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Creating and managing integrated infrastructure

30 April 2012, 10 am

Systems Centre & Cabot Institute seminar

Cobot Inst logoVenue - Systems centre, MVB, University of Bristol

Facilitators - John Beckford, Colin Taylor, Ges Rosenberg

Organisers - Oksana Kasyutich, Sophie Causon-Wood

This event is by invitations only.

SC logoPurposes of the event:

  • to stimulate a debate on key issues on the topic, with a systemic perspective
  • to engage with other bodies with a view to engaging in future joint funding bids
  • to disseminate ongoing research and showcase case studies
  • to determine how to (mutually) respond to future calls from EPSRC

The idea of the UK National Infrastructure as a 'network of networks' has moved rapidly from the initial exposure in the CST report of June 2009 to embedding of the systems approach to infrastructure in the NIP2011.

This event at the Systems Centre is designed to build on that early achievement and to stimulate debate from a position where ideas of interdependence, systemic interaction and emergence are core to the debate. Brief papers will be presented in the early part of the day as a stimulus to themed workshops after lunch.

Schedule

Plenary session

10.00

 Welcome & greetings Patrick Godfrey
10.10 Surfing the Waves: Infrastructure Interdependency, Economic Growth and Investment - to view seminar video please click here John Beckford
10.30 Sustainability and Interconnected Infrastructure – Visions of a Future Railway -  to view seminar video please click here John Dora

 
11.00 Coffee break
11.20 Integration governance – a challenge to the status quo  -  to view seminar video please click here Brian Collins
11.40 Infrastructure performance measurement– a process of learning - to view seminar video please click here Colin Taylor
12.00 Developing systems for structure monitoring – EngD in Systems research with Imetrum - Case Study 1 Paul Waterfall, Imetrum
12.15 Smart cities - EngD in Systems with Arup -Case Study 2 - to view seminar video please click here Ellie Cosgrave, Arup
12.30 Buffet Lunch

Workshop

13.30  Four parallel themes
• Infrastructure Investment: Dealing with Complexity and Barriers to Investment
• Infrastructure: Resilience, Measurement, Telemetry
• The Infrastructure Agenda, Governance and Stakeholders
• Bridging Knowledge Gaps
15.30 Plenary session, conclusions
16.30 Door close