Built environment

Getting the logistics right when disasters strike CSIR Unit Fellow Antony Cooper was recently invited to attend the Humanitarian Logistics: Networks for Africa conference held at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center in Bellagio, Lake Como, Italy, where he presented an insightful paper titled Some thoughts on humanitarian logistics and qualitative methods.

Top international operations researchers to gather in South Africa in July During the week of 13-18 July 2008, representatives from the international operations research community will meet at the Sandton Convention Centre for the 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).

CSIR researcher awarded for innovative methodology presented at international conference Dr Johann McDuling, a senior researcher at the CSIR, has devised a method that calculates the service life of a building by quantifying changes in condition over time and determining the effects of maintenance levels on service life.