UKCRIC has a number of Infrastructure Laboratories, Urban Observatories and Modelling and Simulation facilities across the UK at its partner organisations, many of which are already available for use by academics and students as well as industry and government. Full details of UKCRIC's Infrastructure Laboratories, Urban Observatories and Modelling and Simulation facilities can be found on the links in the tables below. They are clustered by theme for ease of identifying collective capabilities and may therefore feature more than once in the list. Materials from our October 2021 Facilities Showcase, including videos of taster presentations from each facility as well as the presentation slides are also available on these links.
If you'd like to use any of 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 email us at hello@ukcric.com.
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. EPSRC-funded proposals will be given top priority for usage of the facility and accompanying equipment.
Please note that UKCRIC is not a lab service provider or an accredited analysis service.
Built Infrastructure Cluster
| Facility | Based at | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| National Buried Infrastructure Facility | University of Birmingham | Prof. Nicole Metje, n.metje@bham.ac.uk |
| National Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Laboratory | University of Bristol | Prof. Anastasios Sextos, a.sextos@bristol.ac.uk |
| Centre for Infrastructure Materials | University of Leeds | Prof. Leon Black, l.black@leeds.ac.uk |
| Advanced Infrastructure Materials Laboratory | Imperial College London | Prof. Chris Cheeseman, c.cheeseman@imperial.ac.uk |
| Fire and Impact Laboratory for Resilient Infrastructure Materials | University of Manchester | Prof. Yong Wang, yong.wang@manchester.ac.uk |
| National Infrastructure Laboratory | University of Southampton |
Dr. Andrew Robinson, A.Robinson@soton.ac.uk |
|
Loughborough University |
Prof. Sergio Cavalaro, s.cavalaro@lboro.ac.uk |
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| VSimulators at Bath | University of Bath |
Dr Antony Darby, A.P.Darby@bath.ac.uk |
| VSimulators at Exeter | University of Exeter |
Prof. James Brownjohn, vsimulators@exeter.ac.uk |
Data Driven Solutions Cluster
|
DAFNI (Modelling and simulation) |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell |
Katie Cartmell, katie.cartmell@stfc.ac.uk |
| National Research Facility for Water and Wastewater Treatment | Cranfield University | Prof. Paul Jeffrey, p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk |
| Centre for Future Infrastructure | University of Edinburgh | Prof. Sean Smith, Sean.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
| National Green Infrastructure Facility | Newcastle University | Dr Ross Stirling, ross.stirling@ncl.ac.uk |
| Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies | Aston University |
Dr Haris Alexakis, c.alexakis@aston.ac.uk |
| Urban Observatory Network (see last table) |
Energy Systems Cluster
| National Infrastructure Laboratory | University of Southampton |
Dr. Andrew Robinson, A.Robinson@soton.ac.uk |
| Centre for Future Infrastructure | University of Edinburgh | Prof. Sean Smith, Sean.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
| National Green Infrastructure Facility | Newcastle University | Dr Ross Stirling, ross.stirling@ncl.ac.uk |
| National Research Facility for Water and Wastewater Treatment | Cranfield University | Prof. Paul Jeffrey, p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk |
| National Distributed Water Infrastructure Facility | University of Sheffield | Prof. Steve Thornton, s.f.thornton@sheffield.ac.uk |
| National Research Facility for Infrastructure Sensing | University of Cambridge | Dr Pieter Desnerck, prhd2@eng.cam.ac.uk |
| Urban Observatory Network (see last table) |
Transport and Mobility Cluster
| National Infrastructure Laboratory | University of Southampton |
Dr. Andrew Robinson, A.Robinson@soton.ac.uk |
| National Buried Infrastructure Facility | University of Birmingham | Prof. Nicole Metje, n.metje@bham.ac.uk |
| Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory | UCL | Prof. Nick Tyler, n.tyler@ucl.ac.uk |
| Urban Observatory Network (see last table) |
Water and Environment Cluster
| National Distributed Water Infrastructure Facility | University of Sheffield | Prof. Steve Thornton, s.f.thornton@sheffield.ac.uk |
| National Research Facility for Water and Wastewater Treatment | Cranfield University | Prof. Paul Jeffrey, p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk |
| Centre for Future Infrastructure | University of Edinburgh | Prof. Sean Smith, Sean.Smith@ed.ac.uk |
| National Green Infrastructure Facility | Newcastle University | Dr Ross Stirling, ross.stirling@ncl.ac.uk |
| Urban Observatory Network (see last table) |
Urban Observatories
| Urban Observatory | Based at | Contact |
|---|---|---|
| Newcastle Urban Observatory | Newcastle University | |
| Bristol Infrastructure Collaboratory | University of Bristol |
Dr Theo Tryfonas Theo.Tryfonas@bristol.ac.uk |
| Urban Flows Observatory | University of Sheffield | urbanflows@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Cranfield Urban Observatory | Cranfield University |
Dr Simon Jude s.jude@cranfield.ac.uk |
Professor Phil James
Project Director for UKCRIC Urban Observatories
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