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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.

2025 Call for Proposals

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

2. DEVELOP


New Methods and Tools for Design, Construction, and Operations Management

Employing a holistic Product-Organization-Process Framework

3. IMPROVE


the built environment by making it more useable, sustainable, innovative, and resilient

4. CONTRIBUTE


Knowledge relevant to AECO

Improvements in practice

Avenues for industry-academia-driven research