The School operates several computer facilities for research and teaching. The operating systems include UNIX, Windows, and Macintosh. New software is routinely integrated into the existing environment. In addition to in-house capabilities, the School is also supported by a variety of University facilities, including the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. The University libraries provide information resources and services that serve the diverse needs of the Carnegie Mellon community. Library collections include more than 750,000 volumes and more than 4,300 periodical subscriptions.

The Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD), a National Science Foundation Industry/University/Government Cooperative Research Center, operates within the School of Architecture. The Center conducts fundamental and empirical research and is involved in various development and demonstration projects focusing on issues of building systems integration, environmental design, occupancy factors, and computer-aided building performance simulation. The major goal is to increase user satisfaction and well-being and to enhance cost, time, energy, and environmental effectiveness. The Center is supported by the Advanced Building Systems Integration Consortium (ABSIC), which was established in 1988. With support from ABSIC, industries in Germany and Japan, and Carnegie Mellon University, the CBPD built The Intelligent Workplace. This living and lived-in laboratory of the future workplace functions as a test bed for innovative materials, components, and systems serving research, development, demonstration, and educational purposes.

Interdisciplinary collaboration with the Software Engineering Institute; the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems; the School of Computer Science; and the Departments of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Psychology provide a fertile ground for the pursuit of graduate studies and research.