RISE

Resilient Infrastructure,
Systems and Environment

In response to a changing world, we've evolved. Our group is now RISE – Resilient Infrastructure, Systems and Environment – a research and development (R&D) group dedicated to creating sustainable and resilient solutions for the built environment. Formerly known as the Civil Research Group, this new identity reflects our commitment to forward-thinking infrastructure and environmental challenges.

INTENT – Intelligent health monitoring of road infrastructures using bender elements embedded in pavements

INTENT is a R&D project to develop a new bender element for the continuous monitoring of the dynamic stiffness of unbound granular layers, and use it, along with conventional sensors and advanced numerical models, to fuel machine learning algorithms for continuous monitoring of pavements.

Climate Action

Climate change has been posed as one of the greatest threats to the comfort and health of our buildings and infrastructure.

In the context of the IABSE Congress Ghent 2025

Short Course | Structural Health Monitoring | Belgium

A 12-hour blended short course designed to pose the structural health monitoring (SHM) in the context of a statistical pattern recognition paradigm to support the damage identification process and risk-informed integrity management. This course is organized in the context (one day before) of the IABSE Congress Ghent, on August 26, 2025. Registration is already available here.

BIP - Blended Intensive Program

Summer Course on Structural Health Monitoring 2025 (3rd Edition)

5 ECTS | July 14-18, 2025, in person (30h) | 15h remotely | MSc and PhD Students