The Hubei key laboratory of the Roadway Bridge and Structural Engineering was established in September 2004. The laboratory passed through the examination and check hold by the Education department and the Technological department of the Hubei Province with excellent grades. The laboratory is under the joint construction of both the Hubei Province and the Wuhan University of Technology through integrating many excellent disciplines such as the civil engineering, the materials science and engineering, the transportation engineering. The laboratory currently has many research directions such as: the intelligent disaster prevention and mitigation of structures, the traffic environment, the geotechnical engineering, the bridge monitoring technology, the high-performance road materials etc. The area of the laboratory is about 8000 m2. There are many facilities such as the 3×3m shaking table, the fiber Bragg grating sensor (96) structural health monitoring experimental platform, the testing facilities for static and dynamic responses and many other advanced equipment. The laboratory can award the Doctor and Master degrees and accept post-doctoral fellow in many disciplines such as: the Structural Engineering, the Bridge and Tunnel engineering, the Disaster Prevention and Reduction Engineering and the Geotechnical Engineering.

Laboratory pay much attention to the academic exchanges with the domestic and oversea universities and research institutes such as the agency in United States, France, Japan, Australia and etc. Many staffs and students of the laboratory have been studied or carried out the scientific research cooperation abroad. In addition, many famous domestic and foreign experts and scholars are invited to give presentation.

Overall positioning: Aims to investigate the fundamental theory, crucial techniques and real application in structural engineering, road engineering and bridge engineering. To provide technological support and talent guarantee for the development of the civil engineering of the Hubei Province.

Development goals: To reach the leading levels at home and abroad in some research fields. To construct an important agency for the academic research and talent cultivation in the HubeiProvince and China.

Seven main research fields:

1．  Intelligent control for vibration of structural engineering

2．Performance evaluation and early warning for in-service structure 

3．Assessment on fatigue service-life of welding connection of steel structure

4．Structural analysis and performance evaluation on large-span steel-RC combined space bridge structure.

5．Mechanics property of deep rock and the key technologies of deep underground large-span engineering 

6．Application of new materials on the roadway bridge engineering.

7．Environment vibration induced by traffic loads and control technology of  vibration and noise