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SUMMARY:What is the Cambridge Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construc
 tion - Professor Kenichi Soga\, Professor of Civil Engineering\, CUED
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CONTACT:Anama Lowday
DESCRIPTION:One of the greatest challenges facing civil engineers in the 2
 1st century is the stewardship of civil engineering infrastructure. Nowher
 e is this more apparent than in underground structures in the major cities
  around the world. Advances in the development of fibre optics\, computer 
 vision\, miniature micro-electro-mechanical sensors (MEMS) and wireless se
 nsor network (WSN) offer intriguing possibilities that can radically alter
  the paradigms underlying existing methods of condition assessment and mon
 itoring of such infrastructure. To promote this effort\, the new Cambridge
  Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction was established last Apr
 il with support from EPSRC\, TSB and Industry. The talk will give an overv
 iew of the centre activities as well as several field demonstration studie
 s using the new technologies.\n
LOCATION:Engineering Department - Lecture Room 6
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