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Overview
The School of the Built Environment's ongoing commitment to high quality and innovative research has been recognised with a high ranking in the 2008 UK government Research Assessment Exercises (RAE). We have an evolving and well established portfolio of taught postgraduate programmes with students from around the world studying full-time, part-time and by distance learning.
The School is split into four disciplines:
- Architectural Engineering
- Civil & Structural Engineering
- Construction Management & Surveying
- Urban Studies
These disciplines offer a range of taught programmes as well as supporting research in a wide variety of areas and specialisms.
Our postgraduate students benefit from access to extensive laboratory and computing facilities. These include:
- acoustic reverberant, anechoic and sound transmission facilities
- thermal transmission facilities
- drainage network testing facilities
- building services laboratory
- materials testing facilities
- large wind tunnel and a rotating house used for wind and lighting studies
- a 12m by 12.4m wave basin with a depth of 3m (and a 5m deep pit)
- full-scale testing rigs for offshore pipelines
- well-equipped structures, soils and geomaterials laboratories
- laser measurement of fluid flow
- a well-equipped hydraulics laboratory with two sediment transport flumes
- corrosion monitoring facilities
- workstations for modelling large scale structural, geotechnical and hydrodynamic behaviour
- GIS computing laboratory
In addition we have excellent library facilities.
