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About PHRCWhat We DoBecome MemberConferencePublicationsTrainingMembers OnlyThe Center for Sustainability (CfS) is a unique entity at Penn State that focuses upon the critical interfaces between sustainable technologies and the practices that will put these technologies into action.
The Center for High Performance Building Systems (CHiPBS) at Penn State has unique facilities and partnerships for conducting the R&D required to establish specific materials, component and subsystems innovations needed to realize HPB systems and to demonstrate, quantitatively, the values of these innovations in the context of the building system performance.
The Civil Infrastructure Testing and Evaluation Laboratories (CITEL) is a laboratory facility that focuses on improving civil infrastructure and also features loading equipment of up to 220 kips and high-speed data acquisition equipment. Some of the capabilities of this facility include: a concrete mixing area, environmental chambers that can simulate a number of climatic conditions, a composite materials laboratory, an accelerated pavement testing facility, computational facilities for advanced infrastructure analysis, and a 10,000-sq.-ft. structures laboratory for large– or small-scale testing.
The Composites Manufacturing Technology Center (CMTC) is a modern lab facility used for fabrication, characterization, and performance evaluation of composite structures. CMTC is associated with the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics at Penn State University. CMTC is also the center of inter-departmental research in advanced structural composites in the College of Engineering. Equipment in this Lab includes facilities for fabrication, characterization, and performance evaluation of laboratory-scale and full-scale composite structures.
The Materials Characterization Lab (MCL) at Penn State offers affordable access to a wide range of state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation for materials research and analysis such as electron microscopy, particle analysis, thermal analysis and spectroscopy facilities. MCL instrumentation can be used for PHRC projects requiring the application of specialized materials analysis techniques.
The Smart Spaces Center at Penn State is an interdisciplinary group of faculty from the Colleges of Arts and Architecture, Engineering, Information Sciences and Technology, Health and Human Development and Medicine. The goal of this center is to research and develop new solutions and technologies for persons to “age in place” – remain in their homes – as they move into their elderly years. This center is housed within the Architectural Engineering Department and works in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Housing Research Center on projects related to aging in place.
