UKCRIC Facilities

UKCRIC has 12 test facilities and six Urban Observatories across the UK at a number of partner organisations, many of which are already available for use by academics and students as well as industry and government. 

If you'd like to use our facilities, it's important that you start talking to us early, to ensure we can provide the resources required for the proposed project. If you would like to enquire about using our facilities, please contact us to talk through your proposal. The first stage of the process will be to fill out an application form, which will shortly be available to complete on this page. Until then, please contact us and we can send you the form.

We will then arrange for you to visit the facility. We'll also discuss with you any potential intellectual property arising from the project, and put plans into place for its appropriate protection.

Please note that EPSRC-funded proposals will be given top priority for usage of the facility and accompanying equipment.

Full details of UKCRIC's test facilities and Urban Observatories can be found below.

Test Facility	Based at	Contact
National Distributed Water Infrastructure Facility	University of Sheffield	Dr Alexey Bochenkov, a.bochenkov@sheffield.ac.uk
Fire and Impact Laboratory for Resilient Infrastructure Materials	University of Manchester	Professor Yong Wang, yong.wang@manchester.ac.uk
National Infrastructure Laboratory	University of Southampton	Dr Duncan Crump, dac400@soton.ac.uk
Centre for Infrastructure Materials	University of Leeds	Professor Leon Black, l.black@leeds.ac.uk
Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory	UCL	Professor Nick Tyler, n.tyler@ucl.ac.uk
National Research Facility for Water and Wastewater Treatment	Cranfield University	Professor Paul Jeffrey, p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk
Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Laboratory	University of Bristol	Professor Anastasios Sextos, a.sextos@bristol.ac.uk
National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing	University of Cambridge	Dr Pieter Desnerck, prhd2@eng.cam.ac.uk
National Buried Infrastructure Facility	University of Birmingham	Professor David Chapman, d.n.chapman@bham.ac.uk
Advanced Infrastructure Materials Laboratory	Imperial College London	Professor Chris Cheeseman, c.cheeseman@imperial.ac.uk
National Green Infrastructure Facility	Newcastle University	Dr Ross Stirling, ross.stirling@ncl.ac.uk
Centre for Future Infrastructure	University of Edinburgh	Professor Gordon Masterton, gordon.masterton@ed.ac.uk

 

Urban Observatory	Based at	Contact
Newcastle Urban Observatory	Newcastle University	www.urbanobservatory.ac.uk urbanobservatory@ncl.ac.uk
Bristol Infrastructure Collaboratory	University of Bristol	www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/ukcricbristol/collaboratory/ Dr Theo Tryfonas, Theo.Tryfonas@bristol.ac.uk
Urban Flows Observatory	University of Sheffield	urbanflows.ac.uk urbanflows@sheffield.ac.uk
Cranfield Urban Observatory	Cranfield University	www.cranfield.ac.uk/facilities/urban-observatory Angela Colclough, a.colclough@cranfield.ac.uk
Manchester Urban Observatory	University of Manchester	www.urbanobservatory.manchester.ac.uk Matthew Harrison, matthew.harrison@manchester.ac.uk
Birmingham Urban Observatory	University of Birmingham	birminghamurbanobservatory.com Lee Chapman, l.chapman@bham.ac.uk

Professor David Richards 

Head of UKCRIC Test Facilities 

+44 (023) 8059 2848
djr@soton.ac.uk

 

Professor Stephanie Glendinning 

Principal Investigator for UKCRIC Urban Observatories 

+44 (0) 191 208 6612

stephanie.glendinning@ncl.ac.uk

Professor Jim Hall

Principal Investigator for DAFNI

 +44 (0)1865 275847
jim.hall@ouce.ox.ac.uk