Infrastructure Management: University of Birmingham

They pride theirselves on their able and enthusiastic research students, and they are constantly seeking to add to their research teams new students who wish to contribute to the advances being made here. They offer a stimulating research environment with structured research training in almost every branch of civil engineering. This enables their graduates to obtain interesting and rewarding careers, whether in industrial practice, industrial research or academia. Their 2001 RAE rating acknowledges their excellence in research.

Research in civil engineering is carried out in the Infrastructure Engineering and Management Research Centre, one of ten research centres in the School of Engineering.

Civil engineering covers activities that range from the management of water resources and the environment to the mechanical performance of complex structural units that could equally be used in aircraft and ships as for civil engineering purposes. As a result of this diversity and the need for collaboration between sub-disciplines to achieve the best possible research environment, their research is organised into four broad themes:

• Environmental engineering
• Infrastructure management
• Transport technology
• Engineering computation

Within these themes, the more traditional subject areas are fully covered by a spectrum of projects that range from those generating fundamental understanding to those targeted at specific engineering applications of new knowledge, techniques or processes.

This theme encompasses all aspects of creating and maintaining railways, roads, bridges, cuttings and embankments, sewers, canals and navigable waterways, pipelines, tunnels, buildings and other structures. It ranges from the science and engineering of material performance through to knowledge management and the study of operational processes in construction. Government funding is now being directed at achieving greater efficiency from existing infrastructure via enhanced maintenance rather than new construction, a scenario that is ideally suited to our philosophy of themed research.

Contact: Professor Chris Rogers
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5066
Email: c.d.f.rogers@bham.ac.uk

How to apply

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• http://www.apply.bham.ac.uk/

Related links

• http://www.postgraduate.bham.ac.uk/programmes/research/engineering/research-civil-engineering.shtml
• http://www.postgraduate.bham.ac.uk/programmes/department-civil-engineering.shtml