UKCRIC Facilities

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. 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.

 

Infrastructure Laboratory	Based at
National Distributed Water Infrastructure Facility	University of Sheffield	Prof. Steve Thornton, s.f.thornton@sheffield.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
Centre for Infrastructure Materials	University of Leeds	Prof. Leon Black, l.black@leeds.ac.uk
Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory	UCL	Prof. Nick Tyler, n.tyler@ucl.ac.uk
National Research Facility for Water and Wastewater Treatment	Cranfield University	Prof. Paul Jeffrey, p.j.jeffrey@cranfield.ac.uk
National Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Laboratory	University of Bristol	Prof. 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	Prof. David Chapman, d.n.chapman@bham.ac.uk
Advanced Infrastructure Materials Laboratory	Imperial College London	Prof. 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	Prof. Gordon Masterton, gordon.masterton@ed.ac.uk
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
The National Robotarium	Heriot-Watt University and University of Edinburgh	National Robotarium, NationalRobotarium@hw.ac.uk
National Facility for Infrastructure Construction	Loughborough University	Prof. Sergio Cavalaro, s.cavalaro@lboro.ac.uk

 

Urban Observatory	Based at	Contact
Newcastle Urban Observatory	Newcastle University	www.urbanobservatory.ac.uk green.infrastructure@newcastle.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	Urban Observatory (cranfield.ac.uk) Dr Simon Jude s.jude@cranfield.ac.uk
Manchester Urban Observatory	University of Manchester	www.urbanobservatory.manchester.ac.uk muo@manchester.ac.uk
Birmingham Urban Observatory	University of Birmingham	birminghamurbanobservatory.com Lee Chapman, l.chapman@bham.ac.uk

 

Modelling and Simulation	Based at	Contact
DAFNI	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell	Marion Samler, marion.samler@stfc.ac.uk

Professor David Richards 

Head of UKCRIC Test Facilities 

+44 (023) 8059 2848

djr@soton.ac.uk

 

Professor Phil James 

Project Director for UKCRIC Urban Observatories 

+44 (0) 191 208 6612

philip.james@newcastle.ac.uk

Professor Jim Hall

Principal Investigator for DAFNI

 +44 (0)1865 275847

jim.hall@ouce.ox.ac.uk