Research
Professionals must maximize the economic, environmental, and social benefits of the built environment. To achieve this, they must leverage emerging technologies like digital twins, robotics, VR, and AI along with modern management methods such as, VDC, project production management, and integrated project delivery. CIFE researchers, in collaboration with their industry partners, advance these methods to enhance project value and efficiency, helping academia and industry transform and optimize impact.
CIFE Seed Research
Each spring quarter, Stanford faculty have the opportunity to submit proposals for CIFE seed research projects. With the guidance of our industry members, CIFE will award some of the proposals so that Ph.D. students can work on their seed research projects throughout the following academic year. The findings of the research will be shared publicly.
All current and previous CIFE seed research projects can be found in the menu sorted by year.
Approach to CIFE Research
The goal of CIFE research is to invent, develop, test, deploy, and validate novel methods and tools for multidisciplinary design, fabrication, construction, and operation.
1. INTEGRATE
Practical Experiences of CIFE Members
Theory of Engineering and Social Science
Results of Field Intervention Studies
3. IMPROVE
the built environment by making it more useable, sustainable, innovative, and resilient