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Facilities and Research

Facilities, Institutes and Centers

A major renovation to the teaching and research laboratories is nearing completion.

Construction Management renovated laboratory facilities include a computer facility with estimating, scheduling, project management, wood engineering design, computer aided design and drafting, finite element analysis and other specialized software and a new Construction Methods and Safety Lab.

Wood Products Engineering laboratory facilities include a mechanical testing laboratory with a wide range of testing equipment , electronic data acquisition facilities, and wood processing facilities including a dry kiln, wood preservation equipment, a new wood machining laboratory, sawmill, and a expanded facilities to include Building Materials Research for Green Construction and Low-cost Housing Research.

The C.J.K. Wang Wood Biodegradation Laboratory includes mycology culturing facilities and a modern molecular analysis laboratory; research microscopes, image analysis system and wood microtechnique equipment.

One of the largest wood collections in the world, the H. P. Brown Memorial Wood Collection, is used to support the graduate research program of the Tropical Timber Information Center. The center also maintains the Carl deZeeuw Memorial Library.

A complete microscopy and image analysis laboratory is provided by the N.C. Brown Center for Ultrastructure Studies. This equipment includes a transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscopes with energy dispersive x-ray analysis and particulate analysis accessories, and a wide variety of light microscopes equipped with image enhancement and various video image analysis capabilities. Graduate students from ESF as well as SU have access to coursework in microscopy which provides access to the microscopy equipment for their research projects. Faculty and graduate students are encouraged to gather expert advice from the staff of the Ultrastructure Center on tissue preparation and interpretation as well counsel on the most recent research approaches utilizing microscopy.

Graduate students in CMWPE using this equipment have the best available systems to relate the macroscopic behavior of wood to its anatomical characteristics.

The Renewable Materials Institute conducts research in the broad area of sustainable development of wood resources and the uses of wood products.