The Composite Materials, Manufacture and Structures Laboratory (CMMS) is located at 3317 W Vine Drive in The Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Research Center at the Factory, 5 miles west of CSU’s main campus in Fort Collins, Colorado.

The Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Research Center at the Factory is on a 10-acre site.  Factory A, the Laboratory Building, is a 14,000-square-foot facility which was built in 1958 by the Silvaire Aircraft Company for the manufacture of an all-metal aircraft.  Factory B is a 6,000-square-foot office complex, immediately West of Factory A, which includes faculty and graduate student offices as well as a conference room and small classroom. The site served as CSU’s Agricultural Engineering Research Center from the 1960s until 2002 when it became the Motorsport Engineering Research Center for the next 15 years.

The Composite Materials, Manufacture, and Structures Laboratory, initiated in the fall of 1989 to address research and educational issues related to composite materials, has been located at The Factory since 2004. Renovations to Factory A, in 2017, for three interdisciplinary laboratories, Advanced Computational Materials Engineering Laboratory, Multifunctional Polymers and Composites Laboratory, and Nanostructured Materials and Nanomechanics Laboratory, expanded the scope of the research at the facility to maintain its roots in CSU research.