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Civil Engineering Volume 170 Issue CE2 May 2017 ■ Stabilising Lyme Regis – a strategic approach ■ Planning and procuring the Shatin–Central cross-harbour rail tunnel, Hong Kong ■ Innovative uses of thermal imaging in civil engineering ■ Sustainable post-earthquake reconstruction in Pakistan www.civilengineering-ice.com ISSN 0965 089 X Call for Papers Cities of the future Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers Civil Engineering SPECIAL ISSUE Editors: Philippe Bouillard, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium and Priti Parikh, University College London, London, UK Civil Engineering is planning a special issue for Why publish with ICE? 2018 on cities of the future. Access to ICE membership – ICE Publishing, as the publishing arm of ICE, is the only publisher The 21st century has seen a rapid increase in population with over 50% of the that brings you direct access to ICE’s worldwide world’s population living in cities. 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Ing., Arup, London, UK 49 Civil Engineering Editorial Volume 170 Issue CE2 May 2017 Rawlings ICE Publishing: All rights reserved http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/jcien.2017.170.2.50 EDITORIAL:May 2017 Editorial Colin Rawlings BSc, DIC, MSc, CEng, MICE, MASCE, FGS, CGeol CH2M/High Speed Two, London, UK Welcome to the May 2017 issue of Civil Engineering, the pixel, although they found that the best time for taking general journal of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil thermal images of infrastructure is about an hour after sunset Engineers. in the shadow-free twilight period. The results accurately This issue is very much in line with Institution of Civil identified cracks in the base of the aqueduct channel lining, Engineers president Tim Broyd’s recent call to civil engineers enabling repairs to be carried out prior to a full-scale leak to adopt modern technology. We have briefings on ultra- occurring. fast transport, remote sensing algorithms, augmented- The final paper, by Rafi et al. (2017), covers initiatives to reality inspections and safety management software as well improve building resilience in Gajjar, Pakistan. The town was as a review of the proceedings of last year’s International severely damaged by a major earthquake in 2013 – which Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction. killed hundreds of people and reduced mud houses to rubble Meanwhile, the four papers in this issue cover both high- – so was selected as a pilot study for redevelopment. and low-technology solutions used by civil engineers in the The town is in a remote and sparsely populated part of UK, Hong Kong and Pakistan. The first paper, by Moore et al. Pakistan with limited access to gas, electricity and machinery. (2017), describes a strategic integrated programme of coastal The design of a simple yet seismically resistant earth building and cliff stabilisation measures at Lyme Regis in Dorset, UK. reinforced with bamboo was therefore developed and tested.