In order to promote a tradition of rich research culture in civil engineering, the School has been channelling much of its energy and resources to developing state-of-the-art facilities and pursuing co-operative research projects with leading academic institutions and industries.

The School's research activities come under the undergraduate final year projects, the graduate studies by research and R & D activities by the academic and research staff and their collaboration with industry.

The diverse research interests of the staff in the school can be broadly classified into the following six major areas:

Within each of these areas, much of the R & D activities are directed towards projects which have industrial applications and which are relevant to Singapore and the region.

Although some of the important research works are carried out without any special funding, funded research projects accounts for most of the current research activities. In addition to the NTU applied research projects and industry-sponsored projects, the School has successfully obtained funding from the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Education as well as from the National Science and Technology Board (NSTB) in collaboration with local industrial partners.

Research Centres

In concordance with the School's objective to achieve academic and research excellence, and to bring together resources for intensive research, five research centres have been established. Their activities will focus not only on research and development but also on professional training and technology transfer.

• Centre for Infrastructure Systems
• NTU-NEA Environmental Engineering Research Centre
• NTU-MinDef Protective Technology Research Centre