Overview

The National Research Center of Prestressing Engineering Technology (NRCPET) was officially approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology at the end of 2011 and established in early 2012. The center is led by the Department of Science and Technology of Jiangsu Province and supported by SEU. The participating companies include Nanjing Dongda Modern Prestressed Engineering Co., Ltd. and SEU Architectural Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd.

Vision

Since its establishment, through engineering technological innovation and mechanism innovation, the center has strived to make itself the main driver of domestic and international prestressing engineering technological innovation and industrialization. The center has also spared no effort in building itself into a human resource distribution center, a core link for business-university-institute integration, an important training base for engineering and management experts, a sharer of prestressing engineering technology, and a magnet for advanced foreign technology. With world-class experimental capabilities and facilities, the center will build a large-scale national instrument and equipment sharing platform for prestressing engineering and tests. A standardized control system for scientific research, development, and financial management and a set of strict, reasonable, and efficient scientific management mechanisms will be built for the center to achieve modern first-class management. Finally, the center will create a virtuous circle of technology, economy, and talents, and establish itself as the world's leading prestressing engineering technology center that promotes not only China's scientific and technological progress but also the sustainable development of civil engineering and other traditional pillar industries.

Research facilities

Shared with the Key Laboratory of Concrete and Prestressed Concrete Structures of the Ministry of Education.

Representative research staff and achievements

Prof. Wu Gang is a winner of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, Chang Jiang Scholar, Ten Thousand Talent Program, a winner of China Youth Science and Technology Award, a second prize winner of the 2019 National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Prof. Guo Zhengxing is an expert in engineering structure construction. His project, Research and Application of Prestressed Construction Technology for Large-span Space Steel Structures, won the second prize of the 2010 National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Prof. Meng Shaoping, a structural engineering expert, won the second prize of the 1998 National Science and Technology Progress Award, and the first prize of the 2015 National Science and Technology Progress Award. He is Vice Chairman of the China Steel Association Prestressing Branch, and Director of the Prestressing Academic Committee of Jiangsu Civil Society.

Prof. Feng Jian, a structural engineering expert, won the first prize of the 2015 National Science and Technology Progress Award. He is among the first batch of young and middle-aged science and technology leaders involved in the 333 high-level talent training project in Jiangsu Province and the Six Talent Peaks project in Jiangsu Province (Class A).

Prof. Wang Jingquan, an expert in bridge structure, won the second prize of the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education in 2017, the first prize of the 2015 National Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of the 2013 Science and Technology Progress Award, and the second prize of the 2009 Science and Technology Progress Award.

Prof. Liu Zhao, an expert in bridge structure, won the first prize of the 2015 National Science and Technology Progress Award.