Sediment transportation, flow-structure interaction, coastal hydrodynamics and environmental flows.
Centre for Sustainable Environments
Working across three of the four University of Bradford Faculties, a dedicated team of specialists lead on interdisciplinary approaches that integrate technological, organisational and societal solutions to meet contemporary environmental challenges.
Research themes
These industry themes address directly the 21st century challenges facing the civil engineering profession – reducing waste and developing more sustainable construction materials:
Composite beams and concrete-filled steel tubes. Reuse of structural elements and materials.
Fibre-reinforced polymers as internal or external reinforcement for concrete structures.
Effect of noise from traffic on the levels of tranquillity in urban and rural environments and noise reducing barriers.
Facilities
We at the University of Bradford are proud of our track record for producing, exploiting and transferring useful knowledge and products to businesses and the community. Our team has an established record of accomplishment in providing support to the business and public sectors, as well as a long history of working in collaboration with a wide range of academic partners. We pride ourselves on our ability to turn 'ideas into action' and look forward to using our expertise to help you meet your future needs.
Heavy structures laboratory
Stakeholder engagement and partnership working
Our team has an established record of accomplishment in providing support to the business and public sectors, as well as a long history of working in collaboration with a wide range of academic partners. We pride ourselves on our ability to turn 'ideas into action' and look forward to using our expertise to help you meet your future needs.
The Centre's specialists in public and stakeholder engagement have a well-established record of accomplishment in facilitating dialogue and reconciling agendas between public institutions, such as local authorities, the private sector, and members of the public.
Our strength lies in the fact that we recognise that working in partnership can often achieve more than any organisation working in isolation.
Our experience has involved both researching the background to public / stakeholder engagement initiatives and post-hoc evaluation, so that future initiatives can be focused more effectively.
Find out more about our industy themes and see examples of our projects >>
Case studies
Current PhD projects
- Behaviour of Stainless Steel Composite Structures
- Effect of bed roughness on the spreading and dilution of gravity currents
- Environmental assessment of offshore wind energy devices
- Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Stay In Place (SIP) formwork for structural concrete elements
- Flow characteristics and sediment transport in vegetated compound channels
- Geopolymer reinforced concrete structural elements
- Innovative slim floor system for composite constructions
- Self Sensing reinforced concrete structural elements
- Structural Behaviour of Reusable Steel/Concrete Composite Floor Systems
View our current PhD projects (you can search for our research group).
Meet the team
Centre Director, Professor of Structural Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering
Head of Civil Engineering Discipline
Professor in Sustainable Built Environment
Lecturer in Structural Engineering
Professor of Environmental Acoustics
50th Anniversary Chair - Professor of Civil and Environmental
Professor of Coating & Polymer Processing
Professor of Computational Process Engineering & Head of School of Engineering
Bradford Centre for Sustainable Environments
University of Bradford
Richmond Road
Bradford
BD7 1DP
Professor Ashraf Ashour
Email: a.f.ashour@bradford.ac.uk
Telephone:+44 1274 233870