The Key Laboratory of Structural Engineering and Earthquake Resistance of the Ministry of Education relies on Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology, was approved for project establishment in 2005 and passed the acceptance in 2008. Based in the western region and facing the whole country, the laboratory carries out systematic research around five major directions: new engineering materials and high-performance structures, protection and inheritance of ancient building structures, western rural and town buildings and green construction, structural toughness and intelligent disaster prevention, and intelligent diagnosis and long-life guarantee of engineering structures, with remarkable characteristic advantages. It has achieved a series of original achievements in the fields of earthquake resistance of 'heavy-load, long-span and complex' structures, safety assessment and performance improvement of ancient buildings, and durability theory of concrete structures, which have been adopted by many national and industry standards. The laboratory has an innovation team of the Ministry of Education, a national-level teaching team and multiple provincial-level innovation teams, with advanced scientific research conditions. It is one of the largest and first-class civil engineering research bases in the northwest region of China, which strongly supports the construction of the national key discipline of civil engineering, and provides important scientific and technological and talent support for the development of the western region, the 'Belt and Road' Initiative and the national 'dual carbon' strategy.
