About us

Welcome to the iRI website. We’ve redesigned it to make key resources easier to find, explain our links with other research groups both here at Leeds and around the world, and to act as central point of contact between business, policy-makers and the Resilience research community.

The iRI investigates and explains how the physical infrastructure systems underpinning our way of life can be more resilient by responding and adapting to change. This change may be social; as society advances, we interact with infrastructure in different ways. Or, it may be technical; as our climate evolves, the physical environment in which infrastructure operates is changing rapidly. To address this, the iRI operates at the interfaces between disciplines from the Engineering, Environmental, Economic, Social and Political domains, to evaluate the whole life performance of infrastructure assets. However, the team investigates Resilience from a Civil Engineering viewpoint and includes academics from a broad range of technical disciplines. All our research involves industrial collaboration at every level.

The iRI is enabled through the unique, world-class combination of Engineering Science research with Management expertise embodied in the work of the Structures, Materials, Geotechnics, Engineering Management and Architectural Engineering research teams within the School of Civil Engineering at Leeds. We also have strong links to the Sustainability Research Institute, the Institute for Transport Studies and the Leeds University Business School via shared staff and scholarly activity. Many iRI staff also contribute to our sister institute, the Pathogen Control Engineering Institute (PaCE).