About

Its activities cover a broad field, from the melting of snow and flooding of regions, via buildings, bridges and conduits, down to the material scale and the formation of cracks in concrete, and from thousand-year-old transport of pollutants in ground water to the rapid development of fire in buildings. 

The Department is responsible for most of the teaching for the programmes in Civil Engineering, Fire Protection Engineering and Risk Management, as well as several international Master's programmes.

Divisions

The department is organised in nine divisions:

• Building Materials
• Building Physics
• Building Services
• Construction Management
• Energy and Building Design
• Fire Safety Engineering
• Risk Management and Societal Safety
• Structural Engineering
• Water Resources Engineering