About National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF)

The National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF) is part of UKCRIC – the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities.

Exterior view of National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF) Based at the University of Birmingham, it is a ‘one of its kind’ facility for research, education and training in:nbif-annual-report-202-accessible

buried infrastructure-ground interaction,
soil stabilisation and improvement,
geophysical sensing,
pipeline detection and condition assessment,
tunnelling,
trenching & trenchless technologies,
structural performance of transport-ground-pipeline systems and green-grey infrastructure interdependencies.