Scientific domain
PE10: Earth System Science
LS8: Environmental Biology Ecology and Evolution
SH7: Human Mobility Environment and Space
Keywords
CIEM
CIEMito
ICTS
ICTS infrastructure
LaBassa
climate change
large wave channel
marine engineering
ports
small wave channel
wave channel
wave simulations
Home partner institution
(UPC) Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Website
Technical staff available
Yes
Remote access details
No
Remote access available
No
Open to external users
Yes
Equipment
- CIEM
- CIEMito
- La Bassa
Open access to updated information database
No
Online booking system details
No
Online booking system available
No
Description
The UPC Maritime Engineering Laboratory is a specific research center created in 1987. It is part of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The center has a team of research excellence from a range of scientific and technical disciplines. Its infrastructure is unique at national and European levels.
The CIEM research channel has been selected as a "Large Scale Facility" by the European Union since 1997 and as a Singular Research Facility (ICTS) in Spain since 2006.
LIM/UPC is part of MARHIS, Maritime Aggregated Research Hydraulic Infrastructures, a distributed research infrastructure (ICTS) of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness in Spain.