 My name is Kosoz Babel Mithryou. I am Professor of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Thessaly, Greece. I am a member of the Management Committee of the Action Quantifying the Value of Structural Health Monitoring. The action addresses important issues falling in the forefront of research in the city infrastructure which are expected actually to impact developments in current design and maintenance practices. The project points out the value of information that one collects from monitoring systems and also combines with modeling in order to identify and raise the health of the structure throughout its lifetime. Such information is important for decision-makers to put forward optimal design strategies for cost-effective maintenance of civil infrastructure. Moreover, the monitoring information is going to be very important for changing current design optimization practices to data-driven design optimization strategies under uncertainty.