Background
The University of Cambridge is facilitating a series of Future Infrastructure Forums (FIF) over the course of a year. The basis of the FIF series is to bring together UK academics and industry to define a future research vision for ground and structural engineering research.
This website acts as a repository of information for the forum programme.
Partners
FIF partners include university research groups in the ground and structural engineering sector and a consortium of key stakeholders including owners, designers and builders involved in developing the UK’s civil infrastructure.
University Partners
| University of Bath University of Bristol University of Birmingham University of Cambridge Cardiff University University of Edinburgh |
Heriot-Watt University Imperial College London Loughborough University University of Leeds University of Manchester |
Newcastle University University of Nottingham University of Oxford Queen’s University Belfast University of Reading |
University of Sheffield University of Southampton University of Surrey University of Warwick University College London |
Industry and Government Partners
| Arup Atkins Buro Happold Gifford Halcrow Mott Macdonald Parsons Brinkerhoff WSP |
BRE Bridge Owners Forum Geotechnical Asset Owners Forum CIRIA CSIC Institute of Civil Engineers MBE KTN Transport Research Laboratory |
EPSRC Humber Bridge Board Highways Agency Infrastructure UK National Grid Network Rail Transport for London Transport Scotland Welsh Government |
Chairmen
Campbell Middleton, University of Cambridge
Campbell is the Laing O'Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering and Director of the Centre. His main research interests are in bridge engineering, in particular the ultimate strength of concrete structures, yield-line analysis, risk and safety, wireless sensor networks and NDT applied to bridges, computer vision applications in civil engineering and the management of bridges
Barry Clarke, University of Leeds
Barry is a Professor of Civil Engineering Geotechnics at the University of Leeds. His early career involved running his own company based on his in-situ testing research at the University of Cambridge. He is a Vice President of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the representative for higher education on the sector skills council for construction. His research interests range from education and training of civil engineers, design and construction of geotechnical structures to resilience of the infrastructure.
Chairman profile photos taken at FIF1, courtesy of Amanda Pyatt.