"Introducing the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure", part of "The future of Infrastructure today!" webinar series

Lecture date: Friday November 3, 9:00-10:00AM PST

The “Future of Infrastructure today!” is a monthly webinar series under the Auspices of the UC Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure (https://smartinfrastructure.berkeley.edu/). 

The webinar series aims to feature the latest scientific, technological and computational advances in the field of infrastructure that are poised to have an impact in the infrastructure field, amplify forward-thinking ideas and promote research advances, global education, and integration with the infrastructure industry. An explicit goal of the webinar is to bring together a synergistic community of stakeholders, engineers, community leaders, contractors and the tech industry with the goal to achieve truly resilient, sustainable and equitable communities.

In the first webinar of the series we begin with an introduction to the Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure from its director himself, Professor Kenichi Soga. Among other things will be discussed:

• Failure to anticipate infrastructure deterioration due to poor design or workmanship, construction problems, unforeseen stressors, and inadequate maintenance and repair
• How the covid-19 pandemic and the increased teleworking changed infrastructure demands and transform residential and travel patterns
• How we can improve the capability to predict, design for, and manage the life expectancy of infrastructure
• How can the built environment be rehabilitated or created so that future generations benefit from smart infrastructure
• The role of the new Berkeley Center for Smart Infrastructure can make to transform the way we design, build, maintain and reuse our infrastructure