Centre for Sustainable Environments

Working across three of the four University of Bradford Faculties, a dedicated team of specialists lead on interdisciplinary approaches that integrate technological, organisational and societal solutions to meet contemporary environmental challenges.

Research themes

These industry themes address directly the 21st century challenges facing the civil engineering profession – reducing waste and developing more sustainable construction materials:

Water engineering and natural environment

Sediment transportation, flow-structure interaction, coastal hydrodynamics and environmental flows.

Steel-concrete composite structures and circular economy

Composite beams and concrete-filled steel tubes. Reuse of structural elements and materials.

Concrete and geotechnical engineering

Fibre-reinforced polymers as internal or external reinforcement for concrete structures.

Acoustic engineering and management

Effect of noise from traffic on the levels of tranquillity in urban and rural environments and noise reducing barriers.

Facilities

We at the University of Bradford are proud of our track record for producing, exploiting and transferring useful knowledge and products to businesses and the community. Our team has an established record of accomplishment in providing support to the business and public sectors, as well as a long history of working in collaboration with a wide range of academic partners. We pride ourselves on our ability to turn 'ideas into action' and look forward to using our expertise to help you meet your future needs.

Hydraulic physical scale modelling and instrument testing

Heavy structures laboratory

A person watching TV in the acoustics laboratory

Acoustic monitoring, design and testing

Stakeholder engagement and partnership working

Our team has an established record of accomplishment in providing support to the business and public sectors, as well as a long history of working in collaboration with a wide range of academic partners. We pride ourselves on our ability to turn 'ideas into action' and look forward to using our expertise to help you meet your future needs.

The Centre's specialists in public and stakeholder engagement have a well-established record of accomplishment in facilitating dialogue and reconciling agendas between public institutions, such as local authorities, the private sector, and members of the public.

Our strength lies in the fact that we recognise that working in partnership can often achieve more than any organisation working in isolation.

Our experience has involved both researching the background to public / stakeholder engagement initiatives and post-hoc evaluation, so that future initiatives can be focused more effectively.

Find out more about our industy themes and see examples of our projects >>

Case studies

Heavy machinery applying pressure to a concrete beam to test its strength

Current PhD projects

Behaviour of Stainless Steel Composite Structures
Effect of bed roughness on the spreading and dilution of gravity currents
Environmental assessment of offshore wind energy devices
Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Stay In Place (SIP) formwork for structural concrete elements
Flow characteristics and sediment transport in vegetated compound channels