NBIF – University of Birmingham

Project Status – Complete
Client – Balfour Beatty Kilpatrick

M&D have been appointed by BBK to undertake the full mechanical pipework install on the NBIF project.
The National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF) is a ‘one of its kind’ facility for research, education and training in buried infrastructure-ground interaction, soil stabilization and improvement, geophysical sensing, pipeline detection and condition assessment, tunnelling and trenchless technologies, to name but a few.
The key feature of NBIF is its large pit (25m x 10m x 5m deep), which can be subdivided into smaller bays, with a 10 m x 5 m moveable floor section to simulate subsurface ground displacements. This enables research to be carried out at full-scale or near full-scale under fully-controlled conditions.