Projects
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| Reference Number | EP/R013535/1 | |
| Title | UKCRIC - PLEXUS - Priming Laboratory EXperiments on infrastructure and Urban Systems | |
| Status | Completed | |
| Energy Categories | Energy Efficiency(Other) 20%; Not Energy Related 80%; |
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| Research Types | Basic and strategic applied research 100% | |
| Science and Technology Fields | ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Civil Engineering) 75%; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Mechanical, Aeronautical and Manufacturing Engineering) 25%; |
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| UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation | Not Cross-cutting 100% | |
| Principal Investigator |
Professor CDF Rogers Infra. Engineering & Management University of Birmingham |
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| Award Type | Standard | |
| Funding Source | EPSRC | |
| Start Date | 01 January 2018 | |
| End Date | 28 February 2021 | |
| Duration | 38 months | |
| Total Grant Value | £1,013,092 | |
| Industrial Sectors | Civil eng. & built environment | |
| Region | West Midlands | |
| Programme | UKCRIC | |
| Investigators | Principal Investigator | Professor CDF Rogers , Infra. Engineering & Management, University of Birmingham |
| Other Investigator | Professor CA Taylor , Civil Engineering, University of Bristol Dr F De Luca , Civil Engineering, University of Bristol Professor G Mylonakis , Civil Engineering, University of Bristol Dr A Sextos , Civil Engineering, University of Bristol Dr DMG Taborda , Civil and Environmental Eng, Imperial College London Professor Y Wang , Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester Professor Q Li , Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering, University of Manchester Dr P Jeffrey , School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University Dr B Jefferson , School of Applied Sciences, Cranfield University Professor P Jarvis , School of Water, Energy and Environmen, Cranfield University Dr R Villa , School of Water, Energy and Environmen, Cranfield University Dr JA Smethurst , Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton Dr DJ Richards , Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton Professor W Powrie , Faculty of Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton Dr A Schellart , Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield Dr P Shepley , Civil and Structural Engineering, University of Sheffield Dr S Rees , Civil Engineering, University of Leeds Professor L Black , Civil Engineering, University of Leeds Dr FA Loveridge , Civil Engineering, University of Leeds Dr N Koteyko , School of Languages Linguistics and Film, Queen Mary, University of London Professor S Glendinning , Civil Engineering and Geosciences, Newcastle University Dr RA Stirling , Sch of Engineering, Newcastle University Professor NJ Cassidy , Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham Dr I Jefferson , Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham Dr N Metje , Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham Dr D Chapman , Civil Engineering, University of Birmingham Professor S Tait , Sch of Engineering Design and Technology, University of Bradford Dr CI (Chris ) Goodier , Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University Professor N Dixon , Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University Professor P Carrillo , Civil and Building Engineering, Loughborough University Professor SD Guest , Engineering, University of Cambridge Dr J Schooling , Engineering, University of Cambridge Professor T Papaioannou , Faculty of Arts and Social Sci (FASS), Open University |
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| Abstract | The UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC) is, with a (matched) capital investment of 138m from BEIS, creating world-class city observatory, modelling & simulation and physical laboratory facilities. The UKCRIC Laboratories will form the state-of-the-art, world class, national research infrastructure that UK academic researchers and infrastructure providers need if they are to deliver world leading infrastructure provision and performance. UKCRIC's overall mission is to move away from the traditional, somewhat siloed, academic and industry viewpoints, which all stakeholders now increasingly recognise is a major barrier to innovation and to the radical changes in infrastructure provision practice that are needed to tackle the huge scale of the UK and global infrastructure renewal challenge.This proposal from UKCRIC's Laboratories Strand aims to prepare for and use UKCRIC's laboratory facilities for the ultimate purpose of developing UKCRIC's research staff capacity & capability, and create a Common Vision, Strategic Research Agenda & Implementation Action Plan for the Laboratories Strand via three expansive yet interlinked critical technical challenges.It meets EPSRC's objectives of encouraging new collaborations; demonstrating cross institution-theme-facility working central to the UKCRIC vision; contributing to the benefits as set out in the UKCRIC Business Case; & delivering research aligning with the outcomes from UKCRIC's workshops.Three important and urgent technical challenges will contextualise the research:(1) intense physical interdependency of urban infrastructure systems, each of which relies on ground support;(2) harvesting energy from buried infrastructure systems; and,(3) accelerated deterioration of infrastructure materials due to extreme loading.The challenges are synergistic, having been identified by industry as high added-value problems offering quick-win outcomes.Exploration of these challenge will inform learning capture and be translated into the Vision, Research Agenda & Implementation Action Plan.PLEXUS will enable academics and industry stakeholders to co-produce and test the essential collaborative frameworks that will underpin the success of the overall UKCRIC enterprise. This integrated view will help drive progress towards the more integrated and holistic sector mindset that must underpin transformative thinking and practice in infrastructure provision. | |
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| Added to Database | 15/03/19 | |
