Infrastructure and Environment

We aim to deliver innovative transdisciplinary research across collaborative communities, enabling sustainability and resilience in response to demographic and climate change. Working on integrated, systems-based innovations and ensuring a range of transformative policy and practice impacts

News and Case Studies

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Solving the UK’s number one water quality complaint

On average, customers report over 90 per cent satisfaction with their water supplies. Yet drinking water discolouration is the number one cause of customer complaints. Understanding the root causes of discolouration will help us to improve the quality of our water distribution networks and revolutionise the industry.

Revolutionising industry procedures

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What happens when a bomb explodes?

Our Blast & Impact Engineering group are getting to the heart of what happens inside an explosion, in a new project aimed at improving the design of bomb protection systems.

The future of protection from explosions

Our research centres

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Integrated Civil and Infrastructure Research (ICAIR)

ICAIR is a national research facility that seeks to apply world leading research to the construction and infrastructure sectors, with the goal of delivering step changes in productivity and resilience.

Accelerating innovation

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An interdisciplinary water research centre, dedicated to continuing the University of Sheffield's highly collaborative and innovative approach to solving major challenges in the water sector.

Interdisciplinary water research

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UKCRIC - Urban Flows Observatories

The Urban Flows Observatory seeks to understand how the physical (energy and material resources) metabolism of cities can be effectively measured, understood and utilised.

Urban Flows Observatories