Acuity and Agility in Infrastructure Systems Decision-making

Tragic incidents such as the collapse of the Mexico City Metro overpass have demonstrated the impact of inadequate infrastructure maintenance, while intense weather events coupled with higher societal expectations bring new challenges to infrastructure management.  Taking a richer, more proactive approach to the use of data – including data related to climate change – will be the topic of this event organised by Surrey’s experts in civil engineering, electrical and electronic engineering and computer science in collaboration with Beckford Consulting. The activities planned for this event will provide insights on the value of data in achieving real-time, predictive and adaptive maintenance and management practices while balancing the trade-off between demanding criteria for de-risked (in terms of human safety) and de-carbonised activities. This will also assist in identifying areas where new technologies can be further exploited for monitoring, maintenance and management of assets. Output from the event will include a technical publication and a green paper.

ORGANISERS

Professor John Beckford, Partner at Beckford Consulting, Visiting Professor at UCL and Loughborough.

Professor Marios Chryssanthopoulos, Professor of Structural Systems and Head of the Centre for Infrastructure Systems Engineering (CISE).

Dr Raffaella Guida, Reader, Head of Remote Sensing Applications Research Group and member of Surrey Space Centre.

Dr Donya Hajializadeh, Senior Lecturer, Director of Employability and member of CISE.

Dr Boulent Imam, Senior Lecturer, Postgraduate Programme Leader and member of CISE.

Dr Sotiris Moschoyiannis, Reader, Admission Tutor and member of Surrey Centre for Cyber Security and Nature Inspired Computing and Engineering Research Group

Dr Emma Hellawell, Research Fellow, University of Surrey

PRESENTATIONS

Presentations from the workshop can be viewed here.