Open for testing in 2022, the National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF) was built by the University of Birmingham as part of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), a government-funded alliance of universities and industry tasked with advancing the sustainability and resilience of infrastructure and cities. The first of its kind, NBIF offers a controlled and repeatable laboratory setting to facilitate research, innovation, education, and training in the areas of buried infrastructure-ground interaction, soil stabilization and improvement, geophysical sensing, pipeline detection and assessment, tunneling and trenchless technologies, and more. It features a unique movable floor, comprising 50 actuators to simulate motion below the surface; static and dynamic actuators to simulate surface loading; state-of-the-art sensing technology; and advanced real-time modeling. Data gleaned from underground experiments at NBIF provide critical insight to those confronting the challenges of massive urban growth, including civil engineers, architects, construction firms, building material and component suppliers, as well as government policy makers, urban designers, and consultancy firms.

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