Groups, centres and sections

3DIMPact (3D Imaging, Photogrammetry and Metrology, Applied Coordinate Technologies) carries out a wide variety of scientific and applied research on high-quality imaging and modelling.

The Advanced & Innovative Materials Group promotes industry-driven, interdisciplinary research in material science and engineering in order to provide leading-edge, sustainable solutions.

The Behaviour & Infrastructure Group (BIG) aims to build a deeper understanding of urban systems and infrastructure networks using human behaviour as the central component of analysis.

The Centre for Resource Efficiency & the Environment aims to “engineer a world without waste”.

The Centre for Transport Studies is one of the world's leading multi-disciplinary transport centres and is an integral part of UCL's Transport Institute.

EfID is a new Centre which researches engineering solutions for human development and wellbeing, addressing Sustainable Development Goals using locally acceptable water-sanitation-energy approaches.

EPICentre, an interdisciplinary centre for natural hazards resilience, investigates risks from natural hazards to society, the built environment and the natural environment.

Our research includes hydrodynamics in inland, estuarine, coastal and offshore waters, transport and mixing in the environment, fluvial hydraulics and airflow and pollution in urban areas.

UCL Geomatics Section is involved in the science, engineering and modelling of measurements and data relating to Earth and its environment.

A complementary group with expertise in laboratory and field testing, constitutive modelling and numerical analysis, from micromechanical up to continuum approaches.

The Healthy Infrastructure Research Group studies how we can make our environment healthier and how to reduce the spread of infections.

The Industrial Ecology and Policy group investigates the role of public policy in managing the stocks and flows of materials and energy in society. 

ISI uses multidisciplinary approaches to investigate and recommend change to infrastructure systems with a a focus on resilience and sustainability.

ICEC-MCM seeks to provide national and global leadership in research to support the transition to a sustainable Circular Economy in the built environment.

PEARL (Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory) is a unique facility designed to explore the ways in which people interact with their environment.

Find out more about UCL CEGE's recent activities in the area of photogrammetry and 3D imaging.

The UCL Railway Research Group is part of UCL's Centre for Transport Studies, and includes a wide range of researchers with different backgrounds working on various railway related issues. 

SpaceTimeLab’s mission is to generate actionable insights from geo-located and time-stamped data for government, business and society.

UCL-squared - or the Universal Composition Laboratory at UCL - investigates and improves the multi-sensorial design of our environment in space and time, through collaborative and applied research.

CEGE accommodates two of UCL’s key Engineering-led infrastructure initiatives: the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities and the Person-Environment-Activity Research Laboratory.

The UCL Urban Ecohydrology Lab investigates the processes, scales and feedbacks linking the form and functioning of cities to their eco-hydro-climatic conditions.