National Green Infrastructure Facility

Our latest video is now live on our #YouTube channel! Find out about our on-site facilities are how we are conducting research to enhance urban resilience and reduce urban hazards using green infrastructure. youtube.com/watch?v=Hw_cnx… @UniofNewcastle @newcastlehelix @UKCRIC

Join our facility for an exciting #PhDOpportunity ! Help tackle a critical science gap in #SuDS, exploring plant specification for rain gardens. This PhD project offers a unique chance to collaborate with @The_RHS and Robert Bray Associates: ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f…

Last week was a busy National Tree Week for Madeleine Tate — helping at our undergraduate open day, attending Floodex in London, and planting trees with the North East Community Forest. A great mix of teaching, learning, and getting more trees in the ground! 🌳

We recently hosted students from @NorthumbriaUni on a tour of our living lab and the Green Infrastructure on the @newcastlehelix site. The tour focused on the multifunctionality of Green Infrastructure and our PhD Student @LeavesinGI presented her research with edible herbs

We've had a busy semester of teaching at the Facility. BSc, BEng, MSc and MEng Students have been running infiltration tests to learn how substrate and vegetation influence permeability

Following on from the recent sensor update,🌳Madeleine Tate spoke at a TDAG session, sharing insights from her project so far. It was great to hear from all the speakers — a recording of the session is now available! youtube.com/watch?v=ui2F90…

As part of Madeleine Tate’s PhD project, sensors including a sap flow meter were installed at NGIF. Early data shows how the tree is performing in relation to water. More monitoring sites are coming — watch this space for updates! @EngineeringNCL

Fantastic, fully funded PhD opportunity with @hrwallingford to understand the retention and treatment of highway runoff pollutants within SuDS : ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/f… Generous, tax-free stipend to study. OPEN NOW for applications.

New PhD opportunities! 1. Understanding the retention and treatment of highway runoff pollutants in SuDS (shorturl.at/CIl1W) 2. Energy-SuDS: Heat exchange in SuDS for decarbonising heating and cooling  (shorturl.at/l2F7O) @GEST_NCL @EngineeringNCL

Read about our latest project, led by research student Madeleine Tate, on combatting excess storm water in residential areas using #SuDS Planters: blogs.ncl.ac.uk/sustainability…

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It was a pleasure to welcome ICE President Anusha Shah and colleagues to the NGIF. We discussed how to implement innovative #Nature-based Solutions and #SuDS in every-day engineering practice @anushashah1 @ICE_engineers #GreenInfrastructure #ICE_Manual_BGI

Our researchers had the opportunity to attend #AGU23 to present their latest work, and to convene a session on 'Advances in Geotechnical Infrastructure Condition Assessment and Monitoring in a Changing Climate'. We look forward to the online poster session on the 25th of January!

@NewcastleCC @NewcastleCC Absolutely, and that’s why features like the NGIF swale on Newcastle Helix are of such strategic importance and should be highly prized by developers, communities and local authorities alike! #WalkingTheWalk #SuDS #GreenInfrastructure

Many of you will remember the devastation caused by Thunder Thursday in 2012. A month’s worth of rain fell in just two hours causing millions of pounds worth of damage to homes, roads and businesses. We do not want this happen again.

Last week we hosted a tour from Newcastle’s School X 'Facing Up to Climate Change' MSc Module. Students saw how Green Infrastructure is at the front line in engineering our cities’ adaptation to climate change @GEST_NCL @EngineeringNCL #GreenInfrastructure #SuDS

Our team was delighted to contribute to a webinar introducing the National Green Infrastructure Facility this week. Thanks @UKCRIC for the opportunity to showcase our lab and research!

NGIF and @GEST_NCL PhD student, Emma McConnell, delivered a wonderful invited talk for the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ISSMGE) on field monitoring in Geomechanics. You can see her cracking work on #ACHILLES here: youtube.com/watch?v=j1pwdD…

It was a pleasure to welcome A-level offer holders to NGIF last week where they gained practical experience of infiltration testing as part of the @EngineeringNCL PARTNERS Scheme, giving students an introduction to Civil and Geospatial Engineering courses at Newcastle.

Happy International Women In Engineering Day from the National Green Infrastructure Facility! #IWED23

Happy #IWED23 from this woman in engineering and her trusty porometer! Women still make up only around 16% of the engineering workforce, I hope this figure continues to rise. Proud to be a woman engineer for @CDTWire and @NGIF_UK