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UKCRIC is an integrated research capability with an ambition to underpin the renewal, sustainment and improvement of infrastructure and cities in the UK and elsewhere.

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OUR WORK

Project Spotlight: PLEXUS PLUS - first pseudo-static experimental test on integral abutments at the UKCRIC Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction Laboratory (SoFSI) of the University of Bristol

The UKCRIC project PLEXUS PLUS has been the first experimental campaign in the UKCRIC Soil-Foundation-Structure-Interaction Laboratory (SoFSI) lab.

Project spotlight: Developing a universal, physics-based model to predict the susceptibility of fine sediment to erosion

Researchers at Cranfield University are using UKCRIC research infrastructure to support the development of new mechanistic models of fine sediment erodibility for application to engineering and water quality problems.

Digital twins Infrastructure

Project spotlight: Building digital twins of social systems

University of Leeds has put DAFNI hardware funds to innovative use in digital twin computer simulations

Transport Infrastructure Research

Project spotlight: A digital twin for roads

On 24 February 2022, the International Road Federation, in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Manchester presented a webinar with the theme “A digital twin for roads: A combined physics and data-driven approach to predict roads deterioration”.

Transport Data Carbon Zero

Project spotlight: Towards a national digital twin for urban transport

A collaboration between the UKCRIC Urban Observatories of Newcastle, Birmingham and Manchester, the Alan Turing Institute and the Department for Transport (DfT) is demonstrating the potential of a science-led digital twin approach to decarbonising transport, and standardising this approach on a national scale.

NEWS

21/07/2022

Leading international experts explore strategies in new infrastructure delivery methods

20/07/2022

EPSRC Report outlines Tomorrow’s Engineering Research Challenges

20/07/2022

EPSRC funding for low-carbon cements and concretes

22/06/2022

International Women in Engineering Day 2022

Events

Don’t miss this year’s ISNGI 2022, the International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure

Infrastructure Sustainability Cities

07/09/2022

Don’t miss this year’s ISNGI 2022, the International Symposium for Next Generation Infrastructure

21/09/2022

UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities