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for research and learning
Within the School of Civil Engineering and Geosciences we work
hard to create and maintain the facilities that are required by
our staff and students for their research and learning: we believe
that excellent facilities make the research and learning easier,
more exciting and more fruitful.
The school is housed in two almost adjacent purpose designed buildings,
Cassie and Drummond, and has a share in Devonshire which is adjacent
to both. The Devonshire houses the Institutes for Research into
Environment and Sustainability and the Informatics Institute, CeG
making a significant contribution to both. The buildings are in
a prime position on the City Centre Campus. As well as our own
facilities described below, we are within 400m of the University
Library, several suites of teaching rooms, six university support
computer clusters, the open access language facility and much more.
With our buildings we have a suite of nine fully equipped teaching
rooms and a further five meeting rooms.
Within our buildings we have an exceptional range of laboratories and you can take a virtual tour of some of them below.
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 chemical
and biological laboratories
Civil Engineering and Geosciences have well equipped chemical
and biological laboratories with a wide range of analytical instrumentation
and equipment supporting research. |
 physical
and field laboratories
We have well equipped physical and field laboratories
with a wide range of measuring and testing apparatus supporting
research. |
 earth
systems laboratories
In addition to all these in-house laboratories we have a unique
suite of ‘Earth Systems Laboratories’, a series of
fully instrumented ‘life’ scale experimental facilities
based around the NE of England: major river catchment, infrastructure
embankment, renewable rural energy, sustainable farm, mine water
remediation, sustainable urban development area, geodetic monitoring,
instrumented transport corridor... |
 workshop
The engineering/technical workshops are equipped with lathes,
drilling and milling machines etc, which are used for the construction
of experimental facilities and equipment, the construction and
modification of analytical instrumentation, and general maintenance
and repairs.
vehicles
Fleet of 6 vehicles for on and off road use. |
 informatics
Our computing and software facilities are outstanding. What our
staff and students see are 500 computers and associated peripherals:
computers on the desk of all staff and postgraduate research students
plus five clusters for other students. All these computers are
additional to the six local clusters with more than 250 computers
supported by the university and mentioned above. What people do
not see is the server infrastructure behind these computers and
the software suite available to all. The server infrastructure
is such that all staff and students have fully backed up disk space
available not only on CeG computers but all university computers
and in fact networked computers worldwide! All these computers
are useless without the software applications. The suite is extensive
with software for graphics applications, mathematical modelling,
programming, general office tasks, and much more. All this software
can either by run within the university or outside through our
terminal server facility. |
 graphics
The graphics studio supports research with the production of presentation
and publicity material for conferences, artwork for publication, photography,
graphics and website design. |
 support
Our facilities need support. We have 18 specialist technicians
to service our experimental, analytical and computational facilities.
In addition we have a team of 14 administrative and clerical staff
to support all our school operations. |
other University research facilities
A full list of University Research Facilities available for commercial use can be found on the Services for Business web pages. |
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