Our students work with a range of industry-standard facilities across our civil engineering courses. From the studios to the workshops to the study centre, there is space and resource for everyone to work, learn and develop designs and projects.
Senior Lecturer Rob Evans take you through the key facilities you'll use on our Civil Engineering courses.
Specialist Facilities
Concrete Lab
You'll learn the importance of concrete testing during your studies. Our lab includes concrete batching and strength testing facilities for cubes, prisms and beams.
Structural Testing Labs
With access to a range of compression and tensile testing machines, up to 100 tonne capacity, you'll be able to undertake a wide range of testing programs.
Hydraulic / Fluids Lab
You'll spend time in this workshop, equipped with a range of modern desktop hydraulics rigs, open channel flumes and pump testing rigs, in tutorials and for individual and group project work.
Geotechnics / Soils Lab
Learn about the properties of soil and the ground upon which structures are built, by testing on a range of equipment. Software such as EcoSlope and Prokon are available to supplement the machinery.
Studios and workspaces
Surveying equipment store
Take the opportunity to use our wide range of surveying equipment such as total stations (reflector-less and robotic) GPS, and levels for class practical sessions and project work.
Software including Geosite, LSS and Topsurv is also available for survey data processing.
Workshop store
You'll have access to this space in your tutorials and for group and individual project work. The space is well-equipped with machinery and used by all students in the School.
Computer based software
You'll have access to a range of software to aid your project developments:
- Adobe Creative Suite Web Premium CS5 (including Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamworks, Acrobat Pro);
- Autodesk Productivity Suite (including AutoCAD, Revit, 3DS Max Design with VRay);
- Cinema 4D Artlantis, Rhino, Solidworks, Primavera, Vectorworks and Hevacomp; and
- Microsoft Office
Engineering at NTU
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