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The Edinburgh Research Partnership Joint Research Institute on Civil and Environmental Engineering conducts research into the conventional areas of quality of life, public health and welfare as well as the emerging key goal of UK government policy: sustainable development. Areas of interest include: Intelligent, Smart and Innovative Infrastructure, Remote Sensing and Health Monitoring in Infrastructure Applications, Contaminant Containment and Subsoil Environments, Transport, Water Management, Particulate and Granular Solids and Soils, Fire Safety and Structural Engineering, and Timber Engineering and Wood Science.
The principal areas of research within civil engineering are: Water Management (including flood inundation modelling, modelling of sediment and solute transport, water resources supply and distribution, sustainable urban drainage, non-linear waves and instrumentation); Materials and GeoMechanics (including cementitious materials, sensor technology and railway engineering); and Structural Engineering (including elastic wave propagation, fire modelling, corrosion damage and measurement in concrete structures, bond and anchorage of reinforcement and life cycle management of infrastructure).
The collaborative programmes that form part of the Edinburgh Research Partnership (ERP) in Engineering and Mathematics are managed through a series of Joint Research Institutes which cover Signal and Image Processing, Subsurface Science and Engineering, Energy, Integrated Systems (Precision Optical, Electronic and Miniature Systems), Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Mathematical Sciences. The Partnership involves 750 researchers in engineering and mathematics at Heriot-Watt and Edinburgh Universities. In addition to developing a shared research strategy and pooled resources, the ERP has established a joint postgraduate school providing high quality courses and training.
