UC Berkeley and the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) announce a second-phase collaboration agreement to tackle infrastructure and operational challenges facing water and wastewater utilities. The Phase 2 funding of $2.8 million will build on the accomplishments of EBMUD’s initial… Read More »CSI extends innovation partnership with EBMUD
By Julie Bobyock Energy supply and demand can drastically change across seasons, geography, and in response to various extremes like heatwaves or floods. Storing excess energy underground when demand is low and extracting the extra resources when demand is high can… Read More »Fiber Optic Sensing for Smarter and Safer Natural Gas Storage
As part of Ignited‘s “Sustainable Solutions: Water & Green Jobs Experience” Week at the end of June 2025, 30 East Bay teachers visited the CSI lab, where they explored advancements in seismic resilience, leak detection and predictive analytics – tools that are… Read More »Educators visit CSI
Prof. Kenichi Soga and Prof. Dimitrios Zekkos were invited as Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in the Geoprofessional Business Association‘s (GBA) Crystal Ball Workshop that was held this week, June 24-25 in Kansas City, Kansas. The topic of the Crystalball workshop… Read More »Soga and Zekkos Invited as Subject Matter Experts in GBA’s Crystal ball Workshop on AI in Geotechnical Engineering
Kenichi Soga was one of the panelists at the recent Builtworlds’ 2025 Venture West conference. The panel’s theme was “Rebuilding Aging Infrastructure with Technology and Private Capital.” In light of the $1.2 trillion in public funding allocated for U.S. infrastructure… Read More »Kenichi Soga speaking at Builtworlds’ 2025 Venture West Conference
We are excited to share a recent two-part publication led by Professor Kenichi Soga that proposes and applies a novel framework to evaluate how emerging technologies (ETs) contribute to the resilience of civil infrastructure systems. In Part I: A Decision-Making… Read More »New Journal Articles: New Framework and Case Studies for Evaluating Emerging Technologies in Civil Infrastructure Resilience
A new journal article co-authored by Zhichao Zhang and Professor Kenichi Soga presents a micromechanics-inspired thermodynamic constitutive model for fluid-saturated granular materials subjected to complex loading. The study offers a novel approach to predicting material responses under multidirectional cyclic shearing… Read More »New Journal Article on Granular Thermodynamics for Complex Shearing Conditions
On May 21, 2025, the Smart and Connected Communities (SCC) Project team convened a successful community meeting at the Jonas Center on the Indian Valley Campus of the College of Marin. The event brought together around 30 participants—including local government… Read More »Community-Centered Wildfire Resilience: SCC Project Hosts Marin Community Meeting
UC Berkeley Global Metropolitan Studies Meeting On April 18, GMS hosted a joint workshop on Disaster Preparedness and Recovery for California utilities, in partnership with the East Bay Municipal Utility District, the College of Engineering, and the College of Environmental… Read More »Disaster Preparedness and Recovery Workshop
The OpenSRA2 project, funded by the California Energy Commission, aims to enhance the seismic risk assessment of natural gas storage and pipeline infrastructure by employing a novel blend of remote and embedded sensing technology alongside advanced data management and analysis… Read More »OpenSRA2 Technical Advisory Committee visits CSI