Smart Places

The management of immovable infrastructure assets is critical to ensuring that they are maintained and operated in such a way that they remain fit for purpose throughout their service lifecycle. The strategic infrastructure management group assists with the planning, operating and maintenance of ...

The CSIR undertakes building performance research to inform the development of innovations, best-practice guidelines and implementation support in the built environment. Building performance can be described in terms of four elements: indoor environment quality, best-practice design, sustainable ...

The CSIR’s construction materials research group promotes and supports contextually cognisant knowledge-generation and application of science, technology and innovation in buildings by leveraging multidisciplinary perspectives. The focus of the group is on functional building infrastructure plann...

The decadal SOCCO science plan focuses on the hypothesis that fine-scale ocean dynamics are key to understanding the role of the Southern Ocean in global century-scale trends of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and regional climate change. Effectively, large-scale climate is driven by the small-s...

The negative effects of climate change on a global and national scale needs collection of accurate data on the climate system at various spatial and time scales. The CSIR has invested in the development of a capability to perform seamless climate model simulations. This comprises statistical and ...