The CIFE community aims to improve the planning, design, construction, and operation of the built environment across all sectors and scales, including buildings, industrial plants, urban districts, manufacturing facilities, infrastructure, and whole cities. The research endeavors to develop and test engineering and management methods that measurably improve the reliability, productivity, innovation, and sustainability of the built environment across product, organization and process.
After 11 years of offering professional Virtual Design and Construction education programs, we are in transition.