Due to the experience and the great potential for carrying out the research activity, in the last years, the departments and faculties within the university have focused on major fields of scientific, technological and public interest. UTCB's research, development and innovation competences fall into the following priority areas:
- Smart city;
- Energetic efficiency;
- Disaster resilience.
The most relevant research areas addressed in scientific research are listed below:
- Probabilistic assessment of natural hazards and mapping in Romania;
- Seismic behavior of reinforced concrete, masonry, steel and wood structures;
- Seismic vulnerability and risk assessment;
- Rehabilitation and sustainability of buildings and structures;
- Development of codes and standards in accordance with current Eurocodes (civil engineering, installations, roads, bridges and railways, environmental protection);
- Building energy efficiency;
- Wind engineering;
- Calculation of fluid dynamics;
- Modeling the linear and nonlinear behavior in static and dynamic regime of the resistance structures in the field of transport infrastructure (roads, bridges, railways and tunnels);
- Restoration, extension and modernization of water supply, sewerage and wastewater treatment systems;
- Static and seismic behavior of hydraulic structures; risk and safety analyzes of hydraulic structures;
- Soil-structure interaction;
- Environmental impact studies;
- Exploitation and protection of groundwater resources and dispersion of pollutants in porous and fluid environments;
- Improving water supply networks;
- Construction materials;
- Technologies for investigation and valorization of industrial wastes;
- Chemical analyzes of pollutants and physical and chemical methods of depollution;
- Safety, stability and reliability of installations (thermal, refrigeration, sanitary, electrical, lighting and air conditioning);
- Approval of installation equipment;
- Hydromechanical systems for driving machines, automation and robotization of technological processes in the field of civil engineering;
- Vibrating action machines and machine dynamics;
- Design and implementation of geodetic support networks; modernization of the national geodetic network and its inclusion in the European networks;
- Use of remote sensing data to obtain spatial information;
- Development of the cadastral information system for the management of localities by local administrations and others.