{"id":60,"date":"2024-01-11T15:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T15:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cece.ucf.edu\/structures-laboratory\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2024-01-11T16:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T16:22:55","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cece.ucf.edu\/structures-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container py-4\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-7 mb-3 d-flex flex-column justify-content-center\">\n<h2 class=\"heading-underline text-transform-none mb-3\">\n                Burton, Braswell, Middlebrooks Laboratory<br \/>\n                <small class=\"text-muted\">Large-scale Laboratory for Structures &#038; Infrastructure<\/small><br \/>\n            <\/h2>\n<p>The large-scale structures laboratory at UCF was completed in 2001 in Engineering Building II. 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