The School of Civil Engineering has been reputed as being one of the best engineering schools in Shandong Province. The faculty, staff and students strive for addressing technological and practical demands of a rising economy.In recognition of its quality of research, several of the School’s institutes have been awarded the status of Provincial Key Laboratories.

The School occupies a leading position in the area of construction moving, strengthening and retrofitting. It also owns advances in the frontiers of high-performance structure system and disaster prevention, performance improvement and control of old structures, and geotechnical earthquake engineering and engineering geotechnical stability. In the past five years, the School has undertaken more than 100 scientific research projects at the provincial level and above, including more than 40 projects supported by the National Natural Science Fund; published more than 20 books and 700 papers, among which at least 200 papers have been indexed by SCI or EI; and secured more than 60 national patents and more than 30 authenticated research products. The School pays increasing attention on integration of theoretical education and engineering practice, created a significantly characteristic way to closely unify industry, education and research. More than 100 scientific research results have been promoted, and economical benefits over 100 million yuan were achieved. After decades of coordinated development of industry, education and research, a group of school-owned enterprises such as Shandong Jianzhu University Design Group Co., Ltd., Shandong Jianzhu University Engineering Appraisal and Strengthening Research Institute Co., Ltd., and Shandong Jianzhu University Appraisal and Testing Center Co., Ltd. and other school-run enterprises have been established as the leading industry-university-research cooperation.