The Center was founded utilizing resources of the School of Construction Management and Real Estate of Chongqing University and was listed as one of the key research bases for humanities and social sciences of Chongqing in January 2013. It has 3 subordinate research groups, namely the Research Group of Complicated Engineering Project Management, Research Group of Sustainable Construction and Research Group of Safety and Emergency Management. Its main research areas include research of management organization modes for complicated engineering projects, information management technology of complicated engineering projects and theoretical foundation of complicated engineering projects; research of sustainable construction management and policy for engineering projects, management of building waste reduction and recycling, and incentive mechanism and management of building energy efficiency; and research of warning theory and emergency management, project risk management and building safety management. There are currently 21 full-time researchers and 6 part-time researchers, including 15 professors, 10 associate professors and 2 lecturers.