1. Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
  2. School of Civil Engineering
  3. Research and innovation
  4. Cities, Infrastructure and Energy
  5. Sustainable and resilient infrastructure

Sustainable and resilient infrastructure

Self repairing cities

Our research into sustainable and resilient infrastructure has established by collective of researchers and projects across the University of Leeds with common research interests in the links between infrastructure, resilience and sustainable energy and resource use.

Considering the central role infrastructure plays in enabling economic activity, providing societies basic wants and needs and mediating resource consumption, the research projects that have developed and are developing here are highly interdisciplinary and draw from a range of disciplines from chemistry to governance.

The link between the research in this diverse group is a desire to assist the development and management of our infrastructure systems to be truly sustainable and resilient for future generations.

PhD projects

We have opportunities for postgraduate researchers. Find out more.

Contact us

If you would like to discuss an area of research in more detail, please contact Professor Phil Purnell.