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:

  • 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.

Introducing the National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF)