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Centre for Sustainable Environments

Working across three of the four University of Bradford Faculties, we are leading on interdisciplinary approaches that integrate technological, organisational and societal solutions to meet contemporary environmental challenges.

The Centre is home to a dedicated team of specialists, and champions four main themes:

  • Water engineering and natural environment
  • Steel-concrete composite structures and circular economy
  • Concrete and geotechnical engineering
  • Acoustic engineering and management

These industry themes address directly the 21st century challenges facing the civil engineering profession – reducing waste and developing more sustainable construction materials.

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9th International Conference on Steel and Aluminium Structures

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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).

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. 

Hydraulic physical scale modelling and instrument testing

Heavy structures laboratory

Acoustic monitoring, design and testing

Association for Steel-Concrete Composite Structures

The ASCCS promoted international cooperation in the development and applications in steel concrete composite structures and organises the annual ASCCS international conference bringing together expertise on research in structural steel and composite and hybrid structures all around the world to promote international cooperation.

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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 >>

Lego construction type of Green structural components for low-cost housing

This project is a collaboration with Hacettepe University and is funded under the Newton Fund Institutional Links scheme.

This project offers a real opportunity to collaborate on developing of truly sustainable infrastructures due to the unique capabilities available at the partner organisations. During this project will be designed novel construction materials (Turkish side) used for contemporary structural components (UK side) endevoring to achieve the necessary holistic design approach resulting in practical methods for sustainable construction.

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Efficient Recovery of Valuable Resources from Construction and Demolition Waste Towards Circular Economy in Construction Industry

This Newton Project aims at enhancing the quality of geopolymer concrete prepared from construction demolition waste (CDW) by capturing CO2 in CDW constituents using the cost-effective technique (accelerated carbonation).

 

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Construction and Demolition Waste-based “Green” Lego-like Structural Components (CodeLEGO)

This EU-funded CodeLEGO project will develop an environment-friendly solution for the development of a new material: a geopolymeric concrete mixture obtained from CDW, to produce large structural modules similar to Lego bricks snapped into place quickly and easily without wasting energy or creating waste. CodeLEGO will dramatically improve the environmental performance of treatment methods, maximise resource efficiency, reuse and recycling and reduce waste generation.

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Meet the team

Professor Dennis Lam
Centre Director, Chair in Structural Engineering

Professor Dennis Lam

Centre Director, Chair in Structural Engineering

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Email: D.Lam1@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 234052
Professor Ashraf Ashour
Professor of Structural Engineering

Professor Ashraf Ashour

Professor of Structural Engineering

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Email: A.F.Ashour@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1274233870
Dr Xianghe Dai
Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering

Dr Xianghe Dai

Senior Lecturer in Structural Engineering

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Email: X.Dai@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 234247
Dr Jaan H Pu
Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering

Dr Jaan H Pu

Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering

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Email: J.H.Pu1@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 234556
Dr Amir Khan
Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering

Dr Amir Khan

Lecturer in Civil and Structural Engineering

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Email: A.Khan117@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 234163
Dr Mostafa Mohamed
Head of Civil Engineering Discipline

Dr Mostafa Mohamed

Head of Civil Engineering Discipline

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Email: M.H.A.Mohamed@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 233856
Professor Crina Oltean-Dumbrava
Professor in Sustainable Built Environment

Professor Crina Oltean-Dumbrava

Professor in Sustainable Built Environment

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Email: M.C.A.Oltean-Dumbrava@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 233646
Dr Therese Sheehan
Lecturer in Structural Engineering

Dr Therese Sheehan

Lecturer in Structural Engineering

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Email: T.Sheehan@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 235779
Professor Gregory Watts
Professor of Environmental Acoustics

Professor Gregory Watts

Professor of Environmental Acoustics

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Email: G.R.Watts@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 233837
Professor Yakun Guo
50th Anniversary Chair - Professor of Civil and Environmental

Professor Yakun Guo

50th Anniversary Chair - Professor of Civil and Environmental

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Email: Y.Guo16@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 233689
Dr Davide Dapelo
Post doctoral research student.

Dr Davide Dapelo

Post doctoral research student.

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Email: D.Dapelo@bradford.ac.uk
Dr Jie Yang
Post -doctoral research fellow

Dr Jie Yang

Post -doctoral research fellow

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Dr Kan Zhou
Post -doctoral research fellow

Dr Kan Zhou

Post -doctoral research fellow

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Email: K.Zhou1@bradford.ac.uk
Professor Hadj Benkreira
Professor of Coating & Polymer Processing

Professor Hadj Benkreira

Professor of Coating & Polymer Processing

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Email: H.Benkreira@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 233721
Professor Iqbal Mujtaba
Professor of Computational Process Engineering & Head of School of Engineering

Professor Iqbal Mujtaba

Professor of Computational Process Engineering & Head of School of Engineering

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Email: I.M.Mujtaba@Bradford.ac.uk
Tel: 01274 233645

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Tel: +44(0) 1274234052

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