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Insight: UKCRIC workshops explore the feasibility of Labour’s proposed National Data Library

UKCRIC ran two workshops that addressed the challenges of and opportunities for data sharing (1) between industry and academia and (2) in urban observatory settings

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Project Spotlight: Supporting carbon neutral construction

Lower Thames Crossing continues to work with UKCRIC Limited as it refines the carbon calculator tool.

Connected publications Resilient infrastructure and urban systems

Connected - Interdependencies Analysis in Complex Systems

National infrastructure as a complex system enabled by interdependencies

Project Spotlight Data-driven solutions

Project Spotlight: Boosting UK infrastructure resilience against climate change

There is an urgent and increasing need to protect the UK’s natural and built environments.

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Project Spotlight: Workshops for Network Rail asset managers

Network Rail asset managers are facing the challenges of maintaining an ageing network, carrying traffic of varying intensity and speed, and increasingly restricted funding

Net zero Project Spotlight

Project Spotlight: Investigating the potential for tunnels to provide a low carbon heating solution

The University of Leeds and HS2 Ltd collaborated to investigate the potential for tunnels to supply heating and cooling in addition to their primary function.

Project Spotlight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems

Project Spotlight: The challenges posed by software vulnerabilities in critical national infrastructure

Characterising software failure and the consequences of software failure for critical national infrastructure resilience

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Insight: 2024 Deloitte Annual Crisis and Resilience Conference

UKCRIC was delighted to be invited to participate in Deloitte’s 2024 Crisis and Resilience conference.

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Insight: Preparing for an Unknown Future - The Net Zero Skills Challenge

PoliticsHome sat down with experts from UKCRIC to learn more about the Net Zero skills challenge

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Insight: Re-thinking our coastal towns and cities

In a major contribution to the nation’s Net Zero 2050 targets, coastal areas generate more renewable energy than the national average.

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Insight: Research must be part of the mix if NISTA and the 10-year infrastructure strategy are to be successful

In July 2024 the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) convened civil engineers, regulators and academics to debate the challenges associated with delivering smart and resilient national infrastructure

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Insight: Place-based solutions for low carbon heating infrastructure in the UK

Decarbonising heating is essential to meeting the UK’s climate goals, but it presents unique challenges.

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Insight: Shaping the nation’s transport future through a whole-systems approach

Transport is the lifeblood that sustains economies and connects communities to jobs and leisure.

Data-driven solutions Project Spotlight Underground infrastructure

Project Spotlight: Assessing the Underworld (ATU)

Assessing the Underworld (ATU) was an ambitious 10-year research programme

Report Underground infrastructure Connected publications

Report: US-UK Workshop on Transformation in Urban Underground Infrastructure

In September 2023 a pivotal transatlantic two-day workshop explored the state of the art in urban underground infrastruc

Connected publications Data-driven solutions

Connected - Advanced optical technologies for a sustainable built environment

How advances in photonics could have a transformative impact on the sustainable built environment

Project Spotlight Theory of change

The International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF)

The International Centre for Infrastructure Futures (ICIF) was a three-year project involving a consortium of researchers from six UK universities – UCL, Southampton, Bristol, Sussex, Cranfield and Brighton.

Underground infrastructure Insight

Insight: Underground Resources for a Sustainable Global Future

Our world has changed in many ways, over the past decade in particular. The drivers for change includes our evolving comprehension of the finiteness of the carrying capacity of the earth.

Project Spotlight Place-based studies and urban observatories

Investigating the repurposing of London Clay for landscaping projects

UKCRIC institutes the University of Birmingham and Heriot-Watt University have collaborated with HS2, in a project to demonstrate that excavated London Clay can be used as a growing medium for landscaping and remediation.

Insight Underground infrastructure

Insight: Underground infrastructure in the time of a climate crisis. What can we do to help?

The most pressing challenge facing humanity is the climate crisis. How can we ensure that everyone has the ability to live comfortable and meaningful lives, while preventing further damage to the planet and atmosphere, and also starting to reverse negative impacts?

Insight Net zero Connected publications