Loughborough University has an international reputation for excellence in teaching and research, strong links with industry, and unrivalled sporting achievement.

Loughborough hosts some 12000 students and employs some 3000 employees. The University has been involved in over 100 European funded projects from which the annual income exceeds 6 Million Euros (€7.5 Million in 2005). The university is research-intensive. Its ethos from its earliest days has been to produce highly relevant research that solves real world problems to assist both business and industry, and improve people's quality of life. Nearly half of the University's income is for research, and its research partnerships and links with business and industry are the envy of other institutions.

All departments have a strong research base and contribute to an international reputation. The university has won an unbeaten 5 Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education, the latest of which was in 2005 for its world leading role in evaluating and helping to develop social policy related programmes

Recently published league tables place Loughborough among the top  6  universities in the UK, and in 2005-2006 full-time students voted Loughborough as the top favourite university in the new National Student Survey, ,confirming it as one of the country's leading higher education institutions.

Department of Civil and Building Engineering

Loughborough University has a strong reputation for being at the forefront of technological research and for maintaining extensive industrial links. In the Department of Civil and Building Engineering, which is one of the largest of its type in the U.K., our staff have considerable research and professional experience which ensures that our teaching is both up-to-date and relevant to the needs of the Construction and Transport industries.

The Department was awarded 22 out of 24 for teaching quality by the Government's Quality Assurance Agency in the last review. This excellent rating was the highest awarded at the time and is still among the best for Civil and Building Engineering in the country. The Department was also awarded the top grading of '5*' in the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise.

The European Union Research Group

The European Union Research Group within the Civil and Building Engineering Department is responsible for the work within this project.  The Group has been leading and participating in over 8 EU funded projects under the IST programme of FP4, FP5 and FP6.  This includes the eLEGAL project (IST-1999-20570), ICCI (IST-2001-33022), VOSTER (IST-32031), eHUBS (IST-2001-34031), ALIVE (IST-2000-25459), ROADCON (IST-2001-37278), LEGAL-IST (IST-2-004252-SSA) and SEEMseed (IST-1-502515-STP). A major Integrated Project under the NMP programme is due to start in October 2006 

Women-CORE Loughborough Team Members

Dr Tarek Hassan - is the Director of the European Research Group and a Senior Lecturer in Construction Management with main research focus on construction ICT 
Professor Andrew Dainty - is a Professor in Construction Sociology, specialising in Human Resources Management and Organisational Behaviour.
Abigail Powell - is a Research Associate.  Her main research interests are in gender and equal opportunities. 
Chris Carter - is the EU Research Project Manager in the Department, and will be providing administrative and management support to the Loughborough team.