Engineering from the former Xi'an Highway University and part of the Department of Geological Engineering from Xi'an Engineering University. The core majors of the school were founded in the early 1950s, with a history of 72 years in professional education, and it has cultivated more than 30,000 graduates for the country.

Organizational Structure

The school has 7 grass-roots teaching units, namely:

- Department of Architectural Engineering

- Department of Intelligent Construction

- Department of Underground Engineering

- Department of Engineering Cost Estimation‌

- Department of Municipal Engineering

- Department of Built Environment and Energy Engineering

- Department of Engineering Mechanics

And 3 laboratories, including:

- Laboratory of Building Structure and Seismic Resistance

- Civil Engineering Laboratory

- Municipal and HVAC Experimental Center

Discipline and Program Development

The school holds the right to confer doctoral degrees in the first-level discipline of Civil Engineering, the right to confer professional doctoral degrees in Civil and Hydraulic Engineering (led the application and was approved in 2024), and has a Postdoctoral Research Station in Civil Engineering. The School of Civil Engineering takes the lead in constructing the first-level discipline of Civil Engineering, and is responsible for the construction of the following second-level disciplines:

- Structural Engineering (081402)

- Municipal Engineering (081403)

- Heating, Gas Supply, Ventilation and Air Conditioning Engineering (081404)

- Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Engineering and Protective Engineering (081405)

Currently, the school has 3 undergraduate enrollment programs, all of which have been selected as National First-Class Undergraduate Program Construction Sites:

- Civil Engineering

- Water Supply and Drainage Science and Engineering

- Building Environment and Energy Application Engineering

Scientific Research

The school emphasizes strengthening organized scientific research and has established disciplinary research teams. The amount of received research funds has achieved the doubling plan during the 14th Five-Year Plan period, with a total of 110 million yuan in received research funds accumulated in the past five years.

The school hosts 1 National Key R&D Program project and 1 National Key R&D Program task. In the past five years, it has obtained 42 National Natural Science Foundation projects. As the first completing unit, the school has won 1 First Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award, 4 Second Prizes of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Award, and 1 First Prize of Shaanxi Provincial Science and Technology Workers' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

The faculty and staff of the school have published more than 20 monographs, textbooks, and teaching books, and over 800 academic papers, among which more than 500 have been indexed by SCI and EI.

Faculty Development

The school currently has 153 faculty and staff members, including 134 in teaching and research positions and 19 in non-teaching and research positions. There are 24 personnel with senior professional titles and 60 with associate senior professional titles. At present, there are 24 doctoral supervisors and 69 master's supervisors.

The school has 13 person-times of high-level talents, including national-level leading talents, national-level young talents, experts enjoying special government allowances of the State Council, and provincial-level talents. It has invited an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to serve as the dean of the Institute of Resilient Infrastructure and the honorary dean of the school. In addition, 2 Chang'an Scholar chair professors have been flexibly introduced.