Established in 1974, the Blume Center is a focal point for research, teaching and professional outreach in earthquake engineering and the related fields of structural engineering and geomechanics.

The Blume Center houses research and teaching laboratories in structural materials, geotechnical materials, and structural engineering. Research facilities include servo-hydraulic testing machines, actuators, data acquisition, and a single-axis shake table. The Blume Center maintains an active professional affiliates program of consulting engineering firms.

The Center also hosts the National Performance of Dams Program, which is a joint industry and government sponsored program that provides a technical resource for information on the performance of dams supporting dam safety, engineering, and public policy.

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Established in the early 1990's as a joint venture between civil engineering and computer science, CIFE is a multi-disciplinary center whose focus is on developing information technologies, tools and methods to dramatically improve the AEC (Architecture, Engineering, Construction) industry.

With support from industry (including construction firms, software firms, and consultants) the focus of the center has evolved with changing technologies and industry needs. The facility houses an interactive I-room, which provides a test bed to investigate innovative technologies and methods for visualization, management and user interaction with design and construction information.

CIFE is also host to the Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects, which serves a community of government and industry sponsors, faculty and researchers with common interests in frameworks, tools and strategies to improve the outcomes of large, complex, global projects.

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The Center for Sustainable Development and Global Competitiveness (CSDGC) at Stanford University engages in research and educational programs that integrate business development strategies with leadership practices that will ensure enterprise growth and success within a healthy and sustainable natural environment.

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The Collaboratory for Research on Global Projects (CRGP) is a partnership between Stanford University, and a group of private industry firms and public sector affiliates to advance the science and practice of planning and implementing global projects.

CRGP defines "Global Projects" as projects that involve participants from multiple societal or cultural systems and/or geo-spatial locations. CRGP studies the kinds of global projects that are large enough to have regional and even national economic and social impacts, that involve multiple engineering disciplines; that have significant impact on our environs where eco-sustainability becomes critical; that are organizationally complex with participation from multiple cultures; and that have complex institutional issues and concerns stemming from conflicts over goals, values, cultural norms, work practices, and technology.

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The Biobased Composites lab is a multi-disciplinary lab located in Y2E2 where structural, materials, environmental and chemical engineering students conduct research on innovative, biobased materials with a focus on applications in the construction industry.

Research is being conducted on all aspects of the lab's envisioned closed-loop life cycle for biobased materials. We are fabricating composites and foams, testing their in-service performance, evaluating their ability to biodegrade anaerobically, and taking polymers grown from the biodegradation processes and extracting them for the fabrication of more composites and foams. The lab houses a controlled environmental room, two fume hoods, a Brabender ATR Plasti Corder extruder, a Wisconsin oven with a 1.2m3 chamber with vacuum attachments for composite manufacturing, an Atlas Xenon WeatherOmeter for weathering testing, a thermal conductivity measuring system, a 12L high-speed mixer, a Columbus Instruments respirometer for biodegradation testing, and a super-critical C02 fluid extractor.

Related research is conducted in the Blume Earthquake Engineering Research Center, the Environmental Engineering and Science Labs and the Center on Polymer Interfaces and Macromolecular Assemblies.

The faculty and students in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory (EFML) study turbulence and mixing in natural flows, natural and forced convection in energy systems, energy and mass transfer between the ocean and the atmosphere, mesoscale phenomena in the oceans and surface layers of the atmosphere, and transport and mixing of pollutants at regional and global scales in the atmosphere.

Research in the EFML employs field research, lab experiments and numerical simulations. The EFML has five major experimental research facilities, including wave/current flumes for studying the hydrodynamics of coral reefs, seagrass, and kelp forest communities, and stratified flow facilities. The EFML is also the home site of the Peter A. McCuen Environmental Computing Center for high performance computing to enable real-world predictions as a basis for design, decision-making, and action to preserve and enhance our environment.

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Housed in the basement of Yang and Yamazaki Environment and Energy building and the James H. Clarke building, the environmental labs include research and teaching facilities for research on water quality control, molecular microbiology, and study of the fate and effects of environmental contaminants.

The facilities include environmental chambers, autoclaves, microscopes, anaerobic glove boxes and casing stations, computerized fermentors and chemostats. The laboratory has extensive analytical equipment including gas and liquid chromatographs, mass spectrometers, and related data acquisition systems.

These facilities sustain both laboratory and field work on the treatment and the environmental movement and fate of various contaminants. This includes the ability to monitor pathogens and study so-called emerging contaminants, such as persistent and bioaccumulative compounds common to consumer goods, personal care products, and pharmaceuticals. The teaching labs are a key component of the curriculum in environmental engineering and science. The labs in the Clarke building provide access to other shared facilities, such as the Stanford Biofilm Research Center.

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The PBL lab is home of an integrated research and curriculum development effort launched in 1993.

The lab's mission is to engage students, faculty and industry partners in multi-disciplinary, collaborative and geographically distributed project based learning activities. The lab is a test bed for new innovations in distance collaboration and learning, including technologies for knowledge capture and sharing and effective workspace environments.

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