{"id":315,"date":"2013-10-04T05:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-04T04:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/?p=315"},"modified":"2013-11-18T10:27:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T10:27:34","slug":"strewth-these-guys-are-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2013\/10\/04\/strewth-these-guys-are-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Strewth, these guys are SMART!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural <a href=\"http:\/\/isngi.org\/index.html\">International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure<\/a> was held between 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 4<sup>th<\/sup> October 2013, at the <a href=\"http:\/\/smart.uow.edu.au\/index.html\">SMART Infrastructure Research Facility<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uow.edu.au\/index.html?ssSourceSiteId=smart\">University of Wollongong<\/a>, Australia, and one lucky Geospatial Engineering researcher from Newcastle was able to attend. David Alderson gave a 20 minute presentation entitled <strong><em>\u201c<a title=\"A National-Scale Infrastructure Database and Modelling Environment for the UK\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/ISNGI_Paper_Barr-etal_Final_15-8-13.pdf\">A National-Scale Infrastructure Database and Modelling Environment for the UK<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/strong> following a successful submission of a conference paper to the conference committee, under the same title. The work contained within the paper and the presentation represented an amalgamation of work conducted by David and other researchers from the Geospatial Engineering group at Newcastle and other research institutes and universities involved in the <a href=\"\/GeospatialEngineeringResearchMeetings\/Blog%20Posts\/itrc.org.uk\">Infrastructure Transitions Research Consortium<\/a> (UK ITRC) programme. The focus of the paper and presentation was to give readers and delegates alike a glimpse of some of the work undertaken in the process of constructing a database of infrastructure-related data relevant to the UK. This included not only an overview of some of the datasets that may be found within the database, but also a preview of some of the visualisation tools that are being developed on top of the data. An overview of these visualisation tools can be found within other posts in this blog site <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2013\/08\/26\/257\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the slides can also be found <a title=\"SMART Presentation David Alderson 03\/10\/2013 1st half\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/SMART_ISNGI_Presentation_03102013_DavidAlderson_ForBlog_1sthalf.pptx\">here<\/a> and <a title=\"SMART Presentation David Alderson 2nd half 3\/10\/2013\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/SMART_ISNGI_Presentation_03102013_DavidAlderson_ForBlog_2ndhalf.pptx\">here<\/a>. Unfortunately the presentation has had to be split into two parts, so please download from both links to get the full presentation.<\/p>\n<p>Other representatives from the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences at Newcastle University, UK could also be found delivering presentations at the event including:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ceg\/staff\/role\/phd.htm\">Miss Sarah Dunn<\/a>, PhD Student \u2013 Modelling infrastructure systems for resilience and sustainability (<a title=\"Sarah Dunn - ISNGI Presentation - 1sthalf\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/Sarah-Dunn-ISNGI-Presentation-1sthalf.pptx\">part one<\/a>, <a title=\"Sarah Dunn - ISNGI Presentation - 2ndhalf\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/Sarah-Dunn-ISNGI-Presentation-2ndhalf.pptx\">part two<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ceg\/staff\/role\/phd.htm\">Mr Shaun Brown<\/a>, PhD Student \u2013 <a title=\"Shaun Brown ISNGI 2013\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/Brown-ISNGI-2013.pdf\">Resilience of resource movements to disruptive events<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/ceg\/research\/environmentalengineering\/safewater\/stream\/\">Mr Matthew Holmes<\/a>, STREAM PhD Student \u2013 <a title=\"How do we ensure the assessment of infrastructure resilience is proportionate to the risk?\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/files\/2013\/10\/MHolmes_How-do-we-ensure-the-assessment-of-infrastructure-resilience-is-proportionate-to-the-risk_2.pdf\">How do we ensure the assessment of infrastructure resilience is proportionate to the risk?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Further to this fantastic opportunity, a further round of meetings looking to develop collaborations between researchers at SMART, including former Newcastle-based PhD student and post-doctoral researcher Dr Tomas Holderness, and the Geospatial Engineering group at Newcastle, is being held at the SMART infrastructure facility between October 8<sup>th<\/sup> and 11<sup>th<\/sup> 2013. These meetings will look to focus on potential collaborative opportunities regarding network interdependencies between infrastructure networks, and also web-based data dashboards for visualisation and dissemination purposes.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this space for more information\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inaugural International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure was held between 1st and 4th October 2013, at the SMART Infrastructure Research Facility at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and one lucky Geospatial Engineering researcher from Newcastle was able to attend. David Alderson gave a 20 minute presentation entitled \u201cA National-Scale Infrastructure Database and Modelling Environment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/2013\/10\/04\/strewth-these-guys-are-smart\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Strewth, these guys are SMART!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-events","category-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/geospatialengineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}