Central Building Research Institute

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INTRODUCTION:

The Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee, India, has been vested with the responsibility of generating, cultivating and promoting building science and technology in the service of the country.
Since it's inception in 1947, the Institute has been assisting the building construction and building material industries in finding timely, appropriate and economical solutions to the problems of materials, rural and urban housing, energy conservation, efficiency, fire hazards, structural and foundation problems and disaster mitigation.

The Institute maintains linkages with international bodies like CIB, Netherlands; TWAS, Italy; BRE, U.K.; ASTM, U.S.A.; CSIRO, Australia; RILEM, France; BRS, Canada and UNCHS, Nairobi, Kenya.At the national level, the Institute has close interaction with BMTPC, HUDCO, DST, Ministry of Urban Development, Ministry of Rural Areas, Housing Boards and Societies of the State Governments, engineering and academic institutions, construction and building material industries.

The major areas of research are:

Shelter Planning
New Materials
Structural & Foundation Engineering
Disaster Mitigation
Process Development

Few of the recent succesful R & D/consultancy projects carried out in CBRI are listed below:

Soft computing based modeling and simulation for the identification and diagnosis of structural system via vibration response

Seismic damage scenario of building in Almora

Use of fly ash in concretes for Longer service life of RC Structures in Different Environment

Fire resistance assessment of BSNL fire door

Reaction to fire characteristics studies on EXCEL MAT E

Evaluation of �Koylane AER003� polypropylene random

Techno feasibility & Process Demonstration for the manufacturing. Of clay fly ash brichs in Maharastra State.

Computation of Mix Proportion of Cement & Concrete Samples.

Field Investigation of indoor surface temprature of non AC room with Application of perlite concrete on roof in extern climate condition.

Performance Appraisal of Core Fire Door for Fire Resistance

Development of design and execution drawing for tourism convenience centre cum information centre building in Uttranchal

Investigation of Metallic Barrier Around Mazaar and Advice far Minaratul Mugch at Maszid Aqsa, Quadian.

Assessment of quality of construction of the heartily Built auditorium at Raj Bhawan Dehradun

CBRI offers training programmes to engineers, architects, artisans, contractors and administrators in different areas of building science and technologies. Number of overseas personnel from Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Philippines, Bangladesh and Bhutan have visited CBRI for trainings. Training Programmes organized by CBRI in the recent past are;