Centers, Institutes, and Laboratories
Departmental research and educational activities are strengthened through its centers and laboratories.
Center for Sustainable Use of Resources (SUR)
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The central mission of the SUR is the quantification of greenhouse gas emissions from solid waste management practices and the advancement of the best means for sustainable waste management and resource utilization, in the U.S. and globally. The SUR Center is headquartered at Columbia University and has research laboratories at Columbia University (Earth and Environmental Engineering) and North Carolina State University (Water resources and Environmental Engineering).
Department of Homeland Security Project (DHS)
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The mission of this center is to protect and improve disaster preparedness in coastal regions vulnerable to natural disasters.
Constructed Facilities Laboratory (CFL)
- Located on the University's Centennial Campus, the CFL is part of the Larry K. Monteith Engineering Research Center at North Carolina State University. The research and development programs of the CFL support the mission of the Centennial Campus of creating industry, government, and university partnerships. The CFL is a sophisticated structure with specially designed reaction floors and walls to support three-dimensional loading. A $2.9 million Academic Research Infrastructure grant, co-funded by the National Science Foundation and North Carolina State University, provided extensive state-of-the-art research equipment for constructed infrastructure research.
- National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center: The Repair of Buildings and Bridges with Composites (RB2C)
- Focuses on addressing the needs of the construction industry in the areas of rehabilitation and strengthening of existing structures using the novel, untapped potential of advanced composite materials and technologies
- Institute for Transportation Research and Education
- Conducts research, education, and technical assistance projects related to surface transportation issues. ITRE, which is administered at the university level, carries out numerous activities in collaboration with our faculty and graduate students.
- Center for Transportation and the Environment
- Conducts innovative programs of research, education, and technology transfer that seek to mitigate the impacts of surface transportation on the environment.
- Center for Nuclear Power Plant Structures, Equipment and Piping (C-NPP-SEP)
- Performs research on innovative solutions to problems in nuclear power plants and transfers this technology to the industry.
- NCSU-Kenan Natural Hazards Mapping Program
- Applies state of the art digital photogrammetric techniques to the identification and mitigation of impacts from natural hazards along shorelines.
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