Dr Elia A. Tantele founded and establish the research group Infrastructure: maintenance, monitoring, reliability, optimisation.

The Infrastructure research group comprises the following areas of international research strength:

1. Optimum maintenance strategies for RC bridges
2. Structural reliability and risk assessment
3. Proactive health monitoring and integration with reliability-based maintenance optimization
4. Life-cycle cost optimisation for maintenance of deteriorating infrastructure
5. Monitoring based maintenance
6. Structural health monitoring
7. Corrosion of steel in concrete structures
8. Performance, durability and reliability of structural members
9. Sustainability issues for structures

Website of the research group: http://infrastructure-cure.com/