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An International Directory
of Building Research
Organizations
Building Research Board
Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems
National Research Council
NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Washington, D.C. 1989
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National Academy Press · 2101 Constitution Avenue, N.W. · Washington, D.C. 90418
NOTICE: The project for which this directory was prepared was approved by the Governing Board of
the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy
of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine. The members of the
committee responsible for the project were chosen for their special competences and with regard for
appropriate balance.
This directory has been reviewed by a group other than the authors according to procedures approved
by a Report Review Committee consisting of members of the National Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine.
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the Congress in 1863, the Academy has a mandate that requires it to advise the federal government on
scientific and technical matters. Dr. Frank Press is president of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Academy of Sciences, as a parallel organization of outstanding engineers. It is autonomous in its
administration and in the selection of its members, sharing with the National Academy of Sciences the
responsibility for advising the federal government. The National Academy of Engineering also sponsors
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the superior achievements of engineers. Dr. Robert M. White is president of the National Academy of
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of Sciences and the State Department. Work was completed as part of the technical program of the Federal
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is a unit of the Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems of the National Research Council.
The purpose of the FCC is to promote cooperation among federal construction agencies and between
such agencies and other elements of the building community in addressing technical issues of mutual
concern. The FCC program is supported by 14 federal agencies: the Department of the Air Force, the
Department of the Army, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of the
Navy, the Department of State, the General Services Administration, the National Aeronautics and Space
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National Endowment for the Arts Grant No. 42-4253-0091; National Science Foundation Grant No.
MSM-8600676, under master agreement 82-05615; and U.S. Postal Service grant, unnumbered.
I`ibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
An International directory of building research organizations.
Bibliography: p.
Includes index.
1. Building research United States Directories. 2. Building research—Directories.
I. National Research Council (U.S.~. Building Research Board.
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Foreword
In this often fractious world, all nations share the needs for buildings and facilities of
physical infrastructure to shelter and productively support the activities of their people.
We all strive to improve the quality of our lives, and so these needs persist, regardless of
leveb of national income, political philosophy, and social structure.
Building research, the directed effort to discover new and better ways to meet these
needs for buildings and physical infrastructure, thus offers benefits to all and occurs in
many nations around the world. Opportunities for improving the materials, processes, and
products of building far exceed the resources available for research, and so researchers and
policy makers must strive to focus their attention on those matters of greatest concern
and where their efforts are most likely to have valuable results. Knowledge of who the
researchers are and what they are doing will help the community of researchers to achieve
this focus. This knowledge will in turn help the beneficiaries of building research all of
us by encouraging more rapid improvement of the built environment for all people.
The Building Research Board (BRB) has produced An International Directory of Build-
ing Research Organizations to help spread this knowledge. While our context is global, we
must acknowledge a parochial interest as well: Building research and technological innova-
tion in the United States are lagging. They are lagging in comparison with the great strides
being made in such fields as electronics and big-technology that may have application in
building. They are lagging in terms of research spending, compared with the importance of
construction in the U.S. economy and compared with other nations. Our lagging research
effort threatens the productivity and competitiveness of our construction industry in an
increasingly global marketplace.
We need, as a nation, to be aware of what our partners and competitors are doing,
so that we may take advantage of the work of others that can help us to solve our own
problems, bring our achievements to the attention of others who may find them useful, and
maintain our economic leadership. The BRB hopes that this directory will in its small way
help us to achieve these ends.
Andrew C. Lemer, Director
Building Research Board
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Preface
Given the fact that the U.S. building industry is the nation's largest industry with over
$400 billion in revenues, the amount of research supporting it is small, concentrated in a
limited number of locations and fields, and, in some cases, closely held in corporations. In
addition, most people in the building industry have little knowledge about research going
on in the United States, and even less about research being undertaken abroad.
Unlike research performed within the contexts of other large industries, building re-
search is highly fragmented, reflecting the nature of the industry. Knowledge and theory
tend not to be built on an industry-wide basis. Because of these characteristics, there is no
industry-wide source of information on the knowledge base of the building industry in the
United States and abroad. This directory narrows that gap by making available in one place
a compilation of U.S. and international organizations involved in building-related research.
In its report, Building for Tomorrow, a committee of the Building Research Board called
for greater recognition of the global aspects of the building industry of the future. This
directory is a first step to help inform the building industry and others about the types of
organizations and the diversity of work ongoing around the world.
Originally, this effort was part of a larger one. The U.S. Department of State, as part of
a program undertaken with the Building Research Board to develop security-related criteria
for future embassy buildings, requested a report on where technological advances in the
building industry were taking place in order to assure itself of the highest level of building
expertise. To do so, the agency needed a mechanism for informing itself about current
building-related research, and for acquiring the research support its special needs require.
The collection and organization of information about the nature, extent, and depth of the
knowledge base for building research resulted in this publication.
Several studies have addressed the need for industry-wide information on research and
a number of groups have supplied some of this information. Worth special note are the Ar-
chitectural Research Centers Consortium's (ARCC) An Agenda for Architectural Research,
1982; a study by the Franklin Research Center for the National Institute of Building Sci-
ences called Existing Systems for the Identification, Determination, and Communication of
the Research, Development, and Information Needs of the BuildingIndustry; and Proceedings
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of the Building Industry Round;table on Technology Transfer and Research Utilization, pre-
pared by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers
(ASHRAE) for the Department of Energy.
The organization profiles are organized into two major sections: United States and
international. Withm the U.S. section, the profiles are subdivided according to the type of
organization performing the work: associations, corporations, universities (both architec-
ture and engineering departments), federal laboratories, and other research centers.
The associations contacted either provided information about their own research, or
made referrals to research facilities. Most of the associations contract out research. The cor-
porations included here are only those that do, or are willing to undertake, outside contract
research. For the most part, these corporations have established research and development
(R&D) centers. Building research takes place in 46 universities and technological institutes.
Multiple research centers within the same university are reported separately. Frequently,
these centers have access to each other's equipment and facilities, and are associated in
a formal or informal interdisciplinary research effort. The profiles of federal laboratories
describe only the facility's building-related research. A final section comprises independent,
non-profit research centers and laboratories.
The international section of building research organizations is arranged alphabetically
by nation. Organizations from 53 nations responded to a survey on building research
activities. The results of this survey form the basis of the international section.
Each profile United States and international contains the name and address of the
organization and a contact personts) within the organization. The mission, focus of research,
and primary work are detailed for each organization. Publications, where appropriate, are
listed. 'For U.S. organizations, distinctive attributes of the organization, such as research
laboratory equipment or computer technology, are given. For international building research
organizations, the sources of finances are given.
Finally, a key word index can be found on page 213 to direct the reader to organizations
undertaking research in different areas.
Many individuals helped to gather information and put it in a format useful for this
directory. 3.F. Coates, Inc. managed the team that drew together the domestic section. In
addition to Joseph Coates, members of the team, whose assistance is gratefully acknowI-
edged, included Maria Gladziszewsky, Jennifer Jarratt, Darold Johnson, Bill Neufeld, and
Lydia Perry. Karen Burdett, a research summer intern with the Building Research Board,
developed and managed the international survey that resulted in the international section
of this directory. In this effort, she was directed by Noel Raufaste, who was responsible for
international efforts of the board. John Eberhard, former director of the Building Research
Board, directed the overall effort; he was assisted by Gretchen Bank.
Peter Smeallie, Ed'[or
Building Research Board
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Contents
I. UNITED STATES
Association Profiles.................
Corporate Profiles
University Profiles
Architecture and Design, 30
Engineering, 40
Federal Laboratory Profiles
Other Profiles
II. INTERNATIONAL
Argentina, 77
Australia, 77
Austria, 81
Belgium, 84
Brazil, 90
Canada, 91
Chile, 97
China, 98
Columbia, 99
Czechoslovakia, 100
Denmark, 102
Ecuador, 107
Egypt, 108
Federal Republic of Germany, 108
Finland, 120
trance, 123
German Democratic Republic, 127
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Ghana, 128
Greece, 128
Guatemala, 129
Hungary, 129
Iceland, 131
India, 132
Indonesia, 134
Iraq, 135
Ireland, 136
Israel, 137
Italy, 138
Jamaica, 142
Japan, 143
Jordan, 149
Kenya, 150
Korea, 151
The Netherlands, 152
New Zealand, 159
Nigeria, 163
Norway, 163
Pakistan, 166
Philippines, 167
Poland, 168
Portugal, 171
Romania, 173
Singapore, 175
South Africa, 176
Spain, 178
Sweden, 180
Switzerland, 187
Tanzania, 191
Turkey, 191
USSR, 192
United Kingdom, 194
Venezuela, 210
Yugoslavia, 211
INDEX OF ORGANIZATIONS
INDEX OF SUBJECTS..
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