Our facilities

Our School is purpose-built, self-contained, and offers a pleasant and friendly environment for study, with central University facilities just a few minutes walk away.

You will have access to specialist facilities and laboratories that are equipped with the latest technology including:

• Public health laboratories with separate areas for solid waste, water and wastewater, a class II microbiology lab and clean room for molecular biology work including PCR techniques.
• Class II aerobiology chamber that can be used for room-scale bioaerosol experiments.
• In-house waste respirometers to measure process reaction rates.
• Bench-top testing facilities to look at the fundamental behaviour of materials and soils.
• Testing rigs for full-scale structures built of construction materials including recycled materials and composite materials.
• Research laboratories to investigate the behaviour of soil in various environments, advanced techniques to study the micro behaviour of cementitious materials, full-scale field monitoring of structures and building services.
• Advanced software and access to grid computing for analysing fluid flow.