Reservoir safety: our part in helping future reform and management of water infrastructure

Find out how research and teaching in our Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering align with government policy to reform reservoir safety in the UK.
Our research is broadly grouped under six key themes with interdisciplinary crossover.
Sustainable natural resources, food and water security, and public health
Water management, coastal protection, ecosystem restoration, and nature-based infrastructure
Resilient buildings and resilient energy, transport, and urban infrastructure.
Decarbonisation of industrial and agricultural processes, carbon sequestration, and carbon capture.
Atmospheric dynamics, and weather-related research
The climate system, including its variability, and the causes of climate change.
Read about what's new in our research centre.
Find out how research and teaching in our Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering align with government policy to reform reservoir safety in the UK.
Communities in Colombia, Indonesia and the USA’s Gulf Coast threatened by climate disasters will develop resilient, regenerative new buildings with researchers
INBUILT project launches to transform European sustainable building practices, testing the suitability and lifetime impacts of natural and recycled materials
A project led by the Universities of Bath and Cardiff will work with communities in Bristol and Swansea to co-design energy efficient and low carbon housing
Dr Neil Hindley has been awarded funding for a five-year Independent Research Fellowship that could lead to more accurate whole-atmosphere models.
Find out about our ongoing projects.
Locating resource efficiency at the heart of future industrial strategy in the UK.
Funded by the British Academy, the WAFER project is enhancing the use of sustainable earthen construction in developing countries.
This EPSRC-funded Programme Grant will examine how infrastructure assets can be better maintained and monitored for future resilience.
This research will improve how uncertainty is treated during life cycle assessment (LCA) of construction products and of whole buildings.
Professor Stephen Emmitt and Dr Alexander Copping are co-investigators in this EPSRC-funded project in partnership with industry.
An EPSRC-funded project across several institutions, in which Dr Paul Shepherd of CASA and several of our post-doctoral staff are participants.
We welcome PhD students to join us, as well as collaborative opportunities with industry. Find out more about what we offer.
Join our collaborative and supportive research community, and start your journey to becoming an expert in your field.
We have access to facilities and equipment for computational, laboratory, and field testing.
Details about the research facilities available at the Building Research Park at Wroughton.
We research the increasing threat of extreme weather events resulting from both anthropogenic climate change and natural processes. The scale of this challenge demands multi- and transdisciplinary system-level changes across all aspects of society. We cover: