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Priming Laboratory EXperiments on infrastructure and Urban Systems

Characterising the hydro-thermal potential of sustainable drainage systems.

Project leader

Prof CDF Rogers, University of Birmingham

PLEXUS will enable academics and industry stakeholders to co-produce and test the essential collaborative frameworks. These frameworks underpin the success of the UKCRIC enterprise.

This integrated view will help drive progress towards the more integrated and holistic sector mindset. This mindset must underpin transformative thinking and practice in infrastructure provision.

Three important and urgent technical challenges will contextualise the research:

  1. Intense physical interdependency of urban infrastructure systems. Each of which relies on ground support.
  2. Harvesting energy from buried infrastructure systems.
  3. Accelerated deterioration of infrastructure materials due to extreme loading.

The challenges are synergistic. Identified by industry as high added-value problems offering quick-win outcomes.