Buildings
The School of Civil and Environmental Engineering conducts it's business in several buildings on the Geogia Tech Campus.
Mason Building
The Jesse W. Mason Building was completed in 1969 and is the main building of the School. The entire complex consists of a 5-story building with an appended 2-story high-bay out building. The building contains classrooms, offices, research laboratories, and the main administrative offices of the School. The Mason Building is named for Jesse Mason, Dean of the College of Engineering during the early 1950's.
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/classroom_technology/buildingdetails.php?building=111
Lamar Allen Sustainable Education Building (SEB)
The Lamar Allen Sustainable Education Building (SEB) is a 30,000 square foot building that is intended to serve as a "living laboratory" for the education, research and application of sustainable technologies. The building may look deceptively normal, but it is actually the physical incarnation of a growing area of research and education at the university. SEB was constructed using some of the most up-to-date sustainable materials -- products that are produced in a more environmentally sound way and will last longer -- available in Georgia. The Sustainable Education Building was built from top to bottom with sustainability principles in mind, adhering to many of the ideas that are now taught inside in Tech classrooms. From the networking capabilities to the concrete, and in the design, the building was built through donations from about 40 businesses and individuals. Opened in 1998, the $4 million facility has a multimedia theater, research labs, computer centers and faculty offices for the School. The building is named for Mr. O. Lamar Allen. Mr. Allen was the visionary who conceived the idea of the SEB to educate future engineers who better understand the relationship between economic development, technology, and the environment. Mr. Allen had the vision of creating a building at GIT where the areas of environmentally conscious design could come together with manufacturing and sustainable technologies. Mr. Allen's business leadership helped pull together the consortium of donors to fund the SEB. Mr. Allen died at the age of 49 together with his 16-year-old son, Ashton Lamar Allen, in the explosion of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island, New York on July 17, 1996.
Daniel Laboratory Building
The Daniel Environmental Engineering Laboratory (DEEL) was constructed in 1942 and completely renovated in 1995. Originally housing the Chemistry Program at Georgia Tech, the building was reassigned to the Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Program in 1972. DEEL is an excellent wet-lab facility in a three-story building with approximately 14,500 square feet of usable floor space. The renovation of DEEL was completed with grants to the EnvE program from the NSF and the Georgia Research Alliance and with funding from the Georgia Board of Regents. The laboratory has extensive analytical capabilities to support educational and research missions within the EnvE program.
Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building
The Ford Environmental Science and Technology Building (Ford ES&T), the largest academic building at Tech with 287,000 square feet is named for its principal donor, the Ford Motor Company. Dedicated in 2002, the Ford ES&T Building is the second of four to open in the Institutes interdisciplinary Life Sciences and Technology Complex. The building contains classrooms and research facilities for the Schools of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Earth and Atmospheric Sciences as well as the disciplines of environmental biology and chemistry. It also holds space for the Advanced Technology & Development Center. The $58 million Ford ES&T Building was built with a combination of state and private funding, with $38 million coming from the state of Georgia, $15 million from private donors and $5 million from the Georgia Research Alliance. The CEE program housed in ES&T, as well as in Daniel Lab and SEB (see below), is the Environmental Engineering (EnvE) program. The faculty, staff and students in EnvE have approximately 19,000 nsf of space in the ES&T facility, complemented with 14,500 nsf in Daniel Lab and the MESL lab of Professor Aral in 1,000nsf in SEB. The program has, as of Spring 2005, an academic tenure-track faculty of 15 with a research faculty (Research Scientists, Research Engineers and Research Professor) of 7 and 6 Postdoctoral Fellows. The program has 115 graduate students with 65 PhD students. The MSEnvE program is available to on-campus students (~25) and video-based students (~25). EnvE programs have extensive interdisciplinary interactions with campus programs, students, staff and faculty in Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (EAS), Environmental Biology, Environmental Chemistry, Biomedical Engineering (BME) and Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (ChBE).
http://www.oit.gatech.edu/classroom_technology/buildingdetails.php?building=147
Structures Laboratory
The Structural Engineering and Materials Laboratory supports experimental research, testing, and evaluation capabilities in separate building with a total area of approximately 18,000 ft2. The facility includes a strong floor 174 ft. long, with widths ranging from 41 ft. to 53.5 ft., for a total testing area of over 8,000 ft.2. The floor has anchor points on a 4 ft. grid throughout the entire testing floor, with a service load capacity of 200 kips each. The anchors consist of a set of four large Dywidag inserts that allow post-tensioning of reaction frames to the floor. The facility also includes an L-shaped reaction wall, with anchor points on a 4 ft. grid and a capacity ranging up to 300 kips at a height of 32 ft. The main wall is 53.5 ft. long and 34 ft. high. The adjoining wall height varies from 34 ft to 24 ft and is 55 ft long. Each wall is 2 ft. thick, with 12 ft. buttresses 12 ft. on center. The wall system is designed to carry about 30,000 kip-ft of overturning moment in each principal direction, allowing for bi-directional testing of full-scale three-story two-bay specimens. A high pressure, high capacity MTS hydraulic system is distributed throughout the testing bay with modular ports to facilitate quick and flexible testing setup. The main hydraulic pump is a 150 gpm unit with a planned upgrade to 300 gpm. Several smaller pumps, ranging from 21 to 55 gpm capacity also are available for stand-alone testing. Two 30 ton bridge cranes service the main testing bay, which has a total clear height of 38 ft. Modern structural testing equipment includes several digitally controlled servo-hydraulic rams with up to 30 in. stroke and 328 kip capacity. Four OPTIM data acquisition systems for laboratory and field use are available with capacities up to several hundred channels and for a large variety of sensor inputs. Testing machines include a Riehle 400 kips screw-type universal testing machine with an opening 15 ft. high and 4 ft. wide; a state-of-the-art MTS 810 system with a capacity of 55 kips, hydraulic grips, and environmental testing chamber; and a SATEC 800 kips compression machine.