Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation Industry Showcase event “Infrastructure interdependencies in London – how to overcome complexity to drive productivity and enable sustainable urban growth?”
Imperial College London, Skempton Building
Friday 7 September 2018, 09.00-15.00
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How do we cope with infrastructure interdependencies to simplify as much as possible a complex process and often clouded accountabilities to drive reliability, efficiency, productivity and sustainability in the design delivery and operation? The focus for the conversations about our recent and ongoing research will be informed by challenges of infrastructure in London, where researchers across the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering are working with major projects such as Crossrail and Tideway, involved in transforming construction, taking lessons from the Grenfell Disaster, and working with business and policy leaders to change business models.
Researchers take systems approaches, and are using systems engineering to address arising issues and challenges. These challenges are often interdisciplinary, requiring integrated approaches across water, structures, transport, fluid dynamics and geotechnics disciplines. Drawing on this research, through the day we seek to explore new ways to understand production systems, infrastructure interdependencies and relationships between projects and operations.
Agenda
09.00 09.30 Registration – Level 1. Coffee, Level 2 Concourse
09.30 09.35 Welcome – Professor Nick Buenfeld, Head of the Department Civil and Environmental Engineering
09.35 10.00 Introduction to the Centre / Overview of the Day – Professor Jennifer Whyte, Director, Centre for Systems Engineering and Innovation
10.00 10.30 Keynote 1: Transforming Construction – Dr David Hancock, Construction Director, Infrastructure and Projects Authority
10.30 11.00 Session 1. Production Systems and Cyber-Physical Infrastructure – Dr Robert Vollum (chair)
• A Toolkit for Systems Engineering in Infrastructure, Mikela Chatzimichailidou, WSP and Honorary Research Associate, CSEI
• Quality Functional Deployment and Modular Offsite Construction, Tanawan Wee, Research Postgraduate
• Codifying Information Flow in Modular Offsite Construction, Ranjith Soman, Research Postgraduate
• New Connections: “Securing the critical infrastructure”, Professor Chris Hankin, Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology, Director of RITICS
11.00 11.30 Coffee and Networking, Student Research Posters – Level 2 Concourse
11.30 12.00 Session 2. Infrastructure Interdependencies – Professor David Fisk (chair)
• CSEI funded project 2018. Green infrastructure interrelation with water-energy-waste nexus, Dr Koen van Dam
• Systems Engineering applications for water management, Dr Ana Mijic
• Dynamically adaptive control for resilient water supply networks, Dr Ivan Stoianov
• New Directions: “Taking the vision forwards”, Ben Kidd
12.00 12.30 Session 3. Lifecycle: Innovation across Projects and Operations – Dr Arnab Majumdar (chair)
• CSEI funded project 2018. Model-based systems engineering approach to understanding emergency evacuation operations management in large, complex public occupancy buildings, Georgia Bateman
• CSEI funded project 2018. Coupling physics, humans and machines in holistic, resilient and automated systems for building management, Dr John Craske
• New Connections: “Metal 3D printing in construction” Professor Leroy Gardner
12.30 13.15 Lunch, Post-it Note Feedback on Strategic Directions – Level 2 Concourse
13.15 13.45 Keynote 2: Lessons from Grenfell – Dame Judith Hackitt, Author of Hackitt Review: Building a Safer Future, Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety
13.45 14.30 Panel Discussion on Transforming Construction Professor Jennifer Whyte (chair), Mark Farmer, CAST Consultancy, Jaimie Johnston, Bryden Wood, Peter Vale, Tideway and Adam Locke, Laing O’Rourke
14.30 15.00 Close out