Facilities
Prototype-scale, holistic experimentation for soil, foundation and superstructure interaction. GES hosts a portfolio of national-scale laboratories unmatched in the UK, open to academic and industrial partners alike.
“In an era increasingly dominated by artificial intelligence and machine learning, laboratory testing remains indispensable: algorithms can learn from data, but only experiments can reveal the true physical and mechanical behaviour of soils and structures.”
SoFSI — Soil-Foundation-Structure Interaction Laboratory
Langford Campus
SoFSI enables holistic testing of structures, foundations and surrounding ground, supporting pioneering research in structural dynamics, geotechnics, earthquake engineering, multi-hazard resilience, smart materials, structural health monitoring, and critical infrastructure.
EQUALS — Earthquake and Large Structures Laboratory
Queen's Building
Home to one of Europe’s most versatile six-degree-of-freedom earthquake simulators, EQUALS has supported three decades of pioneering research in seismic engineering, structural dynamics, earthquake resilience, and qualification testing.
Structures
Queen's Building
Advanced soil testing under realistic stress conditions, from small strains to large displacements and monotonic to cyclic loading, supporting soil characterisation, constitutive modelling, prototype-scale testing and geotechnical design.
Structures and materials
Queen's Building
Reconfigurable facilities for testing a wide range of structural forms, including full-scale road bridge fatigue testing, where servo-hydraulic actuators simulate traffic loading over millions of cycles to assess structural performance and durability.