Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Sustainable smart cities - building links with Malaysia In February the Department for International Trade (as was) invited UKCRIC to join its ‘Sustainable Smart City’ delegation to Malaysia
Project Spotlight UKCRIC theory of change Project Spotlight: Liveable Cities Liveable Cities was a 5-year research programme, funded by EPSRC, to identify and test radical engineering solutions
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Futurebuild 2023 UKCRIC's Executive Manager, Dr Joanne Leach reflects on Futurebuild 2023 and the work of Professor Bani Anvari of UCL, following an invitation to host a seminar on ‘making infrastructure improve human wellbeing’.
Insight Net zero Insight: Personal reflection on COP27 – Where do we go from here? After 27 years of COP, it appears global society is not on track to achieve the 1.5° C target agreed at COP21
Project Spotlight Data-driven solutions Is Demand Responsive Transport integrated with parcel delivery a viable future? A pilot study led by researchers at Heriot Watt University and funded by UKCRIC has shown that carbon reduction and financial cost savings can be achieved by combining mobility, such as a demand response bus service, with parcel delivery.
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Rethinking infrastructure for our health and wellbeing At PEARL (Personal Environment Activity Research Laboratory) we ask fundamental research questions to help ensure that infrastructure is fit for purpose for future generations who are going to be using it.
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Reflections from ISNGI 2022 After three years in the planning, the twice postponed, and long overdue, seventh symposium in the International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure series, ISNGI 2022 took place on the 7th September in the Netherlands at the Rotterdam World Trade Centre.
Project Spotlight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems UKCRIC theory of change Project Spotlight: Establishing a Competencies Framework for Infrastructure Policy Professionals Researchers in UCL's Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy have recently published a report from their UKCRIC funded project - Establishing a Competencies Framework for Infrastructure Policy Professionals.
Project Spotlight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Project Spotlight: PLEXUS PLUS - first pseudo-static experimental test on integral abutments at the UKCRIC Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction Laboratory (SoFSI) of the University of Bristol The UKCRIC project PLEXUS PLUS has been the first experimental campaign in the UKCRIC Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction Laboratory (SoFSI) lab.
Project Spotlight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Data-driven solutions Project spotlight: Developing a universal, physics-based model to predict the susceptibility of fine sediment to erosion Researchers at Cranfield University are using UKCRIC research infrastructure to support the development of new mechanistic models of fine sediment erodibility for application to engineering and water quality problems.
Project Spotlight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Data-driven solutions Project spotlight: Building digital twins of social systems University of Leeds has put DAFNI hardware funds to innovative use in digital twin computer simulations
Project Spotlight Project spotlight: A digital twin for roads On 24 February 2022, the International Road Federation, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Manchester presented a webinar with the theme “A digital twin for roads: A combined physics and data-driven approach to predict roads deterioration”.
Project Spotlight Data-driven solutions Place-based studies and urban observatories Project spotlight: Towards a national digital twin for urban transport A collaboration between the UKCRIC Urban Observatories of Newcastle, Birmingham and Manchester, the Alan Turing Institute and the Department for Transport (DfT) is demonstrating the potential of a science-led digital twin approach to decarbonising transport, and standardising this approach on a national scale.
Insight Net zero Insight: Addressing the Climate Emergent(cy) A systemic role for National Infrastructure
Insight Net zero Insight: COP26 - Inspirational Heartbreak Personal reflection on an inspirational, holistic and uplifting event with an underwhelming outcome
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Place-based studies and urban observatories Insight: Supporting Delivery of Government Priorities and the National Infrastructure Strategy UKCRIC's systemic approach is essential to de-risking the UK’s planned £600Bn 10-year investment in infrastructure
Project Spotlight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Project spotlight: Exploring the trilemma of integral bridges The PLEXUS research project explored the benefits of integral bridges and how they might provide other services.
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Systemically Resilient National Infrastructure Dr Dolan explains how National Infrastructure cannot effectively fulfil its purpose unless it is systemically resilient
Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Transforming construction – a move to whole-life value Liam Winder makes the case for taking a whole-life approach to infrastructure
Insight Data-driven solutions Insight: Infrastructure data insights for a sustainable and resilient future If our industry is going to build a sustainable future, we must continue to bring leading-edge solutions into practice
Insight Insight: Data-driven decision-making for smart sustainability 'Collaborative action will be crucial to securing the changes required to reach net zero by 2050'
Report Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Report: Rethinking infrastructure and cities for a Covid-19 world: A UKCRIC prospectus UKCRIC sets out its approach to managing the impacts of the pandemic as it relates to infrastructure and cities research
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Successful remote team working mirrors challenges of transdisciplinary working Remote working is hard, and most of us are only now realising just how hard
Report Net zero Report: UKCRIC contributes to new report that shows the route to a zero carbon future A zero carbon future is possible: this new report shows us the way
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Developing a prospectus for infrastructure and cities research for a COVID-19 world Outcomes of our webinar held on 21 May
Insight Insight: Systemically Resilient Prosperity: Adapting to and learning from COVID-19 (and other strategic challenges) COVID-19 provides us with an opportunity to learn about resilience
Report Report: UKCRIC-relevant articles and opportunities UKCRIC-relevant links from across the infrastructure landscape
Strategy Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Strategy: Infrastructure and cities for a COVID-19 world How will the world change after COVID-19 and how can we make the new normal work for our society?
Strategy Strategy: Mobilising the UKCRIC community around propositions for research and practice We are now developing “Propositions” as integrating structures alongside our Missions
Report UKCRIC theory of change Report: The Little Book of THEORY OF CHANGE for Infrastructure and Cities UKCRIC's guidance on implementing significant infrastructure changes
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Successful cities rely on resilient infrastructure Dr Tom Dolan discusses the importance of resilience in infrastructure
Strategy Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Strategy: ICE introduces the UKCRIC Research Collaboration Institution of Civil Engineers talks to William Powrie, UKCRIC Convenor about UKCRIC and its mission
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Why research integration matters Transdisciplinary approaches have real potential to advance infrastructure research
Report Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Report: House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee publish report on Our Planet, Our Health Report published on 3rd September 2019
Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Role of economic infrastructure in limiting global warming There is a critical need to take action and change the way we invest in infrastructure mitigation and resilience.
Insight Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Insight: Doing water differently: how NSW is setting a standard for the world to follow Perhaps the UK has something to learn from NSW in their approach to water resources management
Insight Place-based studies and urban observatories Insight: Turning a city into a lab The role of observation in tackling urban challenges
Policy Resilient infrastructure and urban systems Policy: UKCRIC response to the ICE policy statement ‘What should be in the National Infrastructure Strategy?’ UKCRIC Deputy Convenor Brian Collins responds to the latest ICE policy statement
Insight Data-driven solutions Insight: Smart sustainability - changing the way we use data and information to engineer tomorrow’s world Leveraging the full value from data can help increase the productivity of infrastructure.
