Civil engineers help to create and protect the world we live in. Driven by teaching and research excellence, we inspire and empower our students to engineer a better future. As one of the UK's top 4 research universities we attract excellent national and international researchers who all contribute to a thriving research environment. Were well known for our research in structural fire engineering, earthquake engineering, blast engineering, flood prediction and prevention and leakage management. Our growing expertise in resilient infrastructure, sustainable construction, energy, digital technologies, new materials, and managing risk and hazards, means were now at the forefront of tackling some of the most pressing issues of our time.