土木工程材料领域的研究活动涵盖了多孔建筑材料的一般主题，对水泥系统特别感兴趣。在此职权范围内，研究包括材料对环境过程的响应，环境，材料特性与降解过程之间的相互作用，材料的在役性能，低体现能的建筑材料以及新型微观和宏观表征技术的发展研究多孔建筑材料，例如木材，石材，砖块，传统材料和饱和/不饱和土壤。研究包括数值研究和实验研究，后者包括微观检验，全面检验和现场研究。
Research activity within the Civil Engineering Materials field embraces the generic theme of porous construction materials with specific interest in cementitious systems. Within this remit, research includes material response to environmental processes, the interaction between environment, material properties and degradation processes, in-service performance of materials, low-embodied-energy construction materials, and the development of novel micro- and macro- characterisation techniques to study porous building materials such as timber, stone, brick, heritage materials and saturated/unsaturated soils. The research comprises both numerical and experimental studies, the latter including micro-scale examination, full-scale testing and field studies.