The Fritz Engineering Laboratory, designated as an American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) Civil Engineering Landmark Structure, features 800,000 lb and 5,000,000 lb universal testing machines, and a dynamic test bed with broad fatigue-testing capabilities, and a wide range of instrumentation. The laboratory was founded in 1909 and enlarged to the present capacity in 1954.
![Pillar breaking during a test](https://atlss.lehigh.edu/sites/atlss.lehigh.edu/files/G-fritz-pillar.jpg)