Biological and Engineering Impacts of Climate Change on Slopes: Learning from full scale
Lead Research Organisation:
Loughborough University
Department Name: Civil and Building Engineering
Abstract
The focus of this collaboration is to link research groups who undertake full-scale monitoring of slopes through a range of people-based activities. These include: visits of UK researchers and academics to a number of field sites both in the UK and overseas; exchanges of young researchers between UK and overseas academic institutions; secondments of researchers to industry; a dissemination workshop and the establishment of a web portal for the storage and exchange of data and for the running of on-line meetings and seminars. Despite its main focus, the collaboration will necessarily provide links between members of the extended research teams with expertise in numerical simulation, constitutive modelling, soils testing and instrumentation. It is the intention that these activities will also be linked within the wider collaborative framework created by this funding.
Organisations
- Loughborough University, United Kingdom (Lead Research Organisation)
- Network Rail Ltd, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- Department for Transport, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- National University of Singapore, Singapore (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- CIRIA, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Geotechnical Observations (Collaboration)
- University of Saskatchewan, Canada (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Transport NI (Collaboration)
- Mott Macdonald UK Ltd, United Kingdom (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Durham University, United Kingdom (Collaboration)
- University of Manitoba, Canada (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- The Methodist Hospital, Houston (Collaboration)
- Road Service NI, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Network Rail Ltd (Project Partner)
- Highways Agency, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Technology Strategy Board, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- University of Minho, Portugal (Project Partner)
- Geotechnical Observations Ltd, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
- Spoornet Engineering Ltd., South Africa (Project Partner)
- Translink, United Kingdom (Project Partner)
People |
ORCID iD |
| Neil Dixon (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Dijkstra T
(2010)
Climate change and slope stability in the UK: challenges and approaches
in Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology
N Dixon
(2007)
Climate impact forecasting for slopes
| Description | This funding supported a group of UK researchers from five universities investigating the possible impacts of climate change on the types and frequency of landslides to visit leading research groups around the world. It facilitated numerous discussions on research needs, shared current research outputs, allowed test facilities and trial sites to be viewed and gave an opportunity for the researchers to present UK research at numerous meetings, workshops and lectures. |
| Exploitation Route | The presentations given during the international visits will ahve influenced numerous national research programmes on climet impacts on landslides. |
| Sectors | Environment,Transport |
| Description | The findings from this project informed the EPSRC iSMART project, which is a collaboration of all five universities that took part in the international visits and study programme. Through this project, multiple UK stakeholders are benefiting from the knowledge and understanding gained through the international networking. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2011 |
| Sector | Construction,Environment,Transport |
| Impact Types | Policy & public services |
| Description | CIRIA |
| Organisation | CIRIA |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Durham University |
| Organisation | Durham University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Geotechnical Observations Ltd |
| Organisation | Geotechnical Observations |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Highways Agency |
| Organisation | Department of Transport |
| Department | Highways Agency |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Organisation | Mott Macdonald UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | National University of Singapore |
| Organisation | National University of Singapore |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Network Rail Ltd |
| Organisation | Network Rail Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Road Service NI |
| Organisation | Transport NI |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | Translink |
| Organisation | The Methodist Hospital, Houston |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Hospitals |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | University of Manitoba |
| Organisation | University of Manitoba |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start Year | 2007 |
| Description | University of Saskatchewan |
| Organisation | University of Saskatchewan |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Start Year | 2007 |