, said: "Despite the Covid-19 pandemic having a dramatic impact on all or lives, its impact of CO2 emissions has been relatively small. Our trajectory for recovery must not return to pre-pandemic levels - we must do more. Collaborative action will be crucial to securing the changes to reach net zero by 2050; the consequences for not acting now will be devastating for many." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.zero.cam.ac.uk/green-recovery-report |
| Description | Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The Code was launched at an online event on 17 June 2021 to Industry Partners. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/carbon-reduction-code |
| Description | Catsurveys/Osbourn - DAM project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Catsurveys/Osbourn to discuss DAM project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at the University of Cambridge appoints an 'Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel' (ECAPP) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The panel provides opportunities for career development and networking, helping future industry and academic leaders in the fields of smart infrastructure and construction to build connections with like-minded peers and senior figures drawn from across the sector. Members of the panel, which will comprise approximately eight to 10 members drawn from across academia and industry, will be invited to publish thought leadership articles through ECAPP's written output, which will find a significant readership among CSIC's academic and industry networks and through its connections to industry publications. There will be mentorship and support throughout the tenure on ECAPP from senior figures among CSIC's core leadership and Steering Group and the opportunity to participate in CSIC's various annual events, such as its Industry Partner Strategy Day. ECAPP members shall typically be at a relatively early stage of their careers - within approximately the first 10 years of graduation, or equivalent - and working in areas of relevance to CSIC. Individual circumstances, such as career breaks or changes, will be taken into consideration during the appointment process. In total, ECAPP's activities and the attendance of meetings should not consume more than six to 10 working days annually. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/who_we_are/csic-early-career-academics-and-professiona... |
| Description | Circular Economy in Infrastructure Action Group - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activities - Circular Economy in Infrastructure Action Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | City & Guilds Group, Sir John Armitt - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | UK/Australia infrastructure leadership |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Civil Engineering Surveyor - ACORN John Orr |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Civil Engineering Surveyor titled 'Automating concrete construction: digital processes for whole-life sustainability and productivity' by Dr John Orr, Lecturer in Concrete Structures and CSIC Investigator and Dr Paul Shepherd, Senior Lecturer, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, University of Bath (March 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Civil Engineering Surveyor - GIS-based infrastructure management Ajith Parlikad |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Civil Engineering Surveyor titled 'A GIS-based infrastructure management system to increase resilience of terrestrial transportation networks' by Dr Ajith Parlikad, Reader in Industrial Systems at the Institute for Manufacturing and CSIC Investigator and Dr Georgios Hadjidemetriou, CSIC Research Associate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Civil Engineering Surveyor - Game changer Dr Bingyu Zhao |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Civil Engineering Surveyor titled 'Game changer: simulating wildfire evacuations of small communities at regional scale in California' by Dr Bingyu Zhao, former CSIC PhD Researcher (March 2020) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Civil Engineering Surveyor - Intelligent Infrastructure Sam Cocking |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Civil Engineering Surveyor titled 'Intelligent Infrastructure: Bringing smarter innovation to a heritage asset' by Sam Cocking, CSIC PhD Researcher |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ces.pagelizard.co.uk/webviewer/#cesfebruary2020/intelligent_infrastructure_bringing_smarter_i... |
| Description | Civil Engineering Surveyor - Smart Sustainability Dr Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Civil Engineering Surveyor on the 'Smart Sustainability: the role of engineers and the potential of data to mitigate climate change' by Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Co-chair AMEST session on Digital Twins for Infrastructure and Construction-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling co-chaired a session on 'Digital Twins for Infrastructure and Construction' at the Advanced Maintenance Engineering, Services and Technologies 2020 Conference. The 4th IFAC AMEST'20 Workshop brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss the latest advances in digital technologies and their impact on reliability, maintenance and asset management. The workshop covered a broad range of research and application topics exploring the role of data-driven maintenance and asset management within the domains of manufacturing and infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.amest2020.eng.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Computer vision discussion group - Dr Vladimir Vilde |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Following his CSIC workshop held earlier this year and expressed interest from industry partners in forming a special interest group for Computer Vision in construction, Vladimir Vilde, Research Associate at CSIC, considers limitations and opportunities - and invites industry practitioners interested in deploying computer vision-based solutions to join the new group. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/csic-workshop-computer-vision-beyond-black-boxes-... |
| Description | Conference paper: Energy Neutral Operation of Vibration Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks for Bridge Applications - International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN'18). Madrid, Spain: ACM - David Rodenas Herraiz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Conference paper: Energy Neutral Operation of Vibration Energy-Harvesting Sensor Networks for Bridge Applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Construction as Manufacturing workshop - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Construction as Manufacturing workshop co-sponsored by CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010,2017 |
| Description | Cost & Carbon Subgroup |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A Cost and Carbon Subgroup has been formed and has been working to understand what different clients are asking for in relation to carbon reporting, what metrics are being used and developing (in collaboration with others) a consistent approach. The group has also drafted a Carbon Code for Infrastructure Sector Clients & Supply Chain Members with the objective to facilitate action (and alignment) by relevant parties towards reducing carbon emissions (CO2eq) related to design, construction, maintenance and operation of built assets. The Carbon Reduction Code of Practice, has won support from the Construction Leadership Council/Green Construction Board and is currently being trialled at the Environment Agency, the National Association of Construction Frameworks (NACF) and on HS2. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
| Description | Costain - AAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Possible deployment of macro-scale energy harvesters |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Creation of the CSIC Early Careers Academics and Professionals panel in 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC appointed an 'Early-Career Academics and Professionals Panel' (ECAPP) in June 2022 through a competitive application process. 13 members of the panel were appointed from academia and industry. 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 partners, and its broader academic network. In particular, to encourage the development of these connections between individuals at an increased range of seniorities. To provide a career development opportunity for early-career academics and professionals, through which they can meet like-minded individuals and work together to deliver a programme of activity, jointly agreed between the panel and CSIC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/who_we_are/csic-early-career-academics-and-professiona... |
| Description | Cross Railway - GB and YC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Innovation in construction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Crossrail-HS2 workshop - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Delivered Crossrail-HS2 workshop focused on the opportunities for smart infrastructure solutions in the UK rail industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Cybersecurity for Smart Infrastructure Briefing and Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Cybersecurity for Smart Infrastructure Briefing and Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Cybersecurity for Smart Infrastructure Briefing and Workshop - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop run by CSIC exploring the challenges and opportunities in cybersecurity for smart infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | DC2 Smart Cambridge workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | DC2 Smart Cambridge workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | DCLG |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Practical application of the CSIC smart cities analytics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure - City-level digital twins; governance of digital twins in cities LW/TN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with DAFNI (Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure) to discuss City-level digital twins; governance of digital twins in cities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Data and the Built Environment Profession Expert Panel - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited as an expert to a listening session focused on the link between Data and the Built Environment Profession. To gather the industry's hopes and fears when it comes to Data. Dr Jennifer Schooling was part of a group of 20 experts from the built environment profession and from the field of urban data. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Data for Policy 2020-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Timea Nochta, Noura Wahby and Jennifer Schooling presented at the 2020 Data for Policy conference on "Knowledge Politics in the Smart City". The Data for Policy conference series is the premier global forum for multiple disciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the theories, applications and implications of data science innovation in governance and the public sector. In partnership with Cambridge University Press, the conference series has also entered into a new open-access peer-reviewed journal venture, Data & Policy, in order to capture and archive scholarly discussions in this fast-growing field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://dataforpolicy.org/data-for-policy-2020/ |
| Description | Data for Policy Conference (presentation TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Timea Nochta presented at the Data for Policy Conference, University College London, London, UK (11-12 June). Title: "Evidence-informed decisionmaking in multi-stakeholder settings: The case of city digital twins for planning and management" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Department for Transport - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provision of advice, guidance and answering questions at session to delegates from the Department for Transport |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Department of Architecture - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Discussions regarding potential FOinstrumentation of timber buildings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Department of Transport - RJM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Exploring areas of how CSIC can collaborate with procurement personnel in Department of Transport to promote adoption of smart infrastructure solutions in the transport sector |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Designing Intelligence into Our Cities Symposium, organised by Royal College of Art-Timea Nochta & Li Wan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Timea Nochta and Dr Li Wan presented at the Designing Intelligence into Our Cities Symposium on "Community values and the case for value pluralism in future digital cities". Design researchers at the RCA will be hosting an online symposium to share visions of the future and to bring together an audience of designers, researchers and city-based organisations and communities. We will be running the symposium as three 2 hour sessions with talks, challenges and questions in the first session, smaller online collaborative workshops in the second session and an opportunity to present back proposals and gain feedback and potential partners in the third. Session 1: Talks, challenges and questions Session 2: Collaborative design challenge workshops Session 3: Presentations, feedback and partnerships There will be three themes for the event that span the different interests of speakers and researchers across the college: What is the future for intelligent neighbourhoods - their shape, constituent parts, networks, governance and size? How might we reimagine mobility hubs and networks as centres of community rather than purely functional transport systems? How might digital tools merge technical data with social knowledge to enable better planning for sustainable futures? We encourage participants to choose a theme and to contribute to the design research workshops by sharing your vision for the future and considering the partners and activities that you might need to make your vision happen. The symposium aims to bring together researchers and colleagues from across the RCA - from architecture and environment, product and service design, robotics, inclusive design, mobility design and virtual reality technologies - to explore underlying mobility and living needs and conceive of collaborative research topics that cross disciplines and uncover new opportunities for knowledge and innovation development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.rca.ac.uk/news-and-events/events/designing-intelligence-our-cities/ |
| Description | Digital Bridges day at King's College - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in Digital Bridges day at King's College Cambridge |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change Seminar Series |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researchers have organised a series on seminar around the theme of Digital Cities for Change. Seminar 1: James Heaton Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge 'The use of BIM and asset classification within a Smart Cities framework' Dr Isolda Agusti Juan The Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management, University College London 'Automation as an opportunity for sustainable construction' Seminar 2 - Smart(er) transport for future cities: Dr Louise Reardon University of Birmingham 'Governance of the Smart Mobility Transition' Nicole Badstuber CSIC, University of Cambridge 'Land Use and Transport Policy in London and New York' Tianren Yang Architecture, University of Cambridge 'Understanding commuting changes as a science of planning' Seminar 3 - Smart(er) cities and society Marianna Cavada Unviersity of Birmingham 'A case for truly smart cities' Aisha Sobey Architecture, University of Cambridge 'Can culture be 'smart'? The digitisation of cities and its interaction with society' Seminar 4 - Technologies and strategies of 'coping': Matt Mahmoudi University of Cambridge 'Urban technologies for refugee "integration": reproducing marginality?' Juan Canavera Herrera University of Cambridge 'Roads to adaptation: Understanding adaptation planning of urban road infrastructure' Seminar 5 - Social and technical systems in the digital age: Luke Church University of Cambridge 'Listening to people on their own terms: lessons from Africa's Voices' Junqing Tang University of Cambridge 'Measuring resilience in urban transportation systems' Seminar 6 - 'Smartening' urban planning and policy' Franziska Sielker University of Cambridge 'A new era for city planning? Innovations and barriers to digitalisation for spatial planning in the UK' Andre Neto-Bradley University of Cambridge 'Targeting interventions for clean energy transitions in urban Indian households' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/digital-cities-change-seminar-series-discusses-te... |
| Description | Digital Cities for Change workshop at Smart City Expo World Congress - Jennifer Schooling, Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Viviana Bastidas Melo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The CSIC Digital Cities for Change team hosted a workshop at the Smart City Expo World Congress in Barcelona. The workshop was titled 'Leadership for Responsible Urban Digital Innovation' and exposed participants to the knowledge needed to address competency-related challenges for the successful delivery of public value through urban digitalisation initiatives. It was led by the Digital Cities for Change (DC2) team, Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, and CSIC Research Associates Dr Kwadwo Oti-Sarpong and Dr Viviana Bastidas. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tomorrow.city/a/university-of-cambridge-and-idc-or-construction-that-maximize-urban-potentia... |
| Description | Digital Construction Week Panel-Transforming Construction Challenge JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was a panellist a the Digital Construction Week on the Transforming Construction Challenge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Digital Framework Task Group Meeting - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activity - Digital Framework Task Group Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Dr Jennifer Schooling Digital Cities for Change. Part of a series of Hub Insight interviews, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling will be talking about the CSIC project Digital Cities for Change in an interview with Sam Chorlton, Chair of the DT Hub. Part of a series of Hub Insight interviews, Dr Schooling will be joined by Gemma Schroeder, Smart Cambridge Programme Manager. The interview, which will be hosted by the Centre for Digital Built Britain's (CDBB) DT Hub on 16 February at 11.30am, will explore their work together on digital twins for Smart Cambridge led by Cambridgeshire County Council. The Smart Cambridge programme explores how new and emerging technologies and data can be used to address some of the challenges that the city faces such as congestion, poor air quality and constraints on infrastructure such as energy. The collaboration with CSIC on digital twins brings cutting edge research out of academia and begins to apply it in the real world. Dan Clarke, Digital Programme Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council CSIC's Digital Cities for Change (DC2) project, funded by the Ove Arup Foundation, explores current city and infrastructure management structures and systems. It seeks to demonstrate how built environment data and digital tools can be used to inform better and more cohesive decision-making. DC2 aims to deepen understanding of how built environment data can help improve city planning management and the delivery of public services. "The Smart Cambridge programme explores how new and emerging technologies and data can be used to address some of the challenges that the city faces such as congestion, poor air quality and constraints on infrastructure such as energy. The collaboration with CSIC on digital twins brings cutting edge research out of academia and begins to apply it in the real world," said Dan Clarke, Digital Programme Manager, Cambridgeshire County Council. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/projects-and-case-studies/dc2-digital-cities-change |
| Description | Dr Jennifer Schooling, participated in the UTS Zunz 2022 lecture on 'Resetting our cities: A new balance for a low-carbon world'. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction at Cambridge University recently participated in the UTS Zunz 2022 lecture on 'Resetting our cities: A new balance for a low-carbon world'. As part of the annual lecture series hosted by ARUP, this year's UTS Zunz convened several thought leaders and industry experts, including Ainsley Simpson, Infrastructure Sustainability Council's CEO, to focus on the challenges that our cities are facing from the global pandemic to the intensifying impacts of climate change and the pressing need to rethink urban spaces and how they will provide a resilient and sustainable future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.arup.com/news-and-events/zunz-lecture-series |
| Description | Dynapile (Malaysia) - Knowledge sharing on FO instrumentation applications NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Dynapile (Malaysia) to discuss knowledge sharing on FO instrumentation applications |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | E-futures Lecture 'Transforming the future of infrastructure - the role of sensing and data' - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited to give a lecture at the E Futures Electronics in Infrastructure event. Talk title: Transforming the future of infrastructure - the role of sensing and data Event objectives: o To inform and encourage researchers to work together to understand and address the science, technologies and commercial opportunities that Electronics in Infrastructure will present in the next few years o To create networks of interested researchers/universities that might be better able to address some of the areas of technical challenge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EDF - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with EDF, Jennifer Schooling, John Orr and Robert Mair and Dee Dee Frawley. For the HPC construction project the following topics from your current research themes are of interest to EDF Data driven decision making Data asset management Infrastructure management Mixed reality and virtual reality for construction Performance based design 3D modelling related to geo-space design and construction Ground water mapping related to impact of HPC on wider geographical area and influence on ground movement For existing EDF Nuclear Generation sites Novel approaches for monitoring and assessment of deconstruction progress for decommissioning Satellite based monitoring for asset integrity For Renewables Novel foundation for onshore wind turbines in challenging soil conditions Monitoring strategies for concrete gravity based and steel offshore wind foundation structures Novel multi-parameter sensing solutions for structural health monitoring of offshore wind foundations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EPSON - Discuss the improvement of the current sensing setup for the accelerometers HA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | EPSON - Discuss the improvement of the current sensing setup for the accelerometers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EPSON - QMEMS Accelerometers QL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with EPSON to discuss QMEMS Accelerometers |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | EPSRC NSF Online Workshop - Equity and the Role of Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participation in dedicated online sessions at this international multidisciplinary invitation only workshop being held from 11-14 July in New York City. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/online-event-epsrc-nsf-workshop-funding-financi... |
| Description | EPSRC NSF Online Workshop - Infrastructure resilience |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participation in dedicated online sessions at this international multidisciplinary invitation only workshop being held from 11-14 July in New York City. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/online-event-epsrc-nsf-workshop-funding-financi... |
| Description | EPSRC NSF Online Workshop - Net Zero Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Participation in dedicated online sessions at this international multidisciplinary invitation only workshop being held from 11-14 July in New York City. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/online-event-epsrc-nsf-workshop-funding-financi... |
| Description | EPSRC NSF Workshop - Funding, Financing and Emerging Technologies in Infrastructure to Improve Resilience, Sustainability and Universal Access 11-14 July 2023 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This EPSRC - NSF funded invitation only workshop, is being hosted by the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and the Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy (CPIP) and will assemble a small group of international experts from academia, policy and practice to explore how to improve infrastructure delivery in a post Covid world through innovative funding and financing as well as emerging technologies. In the context of major public investment in infrastructure programs, experts from infrastructure's technological, engineering, social, environmental, economic, and financial dimensions will discuss how a multi-disciplinary approach can address numerous pressing policy challenges, including infrastructure resilience in the face of climate change impacts, net zero carbon and social equity, with a view to identifying potential policy implications and research needs. The outputs of the workshop will be crafted into a series of white papers, which will be shared with a wider audience. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/events/uk-us-infrastructure-workshop-funding-financing... |
| Description | ESD 360 module in Resilience and Hazard Mitigation in Future Cities, for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Developmnt - lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling gave a lecture as part of the ESD 360 module in Resilience and Hazard Mitigation in Future Cities, for the MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Earth movement detection system trialled on HS2 - Cedric Kechavarzi - Ground Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promotion of Research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.geplus.co.uk/news/earth-movement-detection-system-trialled-on-hs2-08-09-2021/?eea=*EEA*&... |
| Description | Electro Optics - Fibre optics takes the strain in construction Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Electro Optics featured an opinion piece by CSIC Director, Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE (October 2019). 'Fibre optics takes the strain in construction' makes the case for generating richer information from sensor monitoring to secure a better understanding of the behaviour of our assets and inform decisions on materials use, waste and construction and operation processes to reduce carbon emissions. The article includes three CSIC projects analysing structural performance using fibre optic monitoring including: 'Monitoring performance of reinforced concrete piles' and 'Optimising the design of sprayed concrete linings', led by CSIC Research Associate Nicholas de Battista; and 'Improving the understanding and capacity of existing assets', by CSIC PhD student Sam Cocking. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Engineering masterclass 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Engineering Masterclasses provide Year 12 students with an opportunity to explore topics of interest beyond what is covered within the A Level syllabus and offer the chance to experience typical undergraduate teaching at Cambridge. I delivered a lecture on 'Protecting Venice' engaging the students on concepts from the soil mechanics curriculum applied to practical and relevant problems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | English Heritage / Historic England - MSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Sensing technologies, data interpretation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Environmental Agency - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring the erosion, scour and stability of embankment during overtopping and overflowing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | FBG sensor development - Proof of concept - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | FBG sensor development - Proof of concept |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | FIBE CDT Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling gave a lecture on Transforming the future of infrastructure - the role of sensing and data to FIBE CDT students. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | FIBE Industry Day - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Attendance at Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE-CDT) industry day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | FIDIC International Infrastructure Conference - JMS invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited to present at the FIDIC International Infrastructure Conference on 'Innovative Approaches to Investing in Smart Infrastructure' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | FO suppliers (Brugg, Omnisens, Febus Optics) NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions regarding development of DFOS strain sensing cable, FO spectrum analyser |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Febus - Improvements to Febus analyser CK/PK/PRAF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Febus to discuss improvements to Febus analyser |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Festival of BIM and Digital Construction Webinar Panel-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | PANEL DISCUSSION: How Can We Better Capture, Manage and Integrate Data to Facilitate Modelling Technologies, Like BIM and Digital Twins, to Not Only Build Better but to Ensure Resilience? Moderator: Nathan Doughty, CEO, Asite Panellists: Jennifer Schooling, Director at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction Jennifer Whyte, Director, Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation Amy Lindsay, Global Data Architecture, Laing O'Rourke |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.workcast.com/register?cpak=6686702659518443 |
| Description | Fibre Optic Sensing Association (presentation NdB) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Nicky de Battista presentated CSIC projects on fibre optic applications at the Fibre Optic Sensing Association (FOSA) meeting. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Flourishing Systems |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Academia, government and industry have come together to publish a new white paper, Flourishing Systems, calling for a fundamental change in how we view and run our nation's infrastructure in the face of climate change and the socio-economic recovery from Covid-19. The central ideas in the paper are simple and radical: that the purpose of infrastructure is human flourishing, therefore infrastructure should be viewed and managed as a system of systems that serves people and the environment. The paper is jointly published by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) at the University of Cambridge, with the support of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Institution of Engineering and Technology and the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Its development was supported by over 30 key experts and influencers from industry, government and academia. Meeting the net-zero carbon by 2050, enabling the circular economy and investing in infrastructure to level up prosperity and well-being across the country are systemic challenges that require immediate and collaborative action. To do this, the paper sets out a systems-based, people-focused view of infrastructure with a focus on: People - the key purpose of infrastructure is to support and serve society, we must get better at understanding and delivering the interconnected social, environmental and economic outcomes needed for human flourishing. Connections - infrastructure has become a complex, sociotechnical, interconnected system of systems. That should be reflected in the way we run the industry through a systems based strategy for national infrastructure and new metrics for infrastructure performance. Sustainability - it will become increasingly difficult to sustain infrastructure and society unless the system itself becomes sustainable, secure and resilient. This requires us to consider how each asset-level intervention affects the system, a make a deliberate move towards the circular economy in infrastructure. Digitalisation - bringing digital and physical assets together to create cyber-physical systems - smart infrastructure. We must recognise digital assets, such as data, information, algorithms and digital twins, as genuine 'assets', which have value and must be managed effectively. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/files/flourishing-systems_final_digital.pdf |
| Description | Flourishing Systems - Report and Webinar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | On May 12 2020, the IET launched Flourishing Systems through a digital webinar, giving audiences an opportunity to meet some of the contributors and to enquire of their thinking on the topic. We were joined by over 100 participants from a range of different industries. This paper is a collaborative effort led by the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB) and Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) and advocates a vision for infrastructure that is: people-focused - recognising the fundamental role of infrastructure in the social, economic and environmental outcomes that determine the quality of people's lives systems-based - recognising infrastructure as a complex, interconnected system of systems that must deliver continuous service to society |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Forth Road Bridge - AAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Limited deployment of vibration energy harvesting powered sensor nodes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Fotech Solutions - Distributed Acoustic Sensing HA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Fotech Solutions to discuss distributed acoustic sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Future Cities Catapult - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Member of Future Cities Catapult's Hyperconnected Cities project steering group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017,2018 |
| Description | Future of London - Smart city development at the Royal Docks in London LW/TN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Future of London to discuss Smart city development at the Royal Docks in London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | GeoBusiness Forum - JMS invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited to present at the GeoBusiness Forum at Business Design Centre on 'The future of industry: Developing a strategy for smart infrastructure-A whole life approach to infrastructure design' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Geobusiness - panel session that follows to discuss: The Future of the industry |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | GEO Business panel session member discussing the future of the industry |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Geocisa - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Slop/embankment monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Geocisa / Dragados Training in FBG sensing 26-Jul-17 - Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Geocisa / Dragados Training in FBG sensing 26-Jul-17 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Geospatial Engineering 2019 - On track: Fibre optic sensing for safer real-time rockfall monitoring of rail cuttings |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC's award winning collaborative project designing an early warning solution for slope failures at a mainline railway cutting was featured in the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors Geospatial Engineering 2019-2020. The article 'On track: Fibre optic sensing for safer real-time rockfall monitoring of rail cuttings' describes the project between CSIC, Network Rail and BAM Nuttall to devise a solution to the problem of landslide monitoring at Hooley Cutting, 25km south of London, which carries the main railway line from London to Brighton through the North Downs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020 |
| Description | Geotechnical group, ARUP London office - GB and YJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Observational Method |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Give Brains to Buildings, TU Delft Keynote |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Seminar |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Global OFSS task group - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Llead author on one of the guidance documents |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Greater London Authority - YJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Practical application of the CSIC smart cities analytics |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Growing underground |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Growing Underground, the project led by CSIC Investigator Dr Ruchi Choudhary, is said to be a 'green revolution', which is 'powered by data' in a new feature published by the University of Cambridge. Cambridge researchers are working alongside the founders of the underground farm - located 120 ft below the busy streets of Clapham in London - to create the best conditions for growing crops, with the aim of supplying zero carbon food. The article includes an interview with PhD student Melanie Jans-Singh on the digital twin set up to monitor and feedback information to help the farm operate in optimum conditions. A video on the project also gives an inside view of the farm. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Growing underground Ruchi Choudhary talk on the project as part of the Cambridge Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Growing Underground, the project led by CSIC Investigator Dr Ruchi Choudhary, is said to be a 'green revolution', which is 'powered by data' in a new feature published by the University of Cambridge. Cambridge researchers are working alongside the founders of the underground farm - located 120 ft below the busy streets of Clapham in London - to create the best conditions for growing crops, with the aim of supplying zero carbon food. The article includes an interview with PhD student Melanie Jans-Singh on the digital twin set up to monitor and feedback information to help the farm operate in optimum conditions. A video on the project also gives an inside view of the farm. Dr Choudhary is presenting a talk on the project as part of the Cambridge Festival on Friday (2 April) at 2pm |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Guangdong Provincial Programme (lecture TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Timea Nochta gave a guest lecture on CISL China - Guangdong Provincial Programme entitled "Sustainable and Smart Cities" (24 July 2019) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | HS2 - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DFOS instrumentation of piles for making pile design more efficient. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | HS2 - Sinkhole detection PK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with HS2 to discuss sinkhole detection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | HS2 Innovation Forum - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Member of HS2 Innovation Forum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | HS2 tests fibre optic tech to detect ground movement - BIM+ Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promotion of research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.bimplus.co.uk/hs2-tests-fibre-optic-tech-to-detect-ground-movement/ |
| Description | HS2 trialling fibre optic tech to head off subsidence and ground movement - Cedric Kechavarzi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promotion of research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mediacentre.hs2.org.uk/news/hs2-trialling-fibre-optic-tech-to-head-off-subsidence-and-ground... |
| Description | HS2 trials new CSIC co-developed fibre optic technology to improve monitoring - Cedric Kechavarzi - New Civil Engineer |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Promotion of research |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/network-rail-and-hs2-look-to-fibre-optic-technology-to-monit... |
| Description | Haringey City Council |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Carbon Management of Buildings |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Herald Conference (presentation NdB) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Nicky de Battista gave a presentation at the Herald Conference at Anglia Ruskin on local governance of digital technology research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Hertfordshire County Council - ZhL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | (1) Asset management for bridge networks. (2) Improve deterioration model for bridges with inspections data. (3) Prioritize maintenance activities for 11 bridges along A10 in Hertfordshire. (4) Group maintenance activities to reduce the traffic management cost in the bridge network. (5) They have agreed on future support on providing historical principle and general inspections data for the 11 bridges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Hertfordshire county council /Keith Harwood - ZhL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Asset management for bridge networks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Highways England Smart Assets meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Highways England Smart Assets meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Highways UK - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Speaker on panel at Highways UK - panel discussion on the potential impacts and opportunities presented by new technology on strategic roads to inform the planners, builders and operators of the UK's road network |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2017 |
| Description | His Royal Highness The Duke of York visit to the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | His Royal Highness The Duke of York visited the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction. A number of CSIC Research Associates presented the latest research projects and deployments in smart infrastructure and construction to The The Duke of York. These included: • demonstration of fibre optic sensing on CSIC's model of a self-sensing bridge featuring wireless and acoustic sensors • monitoring heritage buildings in London during adjacent tunneling • analysis techniques to make sense of vast quantities of data • integrating urban farming into derelict spaces and optimising the use of underground spaces within densely populated cities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/his-royal-highness-the-duke-of-york-kg... |
| Description | His Royal Highness The Duke of York, KG, visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The Head of CSIC, Professor Lord Robert Mair and 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 of York supports a number of science and technology organisations, including being a Patron of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), to promote and raises awareness of British expertise to support initiatives which attract increased investment into UK science, technology and engineering. Lord Mair said: "We are delighted to welcome The Duke of York to the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing. Housed in the new Civil Engineering Building, and part of the UKCRIC portfolio of collaborative research and innovation facilities, NRFIS marks a significant step in enabling the UK to design, build and maintain infrastructure which is more resilient, adaptable and sustainable. NRFIS is a resource where academia and industry can engage in research to optimise the country's infrastructure base and support the UK to be a leader in the field of smart infrastructure. "The UK needs to invest in infrastructure and its associated services which are so important to the people using it every day. We welcome HRH to NRFIS and the new Civil Engineering Building which will host collaboration between industry and researchers to improve, protect and grow the UK infrastructure base." During his tour of the new NRFIS facilities which focus on the research and application of advanced sensor technologies to optimise the design, construction, and maintenance of the UK's existing and future infrastructure, HRH met a number of academics and researchers who presented a range of innovative research projects and deployments. Dr Nicky de Battista, Research Associate at the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC) gave an introduction to the instrumentation of the new Civil Engineering Building, which features six sensor packages from the roof to the foundations. The sensors are an integral part of ongoing CSIC research developing technologies to assess the performance of the new building against the predictions made during design. This information can be used to better understand performance and inform future design. HRH visited the CSIC lab where Dee Dee Frawley, CSIC Programme Manager, explained the collaborative way CSIC works with industry, associated organisations and policy to accelerate implementation of research outputs that deliver greater efficiency in asset design and performance, a low-carbon society, sustainable urban planning and management and improved productivity. The new laboratory facilities enable CSIC to extend its programme of research projects, industry deployments, training and workshops. Paul Fidler, CSIC Computer Associate and Dr Xiaomin Xu, CSIC Research Associate, presented an award-winning rockfall warning system using fibre optic technology implemented at Hooley Cutting, near south London. Collaborating with Network Rail, CSIC researchers designed and trialled two bespoke systems for the 30m-deep cutting slope to provide an early warning of slope failures on the network. Many CSIC Investigators and colleagues also presented research projects to The Duke. Professor Janet Lees introduced HRH to the Structures laboratory and current research including demonstration of concrete elements that mitigate CO2 emissions. Professor Campbell Middleton, Director of the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, and Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Director of the Construction Information Technology laboratory, spoke about the drive to digitise infrastructure and demonstrated a range of technologies including digital twin virtual reality. The visit concluded with three fast-paced and visual presentations: Sakthy Selvakumaran, Researcher at the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, presented her research on the satellite monitoring of infrastructure; Dr Timea Nochta, CSIC Research Associate, presented the Smart City Project developing a city-level digital twin; and Ioanna Papanikolaou, a Future Infrastructure and Built Environment (FIBE) PhD researcher presented on nature-inspired infrastructure. Commending The Duke of York for his interest in and visit to NRFIS, Lord Mair said: "As an ambassador for technology and engineering, His Royal Highness appreciates the significant opportunities offered by advancements in digital technologies. As we face global challenges, including climate change, population growth and rapid urbanisation, it is the work of civil engineers which will provide solutions to these challenges helping to change the lives of millions of people for the better." The Duke was presented to Professor John Dennis, Head of School, Dr Shui Lam, Secretary of the School, Professor Richard Prager, Head of the Department of Engineering, Professor Simon Guest, Head of Civil Engineering, and Professor Giulia Viggiani, NRFIS Academic Lead. HRH was accompanied by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire, Mrs Julie Spence OBE QPM, and Lord-Lieutenant's Cadets, Cadet SSgt Eleanor Phipps and Leading Cadet Matthew Smith, and presented to Councillor Mac McGuire, Chairman of Cambridgeshire County Council, and Councillor Gerri Bird, Mayor of Cambridge. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/his-royal-highness-duke-york-kg-visits-csic-labor... |
| Description | How sustainable is the UK's infrastructure programme? Jennifer Schooling article in Raconteur |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Acknowledging the challenge of infrastructure as one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions, the article, titled 'How sustainable is the UK infrastructure programme?' and part of a Raconteur special report in association with The Times, sets out the criticality of decarbonising energy, heating and transport to secure a low-carbon future and net-zero emissions and highlights the role of carbon capture and storage technology to achieve net zero. Dr Schooling stresses the importance of infrastructure built with as close to zero carbon emissions as possible: "Nothing we're currently doing is green enough; the scale of ambition is not big enough. We are living in the middle of a climate crisis, but we're not doing enough about it. It's time to stop moving the deckchairs around on the ship and to see the iceberg dead ahead. This crisis will be solved only by major concerted action globally." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.raconteur.net/infrastructure/uk-infrastructure-sustainability/ |
| Description | Humber Bridge Board - PRAF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | monitoring in the Hessle anchorage (and previous monitoring at Ferriby Road) re turning the bridge into a visitor attraction, with visitors being able to walk around the anchorage - where they will see CSIC monitoring equipment |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | IABSE conference (Vancouver, Canada) - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Disseminating research to industry and academia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ICE Cambridgeshire evening talk - Nicky de Battista |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | ICE Cambs evening talk |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ICE Cambs branch meeting (Cambridge) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of research to civil engineering community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ICE Digital Advisory Board - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Digital Advisory Board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ICE Round Table on Security for Information Management - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Panel member on ICE Round Table on Security for Information Management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ICE State of the Nation Report: Infrastructure and the Net-Zero Target Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling participated in the ICE State of the Nation Report: Infrastructure and the Net-Zero Target Workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | ICE Tunneling Exhibition - PTK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | ICE Tunneling Exhibition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | ICE/CDBB National Digital Twin Day (presentation JMS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling presented at The National Digital Twin Day. The National Digital Twin Day will shine a light on how digital twin thinking can drive more value from data, maximise infrastructure performance and deliver better outcomes for society. Delegates will hear from the built environment's digital leadership, CDBB's Digital Framework Task Group (DFTG), on the pathway to better information management plus features and benefits of digital twins. The event programme offers guidance on digital twin adoption through a series of interactive afternoon workshops, including: Digital Twins Explained - a workshop aimed at delegates who have little-to-no experience or knowledge of digital twins, and want to gain a basic understanding of their features and benefits Digital Twin Early Adopters - a workshop aimed at those who are at the outset of utilising digital twins on real projects, and want to share ideas and learning experiences with fellow early adopters Digital Twins Enhanced - a workshop aimed at digital twin hub pioneers and owners, who want to fine-tune their approach and gain further understanding from fellow digital twin leaders The event, part of CDBB Week, aims to drive collaboration between government, academia and industry, offering delegates unique opportunities to forge new business relationships with digital twin pioneers. By attending this event, you will: Understand industry's direction of travel on digital transformation Gain insight into owner challenges and how digital twin solutions can meet their needs Visualise digital twin solutions and the benefits they can offer Gain real examples/lessons into how to break down challenge areas Meet digital transformation experts and get to know the digital twin marketplace |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | http://www.ice.org.uk/eventarchive/national-digital-twin-day |
| Description | ICG Digital Transformation Task Group - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | ICG Digital Transformation Task Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | IDBE MSt course (lecture TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher, Dr Timea Nochta gave a guest lecture on IDBE MSt course entitled "Future Cities are Smart" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | IPPA International Conference on Public Policy (presentation TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Timea Nochta presentation at the IPPA International Conference on Public Policy, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada (26-28 June). Title: "Exploring Nexus Problems: Critical Perspectives on the Problems of Policy Interdependencies" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | ISNGI / UKCRIC - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | International Symposia for Next Generation Infrastructure ISNGI - a conference bringing together industry, government and academia which seeks to establish international and interdisciplinary research collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Imetrum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Training for 3D stereo, new sensing technologies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Inclusive systems mapping workshop - decarbonising transport in Cambridgeshire - Timea Nochta and Li Wan - Cambridge Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Festival - diverse audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Industry Strategy Day - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Industry partners attended the strategy day to explore ideas for future collaborations |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Infrastructure Intelligence - CSIC Distinguished Lecture Dr Anne Kemp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | An article written by Dr Anne Kemp OBE, based upon her CSIC Distinguished Lecture, was published in Infrastructure Intelligence (21 June 2019). The article titled 'Engaging our conscience to explore the future' draws attention to the potential of smarter infrastructure to support a healthier and more prosperous society but raises questions about the ethics required to safeguard data use and how to ensure that, as humans, we remain an essential part of the decision-making process. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Infrastructure Intelligence article - Collaborate to achieve net zero - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | An article presenting the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment written by Dr Jennifer Schooling calls for commitment to collaborative action to achieve net zero. Following the publication of the Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment Issue 1.0 on 15 June, industry title Infrastructure Intelligence has published an article written by CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling explaining the development of and need for the Code, which is jointly published by the Construction Leadership Council (CLC) as part of the Council's Construct Zero initiative and CSIC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.infrastructure-intelligence.com/article/jul-2021/collaborate-achieve-net-zero |
| Description | Innovate 17 - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Panel member at Innovate 2017 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Innovate UK visit to CSIC - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of research to public body |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW)-Jennifer Schooling Interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC discusses infrastructure in all its complexities in an interview published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) as part of its new Viewpoint series on infrastructure and the economy. Explaining the ways in which CSIC works to accelerate the development of smart infrastructure solutions and services to real industry challenges and drive sustainable impact in infrastructure - both new and existing - Dr Schooling said: "A beautiful bridge may be spectacular as an engineering feat but really it is just part of this bigger system of providing a service. We are moving away from the idea that we've just got to maintain all these physical assets, to the idea that we've got to provide a service to customers. Making this shift enables you to start to perceive and map the assets and their importance in a slightly different way. That's where the value of understanding the condition of an asset comes in - because it's part of this critical system which provides a service." Asked about the importance of infrastructure, Dr Schooling reflects on the critical role infrastructure has in supporting a flourishing and sustainable society and economy: "Infrastructure is only there to serve society. For governments to be successful, and for the societies they run to flourish, they need effective and sustainable infrastructure. And in places where the infrastructure is missing, it's very difficult to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals around health and poverty, for example." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2021/jan-2021/infrastructure-investment-thinki... |
| Description | Instrumentation & Monitoring conference (London) - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Disseminated research to audience of industry leaders |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | International Conference on Infrastructure, Growth and Development - JMS invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited to present at the International Conference on Infrastructure, Growth and Development on "Smart Infrastructure - the role of data in reducing risk and delivering value from infrastructure" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The 2019 International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) brought together world-leading academics and practitioners from the fields of infrastructure planning, asset management and sensing. The unique combination of fields and disciplines focusing on the power of smarter information will provide opportunities to confront persistent barriers and develop novel, proactive solutions. A combination of plenary and parallel sessions reviewed the overarching issues and focus on the interconnected subject matter, providing ample opportunity for questions and informal discussion to enable delegates to assess the relevance of issues to their own sectors and disciplines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.icsic2019.eng.cam.ac.uk/ |
| Description | Interview for CNBC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | CNBC filmed our work on Growing Underground |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Intra-Team IT Consultants Ltd - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | BIM for infrastructure asset management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Isaac Physics Lecture (to sixth form students) Why infrastructure matters and how data helps us to deliver better services from infrastructure - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Isaac Physics Lecture (to sixth form students) Why infrastructure matters and how data helps us to deliver better services from infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jacobs - Sinkhole detection JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Jacobs to discuss sinkhole detection |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Jenifer Schooling part of panel discussing 'Creating smart infrastructure' at the 2021 Infrastructure Ireland online conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The one-day conference, organised by Eolas magazine, will consider how to deliver the next generation of infrastructure, from healthcare and housing to communications, transport and energy. In the context of investing in a post-Covid recovery and need for resilience and adaptation in infrastructure, the presentations and panels will explore how innovation, digital technologies and infratech can drive greater efficiency and effectiveness and help extend the lifespan of infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling - Director of CSIC presents inaugural Distinguished Lecture at Center for Infrastructure Resilience in Cities as Liveable Environments 'Flourishing Systems: Transforming the future of our built environment through smarter information' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 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 flourish. Titled 'Flourishing Systems: Transforming the future of our built environment through smarter information', the lecture, which Dr Schooling presented remotely in July 2021 and is now available to view online, brought focus to the abundance of data in the world and our ability to digitally capture data about our buildings and infrastructure assets in a way which was not possible even 20 years ago. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://mediaspace.illinois.edu/media/t/1_gtz092ig |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling - Speaker at National Association of Construction Frameworks (NACF) webinar about how public sector procurement is evolving to maximise the reduction of carbon in the built environment |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The webinar, on 12 May at 11am, will highlight how public sector procurement is moving towards net zero, how the construction industry is innovating in response and why it's time to take action that counts. The public sector, which controls more than 26% of construction work (worth over £30 billion a year) can drive real change. But translating a climate emergency policy into the physical delivery of a care programme, new school, leisure centre or housing stock can be challenging. The CSIC-hosted Carbon Reduction Code for the Built Environment (which forms part of the Construction Leadership Council's Construct Zero initiative), is key to supporting the NACF to support clients in the net zero delivery of projects. The NACF is one of six organisations announced as early adopters of the Code in March 2022. "Understanding the issues faced by public sector organisations, many of whom have declared their own climate emergencies, spurred the NACF members on to understand what that means in terms of practical and economically viable delivery at a local level, and what the NACF can do to better support clients to achieve their net zero obligations through the support and commitment of contractor partners," said Peter Yates, Vice Chairman, NACF and Regional Framework Director at Constructing West Midlands (CWM). The webinar will feature a number of short presentations by leading professionals championing carbon reduction in the built environment and will shine a light on the benefits of public and private sectors collaborating to drive towards net zero procurement. Speakers include Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, and Sara Barnes, Preconstruction & Marketing Manager, Interclass, Chris Clarke and Emma Bull, NACF Environmental Leads and Gavin Marshall, Sustainable Procurement Manager, Orbis Procurement. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/smart-infrastructure-blog/june-2021-supporting-carbon-... |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling - cover story of the Autumn issue of Partnerships Bulletin 'Getting smarter' focuses on smart infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The article considers the role of technology in smart infrastructure, future funding models, data security and taking a whole life view of assets. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/csic-features-cover-story-smart-infrastructure-pa... |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling Opening address at the Smart Geotechnics conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Using Digital Technologies to manage geotechnical assets and achieve net zero, the session explored the uses of digital technologies to establish a smart and sustainable infrastructure industry, reduces carbon, increase resilience and preserve resources. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling discusses Infrastructure investment: thinking in systems with ICAEW as part of its new Viewpoint series on infrastructure and the economy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC discusses infrastructure in all its complexities in an interview published by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) as part of its new Viewpoint series on infrastructure and the economy. Explaining the ways in which CSIC works to accelerate the development of smart infrastructure solutions and services to real industry challenges and drive sustainable impact in infrastructure - both new and existing - Dr Schooling said: "A beautiful bridge may be spectacular as an engineering feat but really it is just part of this bigger system of providing a service. We are moving away from the idea that we've just got to maintain all these physical assets, to the idea that we've got to provide a service to customers. Making this shift enables you to start to perceive and map the assets and their importance in a slightly different way. That's where the value of understanding the condition of an asset comes in - because it's part of this critical system which provides a service." Asked about the importance of infrastructure, Dr Schooling reflects on the critical role infrastructure has in supporting a flourishing and sustainable society and economy: "Infrastructure is only there to serve society. For governments to be successful, and for the societies they run to flourish, they need effective and sustainable infrastructure. And in places where the infrastructure is missing, it's very difficult to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals around health and poverty, for example." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.icaew.com/insights/viewpoints-on-the-news/2021/jan-2021/infrastructure-investment-thinki... |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling gives CAPE Advanced Technology Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Several times a year, the Centre for Advanced Photonics and Electronics (CAPE) organises lectures on topics of current interest to its Partners from a range of distinguished speakers, including Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director of CSIC, who presented the lecture titled 'Developments in Smart Infrastructure and Construction'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoC7FqQiyn4 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling presented at Cambridge Cleantech event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling contributed on built environment - Digital Cities for Change project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling presented at Sustainable Digital Concrete session |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at Sustainable Digital Concrete session |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling presenting Smart Infrastructure at UK BIM Alliance conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling presenting Smart Infrastructure at UK BIM Alliance conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling spoke at Green Infrastructure Week on Green Finance |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling spoke about the application of and especially the development of technology in underpinning asset management and therefore way that project finance funding occurs. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Jennifer Schooling took part in 'Constructive Conversations' panel at Transforming Construction Network plus event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling took part in 'Constructive Conversations' panel at Transforming Construction Network plus event |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Joint ICE-Topcon Lecture - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was a panellist for the Joint ICE-Topcon Lecture on 'What are the barriers to change in the construction industry?' The event examined the most common barriers across businesses large and small and how challenges and opinions differ across of senior and ground teams. Speakers presented lessons from sectors that are leading the way in adopting new technology and processes and the key issues identified in the report - including fostering collaboration, up-skilling workforces and focusing on training. Speakers talked through how they've successfully integrated these new aspects into their own businesses and how they've overcome the barriers they faced. With a focus on how we as an industry can evolve, the lecture and subsequent audience discussion debateed the next best steps into ensuring better adoption of new processes and technology, providing practical examples and take-back-to-the-office actions for implementing change. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ice.org.uk/topconlecture |
| Description | Kier - Structures and sinkholes PK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Kier to discuss structures and sinkholes |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Korean Expressways Corporation meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Korean Expressways Corporation meeting with Jennifer Schooling |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Laser scanning for movement detection - Proof of concept - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | TopCon new application of laser scanning for structural monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Lecture on 'Monitoring Civil Infrastructure' - Nicky de Battista |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Lecture had a particular focus on applications of distributed fibre optic sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Lecture on Engineering for Sustainable Development masters course - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lecture on Engineering for Sustainable Development Masters course at Cambridge University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Life Sciences Innovation: Building the Fourth Industrial Revolution Mingda Yuan. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | A new report titled 'Life Sciences Innovation: Building the Fourth Industrial Revolution', which presents international experts from across the life sciences industry to join the dots between investors, academics and the real estate sector, features a case study completed as part of a CSIC industry secondment with global design practice Perkins & Will. Titled 'High Growth Communities' (p.51 in the report), the case study is authored by Andrea Imaz, Senior Urban Designer at Perkins & Will and CSIC Researcher Mingda Yuan. Part of a secondment with both CSIC and The Alan Turing Institute, the study analyses hotspots of sci-tech and life sciences companies across the Oxford-Cambridge arc, the Cambridge Norwich Tech Corridor and London's northern periphery. We approached this secondment as an opportunity to improve our data analysis knowledge and provide better informed-design processes to the communities and employment locations we work with. During the process we have been able to assess our analytical methodologies and identify valuable metrics to be implemented as performance indicators for sustainable and resilient urban design projects or planning policies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://blackstock.co.uk/insights/life-sciences-innovation-building-the-fourth-industrial-revolution... |
| Description | Line of Sight article in Infrastructure Intelligence - Jennifer Schooling and David Philp |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 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 Director at the Construction Innovation Hub, David Philp, |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | http://www.infrastructure-intelligence.com/article/nov-2021/line-sight |
| Description | Line of Sight workshop on South Staffordshire Water - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activity - Line of Sight workshop on South Staffordshire Water |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | London South Bank University (LSBU) School of Built Environment and Architecture's fourth Seminar in its Climate Emergency Events Series will ask: 'How on Earth is the Built Environment sector going to meet the monumental challenge that lies ahead? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The London South Bank University (LSBU) School of Built Environment and Architecture's fourth Seminar in its Climate Emergency Events Series will ask: 'How on Earth is the Built Environment sector going to meet the monumental challenge that lies ahead?' on Thursday 22 April, which is World Earth Day. There is huge potential for new data and analytics to contribute towards the decarbonisation of the civil engineering sector and enhance the resilience of infrastructure and the built environment to the impacts of climate change. Using data as an engineering tool will lead to better-informed, sustainably-grounded decisions to reduce resource use and ensure our assets function long into the future. Dr Jennifer Schooling Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE, Director of CSIC, will be part of the panel discussion and will talk about systems thinking in infrastructure. Highlighting the need to change the way the infrastructure and construction industries view data - a vital asset in its own right - Dr Schooling will consider data as an engineering tool for tackling the key challenges facing the industry, such as climate change, resource constraint and resilience - as set out in the CSIC Smart Sustainability paper. "There is huge potential for new data and analytics to contribute towards the decarbonisation of the civil engineering sector and enhance the resilience of infrastructure and the built environment to the impacts of climate change," said Dr Schooling. "Using data as an engineering tool will lead to better-informed, sustainably-grounded decisions to reduce resource use and ensure our assets function long into the future." The panel will also include: Alex Rainbow, from Cornwall Council, who will talk about 'Adopting and Adapting the Doughnut' based on Kate Raworth's book titled "Doughnut Economics"; Cat Drew, Chief Design Officer, Design Council, will offer insights from the 'Design in the Public Sector' programme which equips councils with the support and skills to respond to the many complex challenges caused by climate change; Ashley Bateson, MSc, CEng, CEnv, FCIBSE, MEI Partner and Head of Sustainability, Hoare Lea & Vice President of CIBSE, who will share the latest thinking about how the climate emergency is impacting the sector; and Mike Darby, CEO at Demand Logic, who will talk about the role data will play in creating a resilient future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | London Underground - JT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wheel-rail roughness measurement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | London Underground - RJM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Demonstration of innovative fibre optic monitoring of heritage masonry buildings affected by Bank Station Capacity Upgrade project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Low cost fibre optic analyser - DC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mk1 prototype analysed and areas for improvement regarding minimising size, weight and cost were identified. The priority was to contain all components within a single unit, therefore a small, low cost pulse generator was designed to replace the external desk mounted device. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | MACE - FO monitoring opportunities for infrastructure and construction NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with MACE to discuss fibre optic monitoring opportunities for infrastructure and construction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | MIT International Workshop on Data Centric Engineering |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Engineering experts from around the world are gathering at MIT, in Cambridge USA to discuss how data-centric methods can empower engineering research, education and the professional practice. Their goal is to identify salient engineering challenges and their associated methodological thrusts that will offer value, opportunity and impact in the years to come. World-renowned speakers, including Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC, who work at the interface of an engineering discipline and data-centric methodologies will present their perspectives to an audience formed of leading researchers from academia, industry and government sectors. Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, University of Cambridge and Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering at the Alan Turing Institute, chairs the organising committee for the workshop and CSIC Investigators Dr Matthew DeJong, Assistant Professor Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Materials (now at University of California, Berkeley), and Dr Ioannis Brilakis, Reader in Construction Engineering, Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology, University of Cambridge, are part of the organising committee. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/head-csic-speak-international-workshop-data-centr... |
| Description | Manu Sasidharan - UK5G Innovation Network's latest post entitled 'Faces of 5G', |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Blog 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 Culture, Media and Sports, harnesses the technology of the 5G Internet of Things (IoT) to reduce unplanned downtime of cranes and increase the efficiency of ship-to-shore quay cranes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://uk5g.org/5g-updates/read-articles/faces-of-5g-a-day-in-the-life-of-manu-sasidharan/ |
| Description | Mark Girolami How sharing data is helping fight the spread of Covid-19 in the UK article in Microsoft On the Issues |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Odysseus, a collaborative project led by The Alan Turing Institute, is featured by Microsoft On the Issues, the organisation's global public affairs content hub that explores ways technology impacts society. The article, written by Katharine Rooney, brings focus to the rapid redeployment of a Turing study monitoring air quality in London to respond to the coronavirus pandemic as London went into lockdown in March 2020. The idea was really to try and identify synergies between all of these datasets, and exploit those to get more information than perhaps just looking at one single dataset. Professor Mark Girolami Codenamed Odysseus, the project was led by a Turing team including Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at the University of Cambridge, Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering at the Turing, and academic lead at both CSIC and the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB). Working with the London Data Commission and City Hall, the Odysseus team gathered behavioural information - how busy the capital was and public responses to government interventions - from existing open data sets, including traffic monitoring videos, to support planning and decision-making by London authorities. "The idea was really to try and identify synergies between all of these datasets, and exploit those to get more information than perhaps just looking at one single dataset," said Professor Girolami of Odysseus, that used cloud-based infrastructure built as part of ongoing Microsoft-supported research at Turing, as well as statistical machine learning and AI. The success of the project and actionable insights offered by data-driven analysis and open data is reflected in the interest in adopting the same approach by other city authorities in the UK and further afield. Outputs from Odysseus are already providing significant insights on public behaviour and commercial impact enabling planners to have early signs of behavioural changes. Data collected by the team will also enable retrospective studies of social behaviour and help to shape decision-making supporting positive and equitable recovery. The article also outlines Microsoft's collaborative activity as part of its Open Data campaign launched in April 2020 that aims to close the data divide and address a number of societal issues including the educational impact of COVID-19 restrictions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/how-sharing-data-helping-fight-covid-19-and-shape... |
| Description | Mark Girolami Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering, spotlight on Alan Turing Institute website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Spotlight on Mark Girolami |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www.turing.ac.uk/people/spotlights/mark-girolami |
| Description | Mark Girolami features in issue of Civil Engineering Surveyor (CES) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 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. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://journals.cices.org/ces/ces-december-2021-january-2022/features/the-data-centric-engineering-... |
| Description | Meeting on carbon Code with Andrew Crudgington of CIHT - Dee Dee Frawley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activity - Meeting on carbon Code with Andrew Crudgington of CIHT |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting the Climate Emergency Challenge in the Built Environment Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Ahead of the UN Conference on Climate Change (Cop26) - to be held in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021, Mace - in partnership with the North West Construction Hub and Manchester City Council - held a webinar on 15 July 2021 entitled 'Meeting the Climate Emergency Challenge in the Built Environment'. The virtual event discussed how local authorities and public sector organisations can address the climate emergency and achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050 while providing essential services in local communities. CSIC director, Dr Jennifer Schooling, was part of the expert panel, comprising Dave Wakelin (Sustainability Operations Director, Mace), Jared Allen (Director of Capital Programmes, Manchester City Council) and Charmaine Hughes (Head of Frameworks/Programme Manager of Capital Programmes, Manchester City Council). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-jennifer-schooling-presents-carbon-reduction-c... |
| Description | Meeting with Assetscape - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Assetscaper |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Cameron Rose, Manager at Victoria Rail, Australia - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Cameron Rose, Manager at Victoria Rail, Australia |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with Costain - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Costain |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Network Rail - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Network Rail |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Meeting with Richard Bruce - Department for Transport |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Richard Bruce - Department for Transport |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Meeting with SME Blue Mesh solutions Jennifer Schooling and Manu Sasidharan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activities - Meeting with SME Blue Mesh solutions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with SME Grid Smarter Cities - Jennifer Schooling and Omar Abo Madyan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activities - Meeting with SME Grid Smarter Cities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with Social Value Portal - Dee Dee Frawley and Timea Nochta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Meeting with TfL regarding Carbon Code - Jennifer Schooling and Dee Dee Frawley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness raising activities - Meeting with TfL regarding Carbon Code |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Member of Institution of Civil Engineers Awards for Papers Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | I have served on the Institution of Civil Engineers Awards for Papers Panel. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Member of the HS2 Design Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | High Speed Two is the new railway that will be the backbone of Britain's transport network. The HS2 (High Speed Two) Design Panel will use the framework of the Design Vision to enable decision making at early stages of project development and it will review and critique outcomes at key stages in the design process. The Panel will not make design decisions, but will it will offer impartial recommendations and advice. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017,2018,2019 |
| Description | Microsoft On the Issues Blog-Mark Girolami |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Mark Girolami has been featured in the Microsoft 'On The Issues' blog to share how data is helping shape the UK's response to COVID19. Odysseus, a collaborative project led by The Alan Turing Institute, is featured by Microsoft On the Issues, the organisation's global public affairs content hub that explores ways technology impacts society. The article, written by Katharine Rooney, brings focus to the rapid redeployment of a Turing study monitoring air quality in London to respond to the coronavirus pandemic as London went into lockdown in March 2020. Codenamed Odysseus, the project was led by a Turing team including Professor Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair at the University of Cambridge, Programme Director for Data-Centric Engineering at the Turing, and academic lead at both CSIC and the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB). Working with the London Data Commission and City Hall, the Odysseus team gathered behavioural information - how busy the capital was and public responses to government interventions - from existing open data sets, including traffic monitoring videos, to support planning and decision-making by London authorities. "The idea was really to try and identify synergies between all of these datasets, and exploit those to get more information than perhaps just looking at one single dataset," said Professor Girolami of Odysseus, that used cloud-based infrastructure built as part of ongoing Microsoft-supported research at Turing, as well as statistical machine learning and AI. The success of the project and actionable insights offered by data-driven analysis and open data is reflected in the interest in adopting the same approach by other city authorities in the UK and further afield. Outputs from Odysseus are already providing significant insights on public behaviour and commercial impact enabling planners to have early signs of behavioural changes. Data collected by the team will also enable retrospective studies of social behaviour and help to shape decision-making supporting positive and equitable recovery. The article also outlines Microsoft's collaborative activity as part of its Open Data campaign launched in April 2020 that aims to close the data divide and address a number of societal issues including the educational impact of COVID-19 restrictions. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://news.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/01/27/open-data-covid-19-uk-alan-turing-institute/ |
| Description | Modus Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) - The Precision Issue Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Article published in Modus Royal Institution for Chartered Surveyors (RICS) featuring Dr Jennifer Schooling OBE in the July 2019 issue titled 'The Precision Issue' which focused on how data is "the currency of the surveyor." Dr Schooling said: "Everyone needs to understand that data about an asset, throughout design, construction and ongoing operation, is as important as the asset itself." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/modusmagazine |
| Description | Morgan Sindall Group - On-site manufacturing approach to construction JMS/CRM/DDF |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Morgan Sindall Group to discuss on-site manufacturing approach to construction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Murphy Group - Gas pipe monitoring PK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Murphy Group to discuss Gas pipe monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | NRFIS I New Civil Engineering building - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Assisted with drafting of specs for and design of CSIC lab s aces |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| Description | Nanzee - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Developing robust, high-performance strain and temperature fiber optic cable |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | National Grid - Tunnel monitoring PK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with National Grid to discuss tunnel monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National Infrastructure Forum panel discussion - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation in National Infrastructure Forum panel discussion bringing together senior industry leaders and decision makers across the public and private sectors |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National Instruments - Development of data acquisition system for acoustic emission sensors for experimental studies HA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting to discuss the development of data acquisition system for acoustic emission sensors for experimental studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing launch event |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 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 (UKCRIC) National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing (NRFIS). Welcoming visitors to the new facility, Professor Simon Guest, Head of Civil Engineering, said: "The opening of NRFIS demonstrates the commitment of UKCRIC and the University of Cambridge to research in Civil Engineering, and our wish to collaborate widely with industry and other academic institutions to develop solutions to the world's most pressing problems." Attendees gathered on the strong floor of the Civil Engineering Building for the formal opening of the new facilities, located on the West Campus site of the University of Cambridge, and speeches by Andrew Wyllie CBE, President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of the Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC), and Professor Richard Prager, Head of the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge. Andrew Wyllie acknowledged the timely contribution the world-leading research and state-of-the-art facilities will make in driving the emerging digital era of civil engineering. He said: "We are living in a new era for civil engineering defined by the Fourth Industrial Revolution that is shaped by technology. The University of Cambridge is at the very forefront of this revolution characterised by the expertise and facilities we are celebrating here today. The research taking place within this state-of-the-art new building will support the UK as a global leader of smart infrastructure, data analytics and asset management." Tours of the new building, designed by Grimshaw Architects and underpinned by sustainability and future-proofing, showcased the 12 world-class, high-tech laboratories designed for a range of civil engineering disciplines including sensor development, structures, geomechanics and construction. These collaborative facilities are open and available to industry and all academic institutions and centres to support delivery of interconnected, integrated, and interdisciplinary research for UK infrastructure. Professor Richard Prager highlighted the strategic initiative behind the new Civil Engineering Building. He said: "This is the first building that starts the University's long-term strategic initiative to draw together the whole of engineering to reintegrate ourselves on this site." Professor Prager highlighted innovations designed to enable future growth and adaptation of the Civil Engineering Building as the process of reintegration grows, including expansion-friendly cladding, reusable concrete floor 'planks' and a bolted steel frame. The building is also instrumented with six sensor packages from the roof to the foundations: "This is the first University of Cambridge building making use of the Energy Cost Metric, a sustainability initiative that could only be achieved through a genuine collaboration between academics across a range of disciplines and the various professional consultants and builders on the project. We had to find a way to work together and this has substantially affected the design of the building leaving us with practical and sustainable ways to inform our future designs as we move the rest of the Department of Engineering to the West Campus site." Professor Lord Robert Mair reflected on the new research facility building on the University's track record of delivering innovative sensor advancements through its Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction (CSIC). Lord Mair brought focus to the background to NRFIS, part of the UKCRIC portfolio of research and innovation facilities, pioneered by Professor Brian Collins of UCL to provide leadership for the development and growth of a coordinated and coherent world-class, UK-based international infrastructure research community. The new Civil Engineering Building is funded through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), as part of a £138M UK Government investment in infrastructure and cities research (part of the UKCRIC network). "The opening of NRFIS at the new Civil Engineering Building is an important step to help us design, build and maintain infrastructure which is better, resilient, adaptable and sustainable. NRFIS is a facility where academia and industry can engage in protecting and growing the country's infrastructure base and supporting the UK to be a leader in the field of smart infrastructure. "UKCRIC's evolving missions are designed to facilitate the delivery of interconnected, integrated and multidisciplinary research programmes and projects. NRFIS will be used to support research in the application of advanced sensor technologies to the monitoring of the UK's existing and future infrastructure. More advanced sensors and appropriate data analysis will ensure better product quality, enhanced construction safety and smarter asset management. "The UK needs to do more to invest in infrastructure and its associated services which are so important to the citizens using it every day. We welcome NRFIS and the new Civil Engineering Building which will help to improve, protect and grow the UK infrastructure base." Professor Giulia Viggiani, NRFIS Academic Lead, brought the event to a close: "NRFIS represents the commitment by the University of Cambridge to the UKCRIC mission of engaging stakeholders to better understand and address complex infrastructure challenges through collaborative research. We thank you all for joining us to mark the opening of this significant contribution to the UK infrastructure research community and look forward to collaborating with you in the future." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nrfis.cam.ac.uk/news/open-business-university-cambridge-new-civil-engineering-building-o... |
| Description | National Science Foundation, USA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Exploring potential for joint NSF/EPSRC research project on Future Cities |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | National Statistician - YJ |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Practical application of the CSIC smart cities analytics in statistics gathering and use |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Net Zero What Works (NZWWC) Energy Intensive Industries Workshop - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Net Zero What Works (NZWWC) Energy Intensive Industries Workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Network Rail |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Substantive discussions on continued monitoring of Staffordshire bridges. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2006,2016 |
| Description | Network Rail - LB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Developing real-time bride capability assessment through integrated sensing. Discussion also included |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Network Rail - MSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring of the dynamic response of a heritage railway viaduct |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Network Rail - MSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Sensing technologies, data interpretation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Network Rail - MSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring of the dynamic response of a heritage railway viaduct |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Network Rail - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Slope stability monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Network rail - ZhL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Predictive maintenance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | On-vehicle sensing of ride quality - Proof of concept - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Gwynedd County Council new form on on-vehicle sensing for mapping the A55 for ride quality |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Online 2022 Smart Infrastructure Seminar Series at University of California, Berkeley - Talk titled 'Developments in Smart Infrastructure and Construction in the UK' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Schooling's talk will consider how the increasing availability of data brings opportunity to monitor and understand our infrastructure and cities as never before. Dr Schooling will explore challenges, including which data should be collected, how data should be managed and analysed, and how to decide where to invest limited resources into sensing systems, novel technologies and data analytics. A number of CSIC projects with industry partners will be presented which demonstrate the potential that data has to transform the way we plan, design, deliver, manage and operate our infrastructure systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://its.berkeley.edu/news/smart-infrastructure-seminar-series |
| Description | Online workshop for UKCRIC academics and researchers to investigate the challenges and research opportunities around digitalisation in the built environment. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Delegates from across all 15 UKCRIC institutions participated in the online event. The workshop provided the opportunity to engage with colleagues across the UKCRIC community and explore areas of collective interest and capability with the digital space. It is hoped that the opportunities identified and discussed will spark ideas for future innovation and collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Optasense - PTK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Rail monitoring using DAS |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Optasense - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Distributed acoustic sensing in Civil Infrastructure |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Ove Arup & Partners - GB and YC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Geotechnics, Instruments and monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ove Arup Foundation Transitioning Cities project Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ove Arup Foundation Transitioning Cities project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | PA Consulting- CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Initial discussions about collaborative activity on rail systems and energy harvesting systems. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Panellists at UK Construction Week The Digital Future of Infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Topic: Dragging the Industry into the 21st century (previously called The Digital Future of Infrastructure) Chaired by David Hancock, Head of Construction, Cabinet Office Panellists: Mark Enzer, Chief Technical Officer @Mott MacDonald & Chair of Digital Framework Task Group, Centre for Digital Built Britain Shaun Pidcock, Programme Director, Smart Motorways, Highways England Dr Sonia Zahiroddiny, BIM Strategy Manager, HS2 Dr Oliver Teall, Head of Intelligent Mobility, Costain Group Plc Dr Jennifer Schooling, Director, Centre for Smart Infrastructure & Construction |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Pecca Kucha Presentation on Concrete Thermal Properties (MGF) at CSIC Industry Partner Strategy Day - Sept 2022 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Showcasing of emerging research findings for predictive tools for concrete thermal behaviour. This led to questions and interest from the audience who stated that the approach had great potential and wished to follow the progress and outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Perkins & Will - Digital Tools for Resilient Urban Planning - Infrastructure Planning RC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Perkins & Will to discuss Digital Tools for Resilient Urban Planning - Infrastructure Planning |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Physical Acoustics Ltd; Mistras Group Ltd - Acoustic Emission sensors selection for experimental studies HA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Physical Acoustics Ltd and Mistras Group Ltd to discuss Acoustic Emission sensors selection for experimental studies |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Pinsent Mason - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Input to Infratech report |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Prof Mohammad Noori (Cal Poly) visit to CSIC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Prof Mohammad Noori (Cal Poly) visit to CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Professor Mark Girolami interviewed for the Create the Future: An Engineering Podcast from the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This podcast shines a light on the topic of digital twins and the emergence of AI as technologies shaping the future. Professor Girolami said: "This concept cuts across just about every sector you can think of - it's having major impact across everything from agriculture, climate and weather to structural engineering. There isn't any area that isn't being touched by digital twins." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://podfollow.com/1473202958/episode/0274de79b6ef3b1e8f74fd61e4a18cfd1e37d89a/view |
| Description | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration Mistras Group Ltd with CSIC - Haris Alexakis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration with CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration Physical Acoustics Ltd with CSIC - Haris Alexakis |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Provide support for current projects and explore possible future collaboration with CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Public Utilities Board Singapore - Knowledge sharing on FO instrumentation possibilities for Singapore Deep Tunnel Sewer System JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Public Utilities Board Singapore regarding knowledge sharing on fibre optic instrumentation possibilities for Singapore Deep Tunnel Sewer System |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Qatari Department for Infrastructure and Planning (Ministry of Municipality and Environment of the State of Qatar) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | 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 State of Qatar) to the University of Cambridge new Civil Engineering Building on 25 November. Welcoming the visitors to the new facility, Dr Jennifer Schooling gave an introduction to the work of CSIC and NRFIS, acknowledging the valuable contribution the world-leading research and state-of-the-art facilities will make in driving the emerging digital era of civil engineering. Nicola Pearson, Head of Change and Knowledge Transfer at the Centre for Digital Built Britain (CDBB), provided a presentation on the work underway by CDBB in developing the National Digital Twin. The visit concluded with a tour of the new NRFIS facilities, which showcased the 12 world-class, high-tech laboratories designed for a range of civil engineering disciplines including sensor development, structures, geomechanics and construction. These collaborative facilities are open and available to industry and all academic institutions and centres to support delivery of interconnected, integrated, and interdisciplinary research for UK infrastructure. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.nrfis.cam.ac.uk/news/nrfis-hosts-delegation-visit-qatari-department-infrastructure-and-p... |
| Description | Qualcomm - AAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interest in MEMS sensors, energy harvesting and wireless systems |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Rail Measurement UK - JT |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Wheel-rail roughness measurement |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Raman sewer sensing - Proof of Concept - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaboration with Severn Trent |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Ramboll meeting - MSA |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Ramboll meeting to discuss bridge strenghtening monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster Future Directions - Digital Data Workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Restoration and Renewal of the Palace of Westminster Future Directions - Digital Data Workshops |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | SCOR conference - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation at SCOR conference; engaging with an audience involved in risk management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SHMII8 conference (Brisbane, Australia) - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Dissemination of research to international research community |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Satellite Applications Catapult |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Remote sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Science Festival 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | CSIC showcases Smart Infrastructure at the 2019 Cambridge Science Festival. CSIC and Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology showcased a number of hands-on and family-friendly activities at their event 'Smart Building, Smart Construction'. These included a range of smart technologies including: an instrumented suspension bridge that demonstrated dynamic strain; a CSIC-developed data acquisition system featuring acoustic emission sensors and accelerometer that displayed a real-time signal on contact with the sensor; and, the mixed reality world of the Microsoft Hololens. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/csic-showcases-smart-infrastructure-at... |
| Description | Science Innovation Tou?r? Podcast-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling featured on the Science Innovation Tour Podcast. Talking through some fascinating case studies: from monitoring the health of a 150 year old bridge to using digital twining to improve air quality. Listen to this episode if you are interested in smart infrastructure and its effect in our way of living. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/interested-to-know-about-smart-infrastructure-look/id150844658... |
| Description | Secure Connected Places External Advisory Group (for DCMS) - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Secure Connected Places External Advisory Group (for DCMS) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Seminar Speaker, Karlsruhe Institute of technology, Germany |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker at Departmental Seminar Series. Researchers from KIT (germany) will be visiting Cambridge as a result to work on joint papers in 2020 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Seminar Texas A&M University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | "The observational method in supported excavations," Invited seminar, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA, 1 November 2019. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Service Oriented, Holonic and Multi-agent Manufacturing Systems for Industry of the Future (SOHOMA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The ninth SOHOMA event features a special session on 'digital transformation for construction and management of buildings and infrastructure', featuring CSIC Director Dr Jennifer Schooling and CSIC Investigator Dr Ajith Parlikad. The main objective of the SOHOMA event is to foster innovation in smart and sustainable manufacturing and logistics systems. The theme this year is "Smart anything everywhere - The vertical and horizontal manufacturing integration." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/sohoma |
| Description | Sharing engineering data for the public good, Open Data Institute, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Invited Speaker on Sharing engineering data for the public good |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Siemens - ZhL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Fault diagnosis with pattern recognition |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Siemens - ZhL |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Collaborative maintenance |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Smart Bridges Fibre optics that give remote and real-time assessment of structural health |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | 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 Staffordshire Bridges project, which is an ongoing collaboration with industry partner Network Rail, the Laing O'Rourke Centre for Construction Engineering and Technology and The Alan Turing Institute. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://tc-catalogue.strongerstories.org/stories/smart-bridges/ |
| Description | Smart City Standards Conference (presentation TN) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher Dr Timea Nochta presented at the Smart City Standards Conference, Connected Places Catapult (in collaboration with IEC), London, UK (17 July) - talk title: "A strategic approach to city digital twins: Introducing the Cambridge CDT work" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Smart Nation Initiative Singapore Delegation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Smart Nation Initiative Singapore Delegation meeting with CSIC. The delegation was led by the Director of their new Government Data Office a new department that is being set up in the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office to conceptualise, implement and enforce data-related policies and guidelines for the entire Public Sector. Some of the CSIC team presented their research, the Smart Nation Initiative Singapore Delegation wanted like to learn more about the different best practices in terms of data collection, fusion, distribution and usage, as well as strategies that can support their Open Data and Digital Economy aspirations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Smart Sustainability Paper |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC hosted a roundtable discussion during the 2018 Global Engineering Conference at the Institution of Civil Engineers in London to explore exploiting data as an engineering tool to mitigate climate change and a paper summarising this discussion has been published today. The roundtable participants included experts from the infrastructure and construction sector, academia, sustainability, finance, insurance, development and policy. Discussions focused on how civil engineers can engage with the challenges of mitigating and responding to climate change, the role of data in mitigating risk and unlocking projects, and the challenges and opportunities of implementing smart infrastructure solutions in a developing world context. The paper, titled Smart Sustainability, also focused on the role and responsibility of engineers and makes the case for exploiting data. It concludes with a call to action for every engineer to make a difference and to "speak up, use data and act now." |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/paperonsmartsustainability |
| Description | Southampton University - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Monitoring on pile-slope interaction during OLE foundation testing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | TRIB Digital Twins workshop - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Awareness Raising activity - TRIB Digital Twins workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Teignmouth Marine Services - Monitoring of Baildon Bridge, Bradford PRAF/CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Teignmouth Marine Services to discuss monitoring of Baildon Bridge, Bradford |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Telespazio VEGA - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Remote sensing |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Tensar - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Involved in initial discussions regarding instrumentation of geotextiles I geogrids |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Tensar - XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | DFOS/FBG integrated geogrid/geotextile sensing system for embankment/slope |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Thales - AAS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Possible deployment opportunities for energy harvesting powered wireless modules |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Thames Tideway and HS2 monitoring - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Participation and presentation at workshop for Thames Tideway and HS2 monitoring |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Thames Tideways - Smart tunnels PK |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Thames Tideways to discuss smart tunnels |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Conversation - Big Data and AI Didem Gurdur Broo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC Research Associate, Didem Gurdur Broo, has written an article published by The Conversation highlighting how, in a changing world, it is the larger tech companies making the most of opportunities that Big Data and AI can provide. Outlining the challenges to other sectors, including a lack of high-quality data, an established strategy and expertise, she describes data as "the foundation of artificial intelligence." Didem writes: "Having high-quality and trustworthy data is key to helping companies to better understand their markets and customers and enable automated decision making. At an infrastructure level, data can guide planners and developers and help optimise the use and maintenance of buildings, roads and railways. This could also help reduce carbon emissions by making our infrastructure last longer and work more efficiently, helping to reduce wasted energy and unnecessary traffic." Research suggests that if traditional companies and other organisations want to benefit from AI and to compete, profit and build a sustainable world, they must start embracing data. AI solutions can only be as good as the quality of data they are built on. The article concludes by suggesting that it is only with the hiring of the right expertise and putting in place the required policies to gather the correct data - making it accessible, assessing the quality and then putting it to use to develop AI solutions - that these organisations will be in a position to truly take advantage of the next industrial revolution. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/tech-firms-are-winning-the-ai-race-because-they-understand-data-other-se... |
| Description | The DC2 Emerging Connection Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The DC2 Emerging Connection Workshop, held over two sessions online in October, brought together policy makers, academics and industry professionals to inform development of a Competence Framework for city managers in the digital age. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The Decarbonising Transport and Infrastructure Conference-Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling presented at the The Decarbonising Transport and Infrastructure Conference on 'The Role of Data in Decarbonising the Delivery and Management of Infrastructure Assets'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The Life Scientific: Inventors book |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A new book of interviews with "the ingenious individuals who come into The Life Scientific studio" features Professor Lord Robert Mair, Head of CSIC. The book, titled 'The Life Scientific: Inventors', written by Anna Buckley - the producer of the radio programme - publishes on 14 November and offers engaging and fascinating insight into the scientists and engineers who have featured on the popular BBC Radio 4 programme over the past eight years. Professor Mair was interviewed by presenter Jim Al-Khalili about tunnelling, the compensation grouting which prevented Big Ben from tilting and coming away from the Houses of Parliament during the Jubilee line extension works, and smart infrastructure in 2013. Based on the radio interviews, the book, which also features Professor Dame Ann Dowling, former President of the Royal Academy of Engineering and Head of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering 2009-14, charts the life journeys of scientists and engineers working in Britain today from childhood interests to more recent innovation. Explaining what they did when and why, the interviews make science accessible, interesting and exciting, revealing moments of disappointment, creativity, frustration and joy. This publication follows 'The Life Scientific: Explorers' which won the Sunday Times Science Book of the Year 2018. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/head-csic-features-life-scientific-inventors-book... |
| Description | The Ove Arup Foundation - LW, TN |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Presentation of Digital Cities for Change (DC2) project to The Ove Arup Foundation which received good feedback from the TOAF board |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Public Sector Show's National Infrastructure Forum - JMS invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennfier Schooling was invited to present at the The Public Sector Show's National Infrastructure Forum on 'Meeting the megatrends and the future of infrastructure'. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning appointed by the House of Lords included Professor Lord Robert Mair, Founding Head of CSIC, |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | The Select Committee on Risk Assessment and Risk Planning was appointed by the House of Lords in October 2020 to 'consider risk assessment and risk planning in the context of disruptive national hazards'. The Committee issued a call for evidence, which received 99 pieces of written evidence and, between 25 November 2020 and 23 June 2021, heard oral evidence from 85 witnesses during 29 sessions. The findings were published on 3 December 2021 in the report 'Preparing for Extreme Risks: Building a Resilient Society' which made recommendations across a number of chapters bringing focus to: the UK risk landscape, resilience, a whole society approach, risk assessment, and risk planning. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-response-to-preparing-for-extreme-risks-buildi... |
| Description | The Smart Infrastructure Blog |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Smart Infrastructure Blog, launched in September, now includes 5 blogs from industry and academic colleagues, and has attracted more than 780 unique views. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/smart-infrastructure-blog |
| Description | Thermal integrity testing PhD Kick Off meeting (Arup, London) - YR |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | PhD kick off meeting held at Arup |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Timea Nochta - report in States Regenerate: Why digital twins are critical for climate change mitigation |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Dr Timea Nochta, CSIC Senior Research Associate, offered insights on digital twins and decarbonisation challenges in a report entitled States Regenerate: Greening Government for our Planet, Wealth, and Health by StateUp, an international intelligence and advisory firm for public-purpose technology that works with governments, international organisations, investors and research bodies. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/files/dr_timea_nochta_-_stateup_nebula_-_by_permission... |
| Description | Trade Article BIM+ "Government backs plan to change infrastructure priorities" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC and CDBB Flourishing Systems paper was featured in a BIM+ article titled "Government backs plan to change infrastructure priorities". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bimplus.co.uk/news/government-backs-plan-change-infrastructure-priori/ |
| Description | Trade Article BIM+ "Reframing infrastructure to put people first" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CSIC/CDBB Flourishing Systems paper featured in BIM+ article title "Reframing infrastructure to put people first". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bimplus.co.uk/opinion/reframing-infrastructure-put-people-first-mark-enz/ |
| Description | Trade Article CES - GIS-based infrastructure management-Georgios Hadjidemetriou & Ajith Parlikad |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | CES article on "GIS-based infrastructure management" features Georgios Hadjidemetriou & Ajith Parlikad. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://ces.pagelizard.co.uk/webviewer/#cesapril2020/gis_based_infrastructure_management |
| Description | Trade Article Infrastructure Intelligence "Let Covid crisis be catalyst to change construction for good"-Didem Gürdür Broo & Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Didem Gürdür Broo & Jennifer Schooling feature in Infrastructure Intelligence with an article titled "Let Covid crisis be catalyst to change construction for good". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | http://www.infrastructure-intelligence.com/article/apr-2020/let-covid-crisis-be-catalyst-change-cons... |
| Description | Trade Article The Conversation "Tech firms are winning the AI race because they understand data - other sectors need to catch up"-Didem Gürdür Broo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Didem Gurdur Broo has an article published in The Conversation on "Tech firms are winning the AI race because they understand data - other sectors need to catch up". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Transforming Construction N+ Conference (Chair JMS) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Transforming Construction Network Plus (N+) project. The event was held at the Royal Society on Carlton House Terrac with a mix of academic and industry speakers and plus some international representatives. There was a mixed audience of around 100-150 attendees for this event. We will be showcasing the projects funded under the first round of N+ funding and we will be launching the second N+ call on the day. Jennifer Schooling chaired a session featuring John Pelton, David Adams from Melius Homes and Ann Kemp. The 3 of them presented some projects and work that inspired the audience in doing things differently, bringing several disciplines together and trying to actively participate in the transformation of the construction industry. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Transport for London - Tunnel temperature monitoring and discussion on instrumentation of tunnel drainage sumps PRAF/RC |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Transport for London to discuss tunnel temperature monitoring and discussion on instrumentation of tunnel drainage sumps |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Transport for West Midlands (Centro Trams, National Express) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | With James Talbot - Maintenance visit to Tram 8th September 2016 (This one is really James - I've mentioned it here so it doesn't get forgotten.) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Trust & Technology Initiative Article "Deciding our (urban) futures: the role of data and digital modelling"-Timea Nochta |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Timea Nochta has written a short opinion piece on data, modelling and future-scoping and this can be found online on the Trust & Technology Initiative's website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.trusttech.cam.ac.uk/research-agendas-and-perspectives/covid-19-trust-technology-society-... |
| Description | Trust & Technology Initiative Article "Future Studies on the impact of COVID-19 on the built environment"-Didem Gürdür Broo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Didem Gürdür Broo writes an article for Trust & Technology Initiative on "Future Studies on the impact of COVID-19 on the built environment". In an effort to raise awareness of different future-alternatives, as well as of the possibility that these future alternatives can be shaped by different strategies that we can start to work on today, a group from CDBB, including data scientist Dr Didem Gürdür Broo from CSIC, aim to use scenarios to make sense of complex situations related to the future of the built environment. The Trust & Technology Initiative brings together and drives forward interdisciplinary research from Cambridge and beyond to explore the dynamics of trust and distrust in relation to internet technologies, society and power. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.trusttech.cam.ac.uk/research-agendas-and-perspectives/covid-19-trust-technology-society-... |
| Description | Trust & Technology Initiative Article "Rebooting our travel behaviour and transport infrastructure management practices"-Manu Sasidharan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Manu Sasidharan, Research Associate in Infrastructure Asset Management at CSIC has written an article in Trust & Technology Initiative on rebooting our travel behaviour and transport infrastructure following the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite initiatives to improve the efficiency of transportation asset management practices, the budgetary constraints result in significant (unsustainable) increases in transport costs. Given the limited understanding of the epidemiology of Covid-19 and the lack of a vaccine, the transport sector can contribute greatly to tailoring public health interventions of human-mobility reduction and social-distancing. Coming out the other side in the new normal, Manu suggests that we should recognise that we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver transformative change in decarbonising transport if we look at Covid-19 as a 'disruptive event' that has brought about a range of changes in travel behaviour. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/rebooting-our-travel-behaviour-and-transport-infr... |
| Description | Trust & Technology Initiative Talk-Didem Gurdur Broo |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Didem Gurdur Broo gave a Trust & Technology Initiative Talk on "When the sky is not the limit: Digitising conservative industries". |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Tunnel Inspectoin Robot - Proof of Concept - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Toshiba, National Grid CSIC PhD student Simon Stent, with support of CSIC staff, developed a robot to run in National Grid Power Tunnel to inspect tunnel; This showed proof of concept in being able to inspect 1km of tunnel autonomously |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
| Description | UK Atomic Energy Commission - LB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Condition Monitoring at RACE (Remote Applications in Challenging Environments), UK Atomic Energy Commission Presentation title: 'Integrated Structural Sensing in Bridge Infrastructure' |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | UK Regulators Network (UKRN) Annual Conference - JMS invited speaker |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited to present at the UK Regulators Network (UKRN) Annual Conference on 'How can we secure the benefits of data and innovation for resilient sectors in the long-term?' The UK Regulators Network held its third annual conference on 23 April 2018, which brought together 120 representatives from the UKRN's 12 member regulators, government departments, think tanks and other stakeholders. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | UKCRIC All Hands meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling presented at the UKCRIC All Hands November 2019: Making a Success of Collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | UROP project (2017): "Measurements, Performance and Analysis of Long Range (LoRa) Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) for Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) and Infrastructure Sensing Applications" - David Rodenas Herraiz |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | UROP project (2017): "Measurements, Performance and Analysis of Long Range (LoRa) Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) for Large-scale Internet of Things (IoT) and Infrastructure Sensing Applications" |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ultra-High Performance Concrete Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Workshop on UHPFRC following project proposals suggested at the 2018 CSIC Partner Strategy Day. The workshop session led by Prof Janet Lees to discuss the projects in more depth and to set up a steering group to plan how to move this forward. The workshop addressed the following questions: - What applications of UHPFRC do you believe are the most promising and what particular properties do you hope UHFPRC will give you? - What do you think needs to be done to realise these applications? Where do you see the gaps in knowledge? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Visit |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Third sector organisations |
| Results and Impact | CSIC researcher gave a presentation in the new CSIC lab to the University of Cambridge Vice-Chancellor whilst visiting the National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | University of Sydney - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Project Management |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | University of Sydney, John Grill Centre for Project Leadership - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Visit by Mr John Grill to discuss possible research collaboration |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | University of Sydney, John Grill Centre for Project Leadership - CRM |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Lunch and lecture to key stakeholders on the future delivery of infrastructure; attendance at the launch of the Centre's Australian Infrastructure Dialogue policy document; preparations for infrastructure leadership events in 2018 and 2019, in England and Australia respectively. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Urban Revolution - Cam Alumni Magazine Jennifer Schooling and Ruchi Choudury |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 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. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| URL | https://magazine.alumni.cam.ac.uk/urban-revolution/ |
| Description | UtterBerry - NdB |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussions regarding potential combination of FO and WSN for structural monitoring projects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Valerann - CSIC collaboration JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with Valerann to discuss possible collaboration with CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Vibration Energy Harvester - Proof of Concept - JMS |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | IP Group investnig in VEH to create 8Power CSIC funding for VEGH directly contributed to creation of IP, patents |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | Vietnam delegation led by the Ministry of Construction (presentation DDF) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentation about CSIC given to Vietnam delegation led by the Ministry of Construction as part of visit to CDBB. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Visit from Hong Kong government delegation - team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Presentations and lab demonstrations to Hong Kong government officials, showcasing the technologies being developed at CSIC |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Visit to CSIC Prof Young National University of Singapore |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jennifer Schooling met with Prof Young, Professor Lord Robert Mair and Prof Young National from University of Singapore to discuss Research collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visitors from Hong Kong Institute of Engineers (HKIE) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Discussion of recent development of advanced I&M research and application in Hong Kong and CSIC's research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Visitors from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NUST) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | - Have an overview of the educational & research activities at CSIC - Potential collaboration in research and education (including researcher/student exchange) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | WSP - Bridge asset management, discuss the potential secondment to improve the developed toolkit QL/XX |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Meeting with WSP to discuss bridge asset management, discuss the potential secondment to improve the developed toolkit |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Water, water everywhere - assessing the impact of flood on railway infrastructure |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | The presentation was part of the final workshop of the EU Horizon Funded SAFEWAY project, a GIS-based infrastructure management system for optimised response to extreme events on terrestrial transport networks that leads to significantly improved resilience of transport infrastructures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://tv.uvigo.es/video/6214932ca33c06415972ff48 |
| Description | Why infrastructure matters and how data helps us to deliver better services from infrastructure - Jennifer Schooling - Cambridge Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Cambridge Festival Event - diverse audience |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | Young Rail Professional Talk-Manu Sasidharan |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Manu Sasidharan gave a YRP WM talk on "A railway track - for the users, by the users, of the users". Historically, railway track maintenance strategies have been based on engineering judgement taking into account available budgets and operational safety. This has led to the insufficient concern of the socio-economic and environmental costs and benefits of track maintenance. Given the pressure to increase track utilisation, the ageing infrastructure of railway networks, constrained maintenance budgets, the vertical separation of the ownership and operation of railway track infrastructure and rolling stock in many countries, and concerns about the environmental impacts of transport, there is a need to implement sustainable maintenance strategies. To this end, this talk presents an approach to appraise the investment in railway track maintenance. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | i3P Carbon Leadership Group |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Jennifer Schooling was invited to attend the i3P Leaders Carbon dinner. This is an important activity in i3P diary, symbolising the significant progress we have made in the establishment and acceleration of the infrastructure industry activity towards a net carbon zero sector. Over the last 12 months Heathrow, Highways England, and Hs2 have supported i3P Priority Working Groups that have connected a number of industry activities and focused resource on carbon mitigation through innovation. The dissemination of these activities will be made available during the day conference on the 6th November through the following agenda items: Client leadership Industry collaboration Research impact working across a global network Innovation showcasing Data management and benchmarking Recommendations for a net carbon sector The evening dinner will be a working meal, where we will feedback recommendations from i3P members developed during the day at the conference. Across dinner, we will discuss these recommendations and prioritise the areas where i3P can have the greatest impact through innovation and call for our partner network to work with us in a unified programme to advance better carbon outcomes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | i3P Delivery Leadership Group - Jennifer Schooling |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | i3P Delivery Leadership Group |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |