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NETHERLANDS
BOllWCENTRUM
Weena 700
P.O. Box 299
3000 AG, Rotterdam
CONTACT: Heinrich Meijer, Director
MISSION: To develop technology to improve, maintain, and renovate the built environment.
PRIMARY WORK: Provides technical, physical, and management research and consultations in
dwellings; information systems; training; and exhibitions.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Research grants, fees for services, sale of publications, and
exhibitions.
PUBLICATIONS: Monthly and bimonthly journals, research reports, bibliographies, and
specialty publications.
BUILDING RESEARCH FOUNDATION
Weena 740
P.O. Box 20740
30001 JA Rotterdam
CONTACT: J. J. de Bruijn, General Director
MISSION: To represent the building industry with information for improving building
practices.
PRIMARY WORK: Provides work in building techniques including structures, materials,
construction methods, building failures, city planning, environmental issues, business
management problems on-site, organization, economics; transfer of knowledge to the building
industry and the building educational and training centers.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Contractors and building industry research fund.
PUBLICATIONS: Research reports.
TIMBER CENTER FOR RESEARCH, INFORMATION, AND EDUCATION
P.O. Box 401
1400 AK Bussum
CONTACT: A. van der Velden, Managing Director
MISSION: To initiate, stimulate, and coordinate technology development and delivery for
improved wood building practices.
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PRIMARY WORK: Provides research in material properties, timber structural failures, and
information systems.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Timber trade and industry, sale of publications, and fees for
contracts.
PUBLICATIONS: Research reports and list of publications.
CLAD ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTER APPLICATION IN ENGINEERING
P.O. Box 74
2700 AB Zoetermeer
CONTACT: J. C. le Clercq, Director
MISSION: To represent members through a central source of computer integrated
architectural and design information.
PRIMARY WORK: Provides information collection and delivery services and conducts training.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Membership fees and government subsidies.
PUBLICATIONS: Monographs and specialty publications.
DELFI HYDRAULICS LABORATORY (DHL)
Waterloopkundig Laboratory
Rotterdamseweg 185
P.O. Box 117
2600 MH Delft
CONIACI: J. E. Prins, Director
MISSION: To serve as consulting and research institute in hydrology engineering.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in model investigations, design of hydraulic structures
river and coastal engineering; and consulting and advisory services.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Fees from contracts.
PUBLICATIONS: Quarterly journal, research reports, and specialty publications.
DELFI GEOTECHNICS
Stieltjesweg 2
P.O. Box 69
2600 AB Delft
CONTACT: W. Stevelink, Managing Director
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MISSION: To serve as a consulting and research institute in the field of soil mechanics,
foundation engineering, and environmental geotechnology.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs theoretical and laboratory research in geotechnical engineering and
environmental geotechnics; offers testing services In the field, in the laboratory, and In
a geotechnical centrifuge; and also offers information systems.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Fees for research and consultancy.
PUBLICATIONS: Semiannual journals and bimonthly abstracts.
DELL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,
DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
P.O. Box 5048
2600 GA Dew
CONTACT: G. J. van Alphen, Manager, Department of Civil Engineering
MISSION: To undertake research in civil engineering and town planning for improving
building practices.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research In civil engineering, materials, environmental
engineering, road and railroad construction, fluid mechanics.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: University.
PUBLICATIONS: Research reports, semiannual information reports, and specialty
publications.
DUTCH CEMENT INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 3011
5203 DA, 's-Hertogenbosch
CONTACT: C. F. A. Wolterbeek, Director
MISSION: To stimulate a wider and better use of cement and concrete.
PRIMARY WORK: Undertakes market development activities, promotes use of concrete, and
collects and disseminates information on application of concrete.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Dutch cement manufactures.
PUBLICATIONS: Monthly, bimonthly, and quarterly journals; books on concrete constructions
and applications; market development leaflets and brochures; and list of publications.
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EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY,
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING, AND PLANNING,
MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES LABORATORY
P.O. Box 513
5600 MB Eindhoven
CONTACT: E. M. M. G. Niel
J. W. B. Stark
MISSION: To provide education and research to advance building practices.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in materials including masonry, timber, metals, and waste
materials; civil engineering, including off-shore structures, fracture mechanics,
development of new construction, innovations, and building re-use.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Government.
PUBLICATIONS: Standards, research reports, and specialty journals.
FOUNDATION FOR ARCHITECTS' RESEARCH
Eindhoven University,
P.O. Box 429
Ewdhoven
CONTACT: John C. Carp
MISSION: To advance knowledge of the decision making, design, and production process for
improved usability of the built environment.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in the development of design and decision methods for
housing, spatial relationships, and user control; promotes real-world applications and
exchange of professional experience through worldwide SAR-NETWORK.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Donations by sponsors and fees for research and services.
PUBLICATIONS: Specialty publications.
QUALITY DECLARATIONS ORGANIZATIONS FOR BUILDING MATERIALS
AND COMPONENTS (KOMO)
Sir Winston Churchill-Laan 273
P.O. Box 240
2280 AE Rijswijk ZH
CONTACT: F. Wagenmaker, Director
MISSION: To serve as the central institute for quality declarations (certificates,
conformity-marks and agrements) for the building industry.
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PRIMARY WORK: Performs tests, assesses the results and issues certificates and agrements
for building materials and structural components, quality control, regulations, testing,
and information.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Fees for services and sales of publications.
PUBLICATIONS: Quarterly information bulletins, annual report, and technical criteria.
L.M.I. B.V. LABORATORIES FOR MA - RIMS AD INDUSTRIES
Kerkrade
P.O. Box 134
Rimburgerweg 2
6471 XX Eygelshoven
CONTACT: J. Hoogman
W. van Alem
MISSION: Research and development for industries.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research on waste products, recycling of building materials, new
utilizations for coal ash and grpsum, natural and artificial stones, metals corrosion, and
environmental impact on building materials.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Industry, government, and private investment.
PUBLICATIONS: Research reports and laboratory results.
NATIONAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION
Markenlaan 1
P.O. Box 50051
130~ AB Almere
CONTACT: B. G. A. Kempen, General Director
MISSION: To serve housing associations with knowledge about improved operation and
maintenance of housing.
PRIMARY WORK: Provides services in management and organization, technical developments,
and financial aspects.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Fees from members and services.
PUBLICATIONS: Biweekly newspaper, newsletter, and specialty publications.
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NED PRODUCT-INFORMATION SYSTEMS BV
P.O. Box 23
7400 GA Deventer
CONTACT: F. R. Thedieck, Director
MISSION: To serve as intermediary between the producer and the building product user.
PRIMARY WORK: Publishes the Netherlands Building Documentation system.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Product manufacturers using the service.
PUBLICATIONS: Building product index, specialty product information, and bulletins.
PHILIPS INTERNATIONAL BV,
BUILDING DESIGN AND ENGINEERING DIVISION
Cederlaan 4
5616 SC Eindhoven
CONTACT: A. B. M. van der Plas
MT.~T~N~ t~ am.- I ~ L -I _ ~ ~ ~
r^~l~l. 1 o provlae arcm~ectural and design services to users, as well as services
relating to accommodations and communications.
PRIMARY WORK Performs consultations in civil, mechanical, electrical engineering; project
management; feasibility studies; managing, operating, and maintaining accommodations, and
ad related support functions related to those tasks; developing and stimulating an
effective environmental and energy policy; and planning and implementing communications
policy, systems, and facilties.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Fees for services.
PUBLICATIONS: Professional journals.
PI^NNING COMMI lTEE FOR BUILDING RESEARCH OF THE NETHERLANDS
ORGANIZATION FOR APPLIED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH
P.O. Box 238
2600 AE Delft
MISSION: To serve as a laboratory and testing facility for the building community.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in building physics, environmental engineering, building
materials, metals, corrosion, paints, surface technology, physics of explosions,
structures' fire engineering, plastics and rubber, and risk analysis.
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SOURCE OF FINANCES: Government, grants and contributions, and fees for research.
PUBLICATIONS: Journal, research reports, papers in professional journals, committee
reports, and specialty publications.
RIVV INSTITUTE FOR HOUSING RESEARCH
Berlageweg 1
2628 CR Delft
CONTACT: P. P. J. Houben, Director
MISSION: To provide and implement improved housing technology; Associated with the Delft
Technical University.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in housing economics, housing quality, housing needs for
special groups, and urban renewal.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Delft Technical University and fees for research.
PUBLICATIONS: Articles in professional journals, research results, and specialty
publications.
SOCIEI Y FOR THE STUDY OF PRECAST CONCRETE CONSTRUCTION
Raamweg 16
P.O. Box 85512
2508 CE's-Gravenhage
CONTACT: F. Treffers, Managing Director
MISSION: To serve building community members with improved technologies and methods.
PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in materials including precast concrete and connection
details and develops codes of practice for precast concrete.
SOURCE OF FINANCES: Annual member fees and research grants.
PUBLICATIONS: Research reports and published articles in the Dutch Concrete Institute
periodicals.
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