Professor Chris Rogers Eur Ing, BSc, PhD, CEng, MICE, FCIHT, SFHEA

Professor Christopher Rogers

Department of Civil Engineering
Professor of Geotechnical Engineering

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c.d.f.rogers@bham.ac.uk
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School of Civil Engineering
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK
Birmingham Heroes: Professor Chris Rogers talks sustainable cities

Chris Rogers spent three years in the civil engineering industry, becoming a chartered engineer as a result of this practical experience, before returning to academia to research pipeline soil-structure interaction.  He lectured at Nottingham and Loughborough Universities before taking up his current position at the University of Birmingham in 1998.  His research portfolio is dominated by two primary, necessarily interrelated, themes of infrastructure engineering and future cities. 

Building on research into trenchless technology, buried pipes and road foundations, he led the Mapping and Assessing the Underworld research programmes.  These address the complex challenges of locating, mapping and remotely assessing the condition of subsurface pipelines and cables.  He researches robotics for streetworks (Self-Repairing Cities, employing surface-mounted and drone robots to assess the condition of and repair damaged road structures) and swarms of miniature robots to assess the condition of buried pipelines (Pipebots). 

In iBUILD, he worked with economists to explore infrastructure system interdependencies and alternative business models.  He is a founding member of the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities (UKCRIC), a multi-university initiative aiming to transform the UK's research supported by a capital grant of £138m from BEIS, and serves as UKCRIC's Director of Research Integration.  He is Director of the new £28m UKCRIC National Buried Infrastructure Facility. 

His 20-year programme of research into future cities has focussed on sustainability, resilience, liveability and (true) smartness, and has resulted in a suite of methodologies to support a new Theory of Change for infrastructure and urban systems.  For example, he led the multi-disciplinary Urban Futures consortium yielding a methodology to test the resilience of a city system intervention using extreme-yet-plausible future scenarios, and led the Liveable Cities programme grant exploring the performance of future cities in relation to individual & societal and planetary wellbeing. 

He is researching novel approaches for the design of cities to improve people's health and wellbeing, embracing urban diagnostics, systems thinking and practice, urban observatories for real-time trials of interventions, city governance and the move towards transdisciplinarity.  He chaired the ICE’s Research, Development & Innovation Panel from 2010-2020 and was a member of the Lead Expert Group of the UK Government Foresight Future of Cities project.

Qualifications

  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)
  • Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation (FCIHT)
  • Member of FEANI (Fédération Européenne d'Associations Nationales d'Ingénieurs / European Federation of National Engineering Associations (Eur Ing)
  • Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers (MICE)
  • Chartered Engineer (CEng) 
  • PhD in Geotechnical Engineering, University of Nottingham 
  • BSc (Hons) in Civil Engineering, University of Leeds 

Biography

Chris Rogers graduated in Civil Engineering at Leeds University in 1979 prior to gaining industrial experience as a graduate engineer in a structural engineering consultancy, as a resident engineer monitoring ground works on four sites, and as a site engineer with Mowlem Tunnelling working on the Carsington Dam Aqueduct Tunnel. It was on the basis of this industrial experience that he gained chartered status.

He joined the University of Nottingham as a Research Assistant in 1982, where he read for his doctorate in the field of buried flexible pipes.  He subsequently lectured at Nottingham, and then Loughborough University, before taking up his current position at the University of Birmingham in 1998.

Teaching

Professor Rogers’ primary teaching interests are in the application of sustainability and resilience principles to the engineering design of infrastructure and urban systems (MSc and MEng), along with consolidation, shear strength and critical state soil mechanics (MSc and MEng).

Research

Research Interests

The move towards sustainability and resilience in utility service provision, underground space usage, geotechnical processes and urban engineering.  He led one of fifteen consortia funded under the first round of grants awarded under the EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environments (SUE) Programme to use the major Birmingham Eastside (2004-08) redevelopment initiative as a series of case study sites to explore the challenges of introducing more sustainable solutions to the social, environmental and economic problems faced by such developments.  He subsequently led a cross-disciplinary programme researching the resilience of critical local infrastructure, and the Urban Futures (2008-12) SUE 2 consortium, which characterised four alternative extreme-yet-plausible future scenarios and developed a methodology for testing the resilience of engineering interventions put in place today.  Since many of these interventions are both advanced in the name of sustainability and have very long design lives, the methodology crucially highlights potentially vulnerability to contextual change. Much of the geotechnical input to these projects has concerned the exploitation of underground space beneath our cities.

Cities and Infrastructure Systems Fit for the Far Future.  Building on Urban Futures, Professor Rogers led the £6.3 million EPSRC-funded Programme Grant Liveable Cities – Transforming the Engineering of Cities to Deliver Societal and Planetary Wellbeing (2012-17). This multi-university grant explored urban metabolisms and how to assess the performance of cities, both now and with radical engineering interventions in place.  He was a Deputy Director of the £3.5 million iBUILD centre researching infrastructure interdependencies and novel business models at the local and regional scales (2103-17) and Deputy Director of Urban Living Birmingham researching urban diagnostics (2016-18). He leads a new programme on engineering cities to deliver enhanced health and wellbeing (REPLENISH – REimagining PLaces and ENgineered Infrastructure Systems for Health).

Transformational Buried Infrastructure.  Professor Rogers has been in the vanguard of the creation of UKCRIC – the UK Collaboratorium for Research on Infrastructure and Cities. He is Director of the UKCRIC National Buried Infrastructure Facility (NBIF), a £27.6m building housing state-of-the-art laboratories, a 25mx10mx5m test pit, offices and a visualisation suite.  NBIF is one of a number of UKCRIC infrastructure laboratories representing a unique cluster of UK centres of excellence able to support a ‘next generational approach’ to the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the complex and interdependent infrastructure systems needed to support civilised life in dynamic ever more rapidly-changing dynamic contexts.  For example, his research portfolio includes the development of surface-mounted and drone robotics for crack detection and repair of roads – addressing the UK’s perennial potholes challenge – via Self-Repairing Cities (a £4.2m EPSRC Grand challenge, 2016-21).  With a similarly radical vision, he is Deputy Principal Investigator of Pipebots (Pervasive Sensing for Buried Pipes, a £7.3m EPSRC Programme Grant, 2019-24), which is researching swarms of miniature robots to assess the condition of water pipelines and sewers.  He leads research to demonstrate the combined potential of UKCRIC’s laboratories, notably via PLEXUS (Priming Laboratory Experiments on Infrastructure and Urban Systems, £1.0m, 2017-21).

Transforming the Engineering of Cities.  Professor Rogers is taking forwards his cities research portfolio via a second strand of UKCRIC – UKCRIC’s Urban Observatories (£8.0m, 2019-21), and in particular via UKCRIC’s Birmingham Urban Observatory and a pump-priming programme linking all six observatories (CORONA – City Observatory Research platfOrm for iNnovation and Analytics, £1.0m, 2017-20).  He is helping UKCRIC to deliver its bold ambitions as UKCRIC’s Director of Research Integration, serving on UKCRIC’s Coordination Node (£3.8m, 2017-22) and leading the development of UKCRIC’s Theory of Change, combining many of the methodologies that he has been developing over the past 20 years.  His research includes techniques to assist the movement towards transdisciplinarity, supported by a grant from Research England for training of Post-Doctoral Researchers and Early Career Researchers (C-DICE – Centre for Postdoc Development in Infrastructure, Cities and Energy, £4.0m, 2021-25).

He served as a member of the Lead Expert Group UK Government Foresight Future of Cities project (2013-2015), he led the University of Birmingham Policy Commission on Future Urban Living (2012-2014) and was Chair of the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Research, Development & Innovation Panel (2010-2020).  He has been awarded grants worth more than £50 million, supervised more than 50 Research Students and Assistants and has published > 150 refereed journal papers and > 180 conference papers.

The structural performance of flexible pipes when buried in trenches, under embankments and in landfills. The influence of trenching on the surrounding buried infrastructures and overlying road structures forms a parallel area of interest.

Trenchless Technologies.  Professor Rogers led an EPSRC Engineering Programme Network in Trenchless Technology (NETTWORK, 2000-04), which spawned a number of initiatives including research into long-distance, shallow-buried HV cable installation and the EPSRC-funded Mapping the Underworld programme (MTU, £4.5m, 2004-12, www.mappingtheunderworld.ac.uk). This research combined buried utility location, mapping, data integration and asset tagging, and developed into a multi-sensor geophysical approach for the detection and mapping of all buried utility services.  This research took on a new focus via the £5.8 million EPSRC-funded Assessing the Underworld programme (2013-17) to research the use of shallow-surface geophysics to assess the condition of road structures, buried pipelines and cables, and the ground that supports them both.  He was CI of complementary research exploring the application of cold atom interferometry to the creation of a very sensitive gravity gradiometer for both shallow and deep subsurface sensing (GG-TOP, £2.4 million, 2011-15) and has a parallel interest in soft ground tunnelling.

Chemical Stabilisation of Clay Soils.  His past research has covered both surface and deep stabilisation techniques, the latter including lime piles and chemical piles, deep mix-in-place techniques and lime slurry pressure injection.  More recent research concentrated on the use of electro-kinetics for soil stabilisation, dewatering liquid wastes and accelerating cast iron pipe corrosion in clay soils.

Road and railway foundations.  His past research has included the assessment in situ of stiffness and resistance to permanent deformation, and the chemical treatment of road subgrades and railway trackbeds.  In particular he has studied lime- and lime-cement stabilized subgrade soils cured under realistic environmental conditions.

Collapsible Coils, notably Loess.  Loess from different countries, including China, Libya and the UK (where it is more commonly known as brickearth), has been studied to determine both the degree of collapse and the mechanisms of collapse when it is loaded and wetted.  The constituents of the loess and the bonding mechanisms formed the primary focus of the research. 

Other activities

External Appointments

  • Honorary Editor of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology (2013–present)
  • Editor of Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, with responsibility for Trenchless Technology Research, published by Elsevier (2002–2013)
  • Editor-in-Chief of Trenchless Technology Research, published by Elsevier (1996–2002)
  • Honorary Editor of Engineering Sustainability (2007–2011) and Member of Editorial Board of Engineering Sustainability (2005–2012)
  • Member of Geotechnique Advisory Panel (2006–2010)
  • Member of Committee on Cementitious Stabilisation of Soil (AFS80), US Transportation Research Board (since 1987, with breaks for committee rotation)
  • Member of Committee on Sub-Surface Soil Structure Interaction (AFS40), US Transportation Research Board (since 1997, with breaks for committee rotation)
  • Member of Committee on Culverts and Hydraulic Structures (AFF70), US Transportation Research Board (since 1997, with breaks for committee rotation)
  • Member of Committee on Physicochemical Phenomena in Soils (AFP60), US Transportation Research Board (since 2003, with breaks for committee rotation)
  • Member of EPSRC’s Strategic Advisory Team for Engineering (2004–2008)
  • Elected Member of Engineering College, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (continuous since 1994)
  • Co-Chair of Fourth International Trenchless Technology Research Colloquium (19-23 May 2002)
  • Co-Chair, International Conference on Industrial Symbiosis, organised jointly with Yale University (5-6 August 2006)
  • Co-Chair, 12th International Conference on Ground Probing Radar: GPR2008 (15-19 June 2008) hosted at the University of Birmingham
  • External examiner for PhD theses at Lund University, Sweden; INSA de Lyons, France; Queen’s University, Canada; University College, Dublin; RMIT University, Australia; and several UK universities
  • Academic Lead, University of Birmingham Policy Commission on Future Urban Living
  • Chair, Institution of Civil Engineers’  Research, Development & Innovation Panel (2010–2020), member of Panel (2020–present)
  • Member, Institution of Civil Engineers’ Learned Society Committee (2010–2020)

Publications

Cavada M, Bouch CJ, Rogers CDF, Grace M & Robertson A (2021). A Soft Systems Methodology for Business Creation: The Lost World at Tyseley, Birmingham, UK. Urban Planning, 6 (1), 32-48. doi:10.17645/up.v6i1.3499.

Topal HF, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2021). Exploring Urban Sustainability Understanding and Behavior: A Systematic Review towards a Conceptual Framework. Sustainability, 13 (3), Paper 1139, 33pp. doi:10.3390/su13031139.

Bartle I, Bouch CJ, Baker CJ & Rogers CDF (2020). End-user Innovation of Urban Infrastructure: Key Factors in the Direction of Development. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Municipal Engineer, 173 (2), 69-77. Doi:10.1680/jmuen.18.00008.

Cavada M & Rogers CDF (2020). Smart Cities at Play: Serious Gaming as an Enabler of Truly Smart Cities. Behaviour and Information Technology, 39 (6), 695-710. doi:10.1080/0144929X.2019.1677775.

Chapman DN, Providakis S & Rogers CDF (2020). BIM for the Underground – An Enabler of Trenchless Construction. Underground Space, 5 (4), 354-361. doi:10.1016/j.undsp.2019.08.001.

Goodfellow-Smith MA, Rogers CDF & Tight MR (2020a). Infrastructure Value Maximisation: Finance and Insurance Appraisal. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Infrastructure Asset Management, 7 (2), 95-102. doi:10.1680/jinam.18.00007.

Goodfellow-Smith MA, Rogers CDF & Tight MR (2020b). Infrastructure Value Maximisation: Overcoming the Valley of Death for Sustainable Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Infrastructure Asset Management, 7 (2), 103-110. doi:10.1680/jinam.19.00056.

Kalyviotis, N, Rogers CDF, Tight MR, Hewings JD & Doloi H (2020). Defining the Social Value of Transport Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Infrastructure Asset Management, 7 (2), 111-119. doi:10.1680/jinam.18.0005.

Leach JM, Rogers CDF, Ortegon-Sanchez A & Tyler N (2020). The Liveable Cities Method: Establishing the Case for Transformative Change. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 173 (1), 8-19. doi:10.1680/jensu.18.00028

Makana LO, Metje N, Jefferson I, Sackey M & Rogers CDF (2020). Cost Estimation of Utility Strikes: Towards Proactive Management of Street Works. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Infrastructure Asset Management, 7 (2), 64-76. doi:10.1680/jinam.17.00033.

Metje N, Hojjati A, Beck A & Rogers CDF (2020). Improved Underground Utilities Asset Management – Assessing the Impact of PAS128 in Practice. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Municipal Engineer, 173 (4), 218-236. doi:10.1680/jmuen.18.00055.

Moghareh Abed T, Torbaghan ME, Hojjati A, Chapman DN & Rogers CDF (2020). An Experimental Investigation into the Effects of Cast Iron Pipe Corrosion on GPR Detection Performance in Clay Soils. ASCE Journal of Pipeline Systems – Engineering and Practice, 11 (4), Paper 04020040, 15pp. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)PS.1949-1204.0000491.

Palafox-Alcantar PG, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2020). The Complementary use of Game Theory for the Circular Economy: A Review of Waste Management Decision-Making Methods in Civil Engineering. Waste Management, 102, 598-612. doi:10.1016/j.wasman.2019.11.014.

Palafox-Alcantar PG, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2020). A Stakeholder Cooperation Approach to Encourage Circular Economy in Cities Waste Management. Energies, 13, Paper 1845, 30pp. doi:10.3390/en13071845.

Providakis S, Rogers CDF & Chapman DN (2020). Assessing the Economic Risk of Building Damage due to the Tunneling-Induced Settlement Using Monte Carlo Simulations and BIM. Sustainability, 12 (23), Paper 10034, 19pp. doi:10.3390/su122310034.

Torbaghan ME, Li W, Burrow M, Chapman DN, Metje N & Rogers CDF (2020). Automated Detection of Cracks in Roads using Ground Penetrating Radar. Journal of Applied Geophysics, 179, 104-118. doi:10.1016/j.jappgeo.2020.104118.

Torbaghan ME, Curioni G, Hayati F, Royal ACD, Chapman DN, Atkins PA & Rogers CDF (2020). An Investigation into the relationship between Trenching Practice and Road Deterioration through a Field Trial. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Infrastructure Asset Management, 7 (4), 282-296. doi:10.1680/jinam.19.00052.

Torbaghan ME, Kaddouh B, Abdellatif M, Metje N, Liu J, Jackson R, Rogers CDF, Chapman DN, Fuentes R, Miodownik M, Richardson R & Purnell P (2019). Application of Robotic and Autonomous Systems for Road Defect Detection and Repair – A Position Paper on Future Road Asset Management. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 172 (2), 83-93. doi:10.1680/jinam.19.00052.

van Soest D, Tight MR & Rogers CDF (2020). Exploring the Distances People Walk to Access Public Transport. Transport Reviews, 40, (2), 160-182. doi:10.1080/01441647.2019.1575491.

Leach JM, Mulhall R, Rogers CDF & Bryson JR (2019). Reading Cities: Developing an Urban Diagnostics Approach for Identifying Integrated Urban Problems with Application to the City of Birmingham, UK. Cities, 86, 136-144. doi:10.1016/j.cities.2018.09.012.

Providakis S, Rogers CDF & Chapman DN (2019). Predictions of settlement risk induced by tunnelling using BIM and 3D visualization tools. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 92, Paper 103049. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2019.103049.

Rogers CDF & Hunt DVL (2019). Realising Visions for Future Cities: An Aspirational Futures Methodology. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 172 (4), 125-140. doi:10.1680/jurdp.18.00010.

van Soest D, Tight MR & Rogers CDF (2019). Exploring Transport Perceptions Across Urban Areas using Free Associations. Transportation Research Part F: Psychology and Behaviour, 65, 316-333. doi:10.1016/j.trf.2019.08.005.

Bouch CJ, Rogers CDF, Powell M & Horsfall D (2018). Developing Alternative Business Models for Smart Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Smart Infrastructure and Construction, 171 (2), 77-87. doi:10.1680/jsmic.18.00003.

Bryson JR, Mulhall RA, Song M, Loo BPY, Dawson RJ and Rogers CDF (2018). Alternative-Substitute Business Models and the Provision of Local Infrastructure: Alterity as a Solution to Financialization and Public-Sector Failure. Geoforum, 95, 25-34. doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.06.022.

De Laurentiis V, Hunt DVL, Lee SE & Rogers CDF (2018). EATS: A Life Cycle-Based Decision Support Tool for Local Authorities And School Caterers. International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, 24 (7), 1222–1238. doi:10.1007/s11367-018-1460-x.

Goodfellow-Smith MA, Rogers CDF & Tight MR (2018). Sustainable Cities in the Anthropocene? City System Transformation will be needed. System Change: the Anthropocene, 1 (2), 25pp.

Hojjati A, Jefferson I, Metje N & Rogers CDF (2018). Sustainability Assessment for Urban Underground Utility Infrastructure Streetworks. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 171 (2), 68–80. doi:10.1680/jensu.16.00050.

Kalyviotis N, Rogers CDF, Tight MR, Hewings GJD & Doloi H (2018). Infrastructure Management: Development of a Business Model for Transport Infrastructure Interdependencies Management. International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, 1, 234-252.

Kalyviotis N, Rogers CDF, Tight MR, Hewings GJD & Doloi H (2018). The Environmental Value of Sustainable Transport Infrastructure. International Journal of Real Estate & Land Planning, 1, 42-57.

Pollastri S, Dunn N, Cooper RFD, Boyko CT, Tyler N & Rogers CDF (2018). Envisioning Urban Futures as Conversations to Inform Design and Research. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 171 (4), 146-156. doi:10.1680/jurdp.18.00006.

Rogers CDF (2018). Engineering Future Liveable, Resilient, Sustainable Cities Using Foresight. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil Engineering, 171 (6), 3-9. doi:10.1680/jcien.17.00031.

Zargarian R, Hunt DVL, Braithwaite P, Bobylev N & Rogers CDF (2018). A New Sustainability Framework for Urban Underground Space. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 171 (5), 238-253. doi:10.1680/jensu.15.00013.

Boyko CT, Clune S, Cooper RDF, Coulton CJ, Dunn NS, Pollastri S, Leach JM, Bouch CJ, Cavada M, De Laurentiis V, Goodfellow-Smith M, Hale JD, Hunt DVL, Lee SE, Locret-Collet M, Sadler JP, Ward J, Rogers CDF, Popan, C, Psarikidou K, Urry J, Blunden LS, Bourikas L, Buchs M, Falkingham J, Harper M, James PAB, Kamanda M, Sanches T, Turner P, Wu PY, Bahaj AS, Ortegon A, Barnes K, Cosgrave E, Honeybone P, Joffe H, Kwami C, Zeeb V, Collins B & Tyler N (2017). How Sharing Can Contribute to More Sustainable Cities. Sustainability, 9 (5), Paper 701, 16pp. doi:10.3390/su9050701.

Hojjati A, Jefferson I, Metje N & Rogers CDF (2017). Embedding Sustainability Criteria into Pre-Appraisal of Underground Utility for Future Cities. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 170 (6), 258-271. doi: 10.1680/jurdp.17.00023.

Leach JM, Lee SE, Boyko CT, Coulton CJ, Cooper R, Smith N, Joffe H, Büchs M, Hale JD, Sadler JP, Braithwaite PA, Blunden LS, DeLaurentiis V, Hunt DVL, Bahaj AS, Barnes K, Bouch CJ, Bourikas L, Cavada M, Chilvers A, Clune SJ, Collins B, Cosgrave E, Dunn N, Falkingham J, James P, Kwami C, Locret-Collet M, Medda F, Ortegon A, Pollastri S, Popan C, Psarikidou K, Tyler N, Urry J, Wu Y, Zeeb V, Rogers CDF (2017). Dataset of the livability performance of the city of Birmingham, UK, as measured by its citizen wellbeing, resource security, resource efficiency and carbon emissions. Data in Brief. 15, 691-695. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.004.

Leach JM, Lee SE, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2017). Improving city-scale measures of livable sustainability: A study of urban measurement and assessment through application to the city of Birmingham, UK. Cities, 71, 80-87. doi: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.06.016.

Rogers CDF (2017). The Value of Foresight and Scenarios in Engineering Liveable Future Cities. Chapter in Retrofitting Cities for Tomorrow's World, Wiley Blackwell, Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 139-152. ISBN: 978-1-119-00721-0.

Cavada M, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2016). Do Smart Cities Realise Their Potential for Lower CO2 Emissions? Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 169 (6), 243-252. doi:10.1680/jensu.15.00032.

Clarke BG, Middleton CR & Rogers CDF (2016). The Future of Geotechnical and Structural Engineering Research. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Civil Engineering, 169 (1), 41-48. doi: 10.1680/jcien.15.00029.

De Laurentiis V, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2016). Overcoming Food Security Challenges within an Energy/Water/Food Nexus (EWFN) Approach. Sustainability, 8 (1), Paper 95, 23 pp. doi:10.3390/su8010095.

Hunt DVL, Makana LO, Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2016). Liveable Cities and Urban Underground Space. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 55, 8-20. doi: 10.1016/j.tust.2015.11.015.

Leach JM, Braithwaite PA, Lee SE, Bouch CJ, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2016). Measuring Urban Sustainability and Liveability Performance: the City Analysis Methodology (CAM).  International Journal of Complexity in Applied Science and Technology (IJCAST), 1 (1), 86-106. doi:10.1504/IJCAST.2016.081296.

Lee SE, Braithwaite P, Leach JM & Rogers CDF (2016). A Comparison of Energy Systems in Birmingham, UK, with Masdar City, an Embryonic City in Abu Dhabi Emirate. Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews, 65, 1299–1309. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2016.07.019.

Lee SE, Quinn AD & Rogers CDF (2016). Advancing City Sustainability via its Systems of Flows: The Urban Metabolism of Birmingham and its Hinterland. Sustainability, 8, (3), Paper 220, 24 pp. doi:10.3390/su8030220.

Makana LO, Hunt DVL, Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2016). Assessment of the Future Resilience of Sustainable Urban Sub-Surface Environments. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 55, 21-31. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2015.11.016.

Dou Q, Wei L, Magee DR, Atkins PR, Chapman DN, Curioni G, Goddard KF, Jenks H, Metje N, Muggleton JM, Pennock SR, Swingler SG, Rogers CDF and Cohn AG (2016). 3D Buried Utility Location Using A Marching-Cross-Section Algorithm for Multi-sensor Data Fusion. Sensors, 16, (11), Paper 1827. doi:10.3390/s16111827.

Hale JD, Pugh TAM, Sadler JP, Boyko CT, Brown J, Caputo S, Caserio M, Coles R, Farmani R, Hales C, Horsey R, Hunt DVL, Leach JM, Rogers CDF & MacKenzie RA (2015). Delivering a Multi-Functional and Resilient Urban Forest. Sustainability, 7 (4), 4600-4624. doi:10.3390/su7044600.

Leach JM, Boyko CT, Cooper RFD, Woodeson A, Eyre J & Rogers CDF (2015). Do Sustainability Measures Constrain Urban Design Creativity? Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 168 (1), 30-41. doi: 10.1680/udap.13.00034. Awarded the Reed Mallik Prize for the best paper on Urban Design in the ICE Proceedings in 2015.

Milodowski AE, Northmore KJ, Kemp SJ, Entwisle DC, Gunn DA, Jackson PD, Boardman DI, Zourmpakis A, Rogers CDF, Dixon N, Jefferson I, Smalley IJ & Clarke M (2015). The Mineralogy and Fabric of ‘Brickearths’ and their Relationship to Engineering Properties. Bulletin of Engineering Geology and the Environment, 74 (4), 1187-1121. doi:10.1007/s10064-014-0694-5.

Muggleton JM, Brennan MJ & Rogers CDF (2014). Point Vibration Measurements for the Detection of Shallow-Buried Pipes. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 39, 27-33. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2012.02.006.

Rachwal A, Wharfe J, Bricker S, Sharp E, Leeks G, Culshaw F, Roberts T, Rogers CDF, Butler D, Acreman M & Shouler M (2014). Future Visions for Water and Cities: a thought piece. Foresight Future of Cities Project. 17pp. www.assets.publishing.service.gov.uk

Rogers CDF, Shipley J, Blythe P, Braithwaite PA, Brown C, Collins BS, Juned S, MacKenzie RA, Miller R, Pawlyn M, Price J, Swain C, Tight MR, Tindale S, Toyne P & Leach JM (2014). Future Urban Living – A Policy Commission Investigating the Most Appropriate Means for Accommodating Changing Populations and Their Needs in the Cities of the Future. University of Birmingham, UK, 60 pp. ISBN: 978-0-7044-2843-0.

Zadeh SM, Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR & Rogers CDF (2014). Carbon Costing For Mixed-Use Greywater Recycling Systems. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Water Management, 167 (8), 467-481. doi: 10.1680/wama.12.00093.

Zadeh SM, Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2014). Socio-Technological Influences on Water Demands. Water, 6 (7), 1961-1984. doi:10.3390/w6071961.

Bobylev N, Hunt DVL, Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2013). Sustainable Infrastructure for Resilient Urban Environments. In: Advances in Underground Space Development – Zhou, Cai & Sterling (eds), The Society for Rock Mechanics & Engineering Geology (Singapore). Published by Research Publishing, 906-917.

Hale JD, Davies G, Fairbrass AJ, Matthews TJ, Rogers CDF & Sadler JP (2013). Mapping Lightscapes: Spatial Patterning of Artificial Lighting in an Urban Landscape. PLOS ONE, 8 (5):e61460. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0061460.

Hunt DVL, Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2013). Scenarios Analysis Through a Futures Performance Framework. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers –Engineering Sustainability, 166 (5), 258-271. doi:10.1680/ensu.12.00040.

Zadeh SM, Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR & Rogers CDF (2013). Shared Urban Greywater Recycling Systems: Water Resource Savings and Economic Investment. Sustainability, 5 (7), 2887-2912. doi:10.3390/su5072887.

Boyko CT, Gaterell MR, Barber ARG, Brown J, Butler D, Caputo S, Caserio M, Coles R, Cooper RFD, Davies G, Farmani R, Hale J, Hales AC, Hewitt CN, Hunt DVL, Jankovic L, Jefferson I, Leach JM, Lombardi DR, MacKenzie AR, Memon FA, Pugh TAM, Sadler JP, Weingaertner C, Whyatt JD & Rogers CDF (2012). Benchmarking Sustainability in Cities: The Role of Indicators and Future Scenarios. Global Environmental Change, 22 (1), 245-254. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.10.004.

Farmani R, Butler D, Hunt DVL, Memon F, Abdelmeguid H, Ward S & Rogers CDF (2012). Scenario Based Sustainable Water Management for Urban Regeneration. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineer – Engineering Sustainability, 165 (1), 89-98. doi:10.1680/ensu.2012.165.1.89.

Hayes R, Metje N, Chapman DN & Rogers CDF (2012). Sustainability Assessment of Streetworks. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Municipal Engineer, 165 (4), 193-204. doi:10.1680/muen.12.00004.

Hao T, Rogers CDF, Metje N, Chapman DN, Muggleton JM, Foo KY, Wang P, Pennock SR, Atkins PR, Swingler SG, Parker J, Costello SB, Burrow MPN, Anspach JH, Armitage RJ, Cohn AG, Goddard K, Lewin PL, Orlando G, Redfern MA, Royal ACD & Saul AJ (2012). Condition Assessment of the Buried Utility Service Infrastructure. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 28, 331-344. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2011.10.011.

Hunt DVL, Lombardi  DR, Farmani R, Jefferson I, Memon FA, Butler D & Rogers CDF (2012). Urban Futures and The Code for Sustainable Homes. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineer – Engineering Sustainability, 165 (1), 37-58. doi:10.1680/ensu.2012.165.1.37.

Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR, Jefferson I, Rogers CDF, Butler D & Memon FA (2012). Sustainable Infrastructure Planning for New Towns in Ireland. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 165 (2), 103-121. doi:10.1680/udap.9.00019.

Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR, Atkinson S, Barber ARG, Barnes M, Boyko CT, Brown J, Bryson JR, Butler D, Caputo S, Caserio M, Coles R, Cooper RFD, Farmani R, Gaterell MR, Hale JD, Hales C, Hewitt CN, Jankovic L, Jefferson I, Leach JM, MacKenzie AR, Memon FA, Pugh TAM, Sadler JP, Weingaertner C, Whyatt D & Rogers CDF (2012). Scenario Archetypes: Converging rather than Diverging Themes. Sustainability, 4 (4), 740-772. doi:10.3390/su4040740.

Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR, Atkinson S, Barber ARG, Barnes M, Boyko CT, Brown J, Bryson JR, Butler D, Caputo S, Caserio M, Coles R, Cooper RFD, Farmani R, Gaterell MR, Hale JD, Hales C, Hewitt CN, Jankovic L, Jefferson I, Leach JM, MacKenzie AR, Memon F, Pugh TAM, Rogers CDF, Sadler JP, Weingaertner C & Whyatt JD (2012). Using Scenarios to Explore Urban UK Futures: A Review of Futures Literature from 1997 to 2011. Monograph published by IHS BRE Press, Bracknell, UK (issued on CD with Designing Resilient Cities: a Guide to Good Practice).

Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2012). Collapsible Soils. Manual of Geotechnical Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford, London, UK. ISBN: 9780727757081.

Lombardi DR, Leach JM & Rogers CDF (lead authors); Barber ARG, Barnes M, Boyko CT, Brown J, Bryson JR, Butler D, Caputo S, Caserio M, Coles R, Cooper RFD, Farmani R, Gaterell MR, Hale J, Hales C, Hewitt CN, Hunt DVL, Jankovic L, Jefferson I, MacKenzie AR, Memon F, Pugh TAM, Sadler JP, Weingaertner C & Whyatt JD (co-authors) (2012). Designing Resilient Cities: a Guide to Good Practice. IHS BRE Press, Bracknell, UK, 164 pp. ISBN: 978-1-84806-253-5.

Rogers CDF (2012). The Fundamentals of Ground Improvement. Manual of Geotechnical Engineering, Institution of Civil Engineers, Thomas Telford, London, UK. ISBN: 9780727757081.

Rogers CDF, Bouch CJ, Williams S, Barber ARG, Baker CJ, Bryson JR, Chapman DN, Chapman L, Coaffee J, Jefferson I & Quinn AD (2012). Resistance and Resilience – Paradigms for Critical Local Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Municipal Engineer, 165 (2), 73-83. doi:10.1680/muen.11.00030.

Rogers CDF, Hao T, Costello SB, Burrow MPN, Metje N, Chapman DN, Parker J, Armitage RJ, Anspach JH, Muggleton JM, Foo KY, Wang P, Pennock SR, Atkins PR, Swingler SG, Cohn AG, Goddard K, Lewin PL, Orlando G, Redfern MA, Royal ACD & Saul AJ (2012). Condition Assessment of the Surface and Buried Infrastructure – A Proposal for Integration. Tunnelling and Underground Space Technology, 28, 202-211. doi:10.1016/j.tust.2011.10.012.

Rogers CDF, Lombardi DR, Cooper RFD & Leach JM (2012). The Urban Futures Methodology Applied to Urban Regeneration. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 165 (1), 5-20. doi:10.1680/ensu.2012.165.1.5.

Sterling RL, Admiraal H, Bobylev N, Parker H, Godard J-P, Vähäaho I, Rogers CDF, Shi X & Hanamura T (2012). Sustainability Issues for Underground Space in Urban Areas. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 165 (4), 241-254. doi:10.1680/udap.10.00020.

Hunt DVL, Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2011). Assessing the Sustainability of Underground Space Usage – A Toolkit for Testing Possible Urban Futures. Journal of Mountain Science, 8, Paper 211.  doi:10.1007/s11629-011-2093-8.

Lombardi DR, Caserio M, Donovan R, Hale J, Hunt DVL, Weingaertner C, Barber ARG, Bryson JR, Coles R, Gaterell MR, Jankovic L, Jefferson I, Sadler JP &  Rogers CDF (2011). Elucidating Sustainability Sequencing, Tensions and Tradeoffs in Development Decision–Making. Environment and Planning B, Planning and Design, 38 (6), 1105-1121. doi:10.1068/b36161.

Lombardi DR, Porter EJ, Barber ARG & Rogers CDF (2011). Conceptualising sustainability in UK urban regeneration: a discursive formation. Urban Studies, 48 (2), 273-296. doi:10.1177/0042098009360690.

Hunt DVL, Jefferson I, Gaterell M & Rogers CDF (2009). Planning for Sustainable Utility Infrastructure. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Urban Design and Planning, 162 (4), 187-201. doi:10.1680/udap.2009.162.4.187.

Rogers CDF, Thomas AM, Jefferson I & Gaterell M (2009). Carbon Dioxide Emissions due to Highway Subgrade Improvements. Transportation Research Record, 2104 (1), 80-87. doi:10.3141/2104-09.

Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR, Jefferson I & Rogers CDF (2008). The Development Timeline Framework: A Tool for Engendering Sustainable Use of Underground Space. In Geotechnical Special Publication, 178, 859-866. Published by ASCE. ISBN: 9780784409718.

Hunt DVL, Lombardi DR, Rogers CDF & Jefferson I (2008). Application of Sustainability Indicators in Decision-Making Processes for Urban Regeneration Projects. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 161 (1), 77-91. doi:10.1680/ensu.2008.161.1.77.

Rogers CDF (2006, 2009). Substructures and Underground Space and their Role in a Sustainable Urban Environment. Keynote Paper, Proc. of the International Association of Engineering Geology Congress, Nottingham, UK, 6th-10th September 2006. Published in Geological Society London Engineering Geology Special Publications, 22 (1), 177-188, December 2009. doi: 10.1144/EGSP22.14.

Rogers CDF, Boardman DI & Papadimitriou G (2006). Stress Path Testing of Realistically-Cured Lime and Lime/Cement Stabilized Clay. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers – Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 18 (2), 259-266. doi:10.1061/(ASCE)0899-1561(2006)18:2(259).

Hunt DVL & Rogers CDF (2005). Barriers to Sustainable Infrastructure in Urban Regeneration. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Engineering Sustainability, 158 (2), 67-81. doi:10.1680/ensu.2005.158.2.67.

Barker JE, Rogers CDF & Boardman DI (2006). Physio-Chemical Changes in Clay caused by Ion Migration from Lime Piles. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers – Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering, 18 (2), 182-189. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0899-1561(2006)18:2(182).

Rogers CDF, Fleming PR & Frost MW (2004). A Philosophy for a Performance Specification for Road Foundations. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport, 157 (3), 143-151. doi:10.1680/tran.2004.157.3.143.

Frost MW, Fleming PR & Rogers CDF (2004). Cyclic Triaxial Tests on Clay Subgrades for Analytical Pavement Design. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers – Journal of Transportation Engineering, 130 (3), 378-386. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2004)130:3(378).

Boardman DI, Glendinning S & Rogers CDF (2004). The Influences of Iron (III) and Lead (II) Contaminants on Lime-Stabilised Clay. Geotechnique, 54 (7), 467-486. doi:10.1680/geot.2004.54.7.467.

Cooper ML, Chapman DN, Rogers CDF & Chan AHC (2002). Movements in the Piccadilly Line Tunnels due to the Heathrow Express Construction. Geotechnique, 52 (4), 243-257. doi:10.1680/geot.2002.52.4.243.

Milligan GWE & Rogers CDF (2001). Trenchless Technology. Chapter in Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering Handbook, Kluwer Academic Publishing, Norwell, MA, USA, (R K Rowe Editor), p. 569-592. ISBN 0-7923-8613-2.

Frost MW, Fleming PR & Rogers CDF (2001). Assessment of a Performance Specification Approach for Pavement Foundations. Transportation Research Record, 1757, 100-108. doi:10.3141/1757-12.

Boardman DI, Glendinning S & Rogers CDF (2001). Development of Stabilisation and Solidification in Lime-Clay Mixes. Geotechnique, 51 (6), 533-543. doi:10.1680/geot.2001.51.6.533.

Faragher E, Fleming PR & Rogers CDF (2000). Analysis of Repeated Load Field Testing of Buried Plastic Pipes. Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers – Journal of Transportation Engineering, 126 (3), 271-277. doi: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2000)126:3(271).

Rogers CDF (1999). The Structural Performance of Flexible Pipe for Landfill Drainage. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Geotechnical Engineering, 137 (4), 249-260. doi:10.1680/gt.1999.370410.

Rogers CDF & Chapman DN (1998). Theoretical Modelling of Ground Movements Associated with Trenchless Pipelaying Operations. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Geotechnical Engineering, 131 (4), 210-222. doi:10.1680/igeng.1998.30713.

Assallay AM, Rogers CDF & Smalley IJ (1998). Silt: 2-62mm, 4-90j. Earth Science Reviews, 45, 61-88.

Rogers CDF, Glendinning S & Dixon N (1996). Lime Stabilisation. Thomas Telford, 183pp. ISBN 0-7727-2563-7.

Rogers CDF & Glendinning S (1996). The Role of Lime Migration in Lime Pile Stabilisation of Slopes. Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology, 29 (4), 273-284. doi:10.1144/GSL.QJEGH.1996.029.P4.02.

Rogers CDF, Fleming PR & Talby R (1996). Use of Visual Methods to Investigate the Influence of Installation Procedure upon Pipe/Soil Interaction. Transportation Research Record, 1541, 76-85. doi:10.1177/0361198196154100110.

Rogers CDF & Chapman DN (1995). An Experimental Study of Pipebursting in Sand. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Geotechnical Engineering, 113 (1), 38-50. doi:10.1680/igeng.1995.27276.

Rogers CDF (1995). Types and Distribution of Collapsible Soils. Keynote Paper, Proc. of NATO Workshop on Collapsible Soils. Published in Genesis and Properties of Collapsible Soils (Eds. Derbyshire E, Dijkstra T and Smalley I), Kluwer Academic Press, p.1-17. ISBN: 978-0-7923-3587-0.

Fleming PR & Rogers CDF (1995). Assessment of Pavement Foundations During Construction. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers – Transport, 111 (2), 105-115. doi:10.1680/itran.1995.27578.

Rogers CDF (1987). The Influence of Surrounding Soil on Flexible Pipe Performance. Transportation Research Record 1129, 1-11. www.onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/trr/1987/1129/1129-001.pdf.

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Expertise

Chris is an expert in applying systems thinking and developing engineering responses to the challenge of making towns and cities more sustainable, resilient, liveable and smart.  As a civil engineer, he researches the physical performance of infrastructure systems.

Policy experience

Chris was the academic lead for the Birmingham Policy Commission on Future Urban Living.