Engineering And Technology

The CSIR’s research group for housing and urban studies consists of a multidisciplinary team that specialises in the fields of, among others, architecture, urban planning and geographical information science. The group conducts applied research in support of the development of liveable, safe, res...

The CSIR’s coastal engineering and port infrastructure (CEPI) group, situated in Stellenbosch in the Western Cape, focuses on research in the marine and coastal engineering domains. This includes port layout and ship maneuvering optimisation through physical and numerical modelling, the assessmen...

The road materials testing research group provides specialist testing services; develops innovative kits and customised equipment; and creates new technologies and testing procedures in support of the science, engineering and technology needs of the pavement engineering sectors in South Africa an...

Computer vision is the study of methods that seek to understand digital images in an attempt to extract useful information. Common computer vision tasks include scene reconstruction, video tracking, object recognition and pose estimation, motion estimation and image restoration. The CSIR undertak...