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... TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK DK 2800 Lyogby CONTACT: Torben C Hansen, Director, Building Materials Laboratory MISSION: Education, research, and testing to advance test and measurement methods, building standards, and building practices.
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From page 108...
... Kossatz, Director MISSION: To improve wood as a raw material; to develop wood-based materials; to investigate wood's practical application; and to undertake research on adhesives and surface coatings for wood and wood-based products, process automation, properties and use of wood-based building materials and structural members, and investigations on environmental pollution (analyses of emissions)
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... W Becker, President MISSION: To establish test methods and perform materials research and chemical safety engineering.
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... RESEARCH ASSOCIATION FOR BUILDING AND HOUSING Silberbugstrasse 160 7000 Stuttgart 1 CONTACT: J Herkommer, Chairman of Board MISSION: To serve as the central source for providing technical assistance to the building community.
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From page 111...
... INFORMATION CENTER FOR REGIONAL PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION (IRB) Nobelstrasse 12 D 7000 Stuttgart 80 CONTACT: W.Wissmann,Director MISSION: To serve as the central information agency for building construction, town planning, and regional planning and housing.
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From page 112...
... INSTITUTE OF BUILDING RESEARCH (IFB) An der Markuskirche 1 D 3000 Hannover 1 CONTACT: Herbert Menkhoff, Director MISSION: To serve as the central source for building research.
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... Martin, Director MISSION: To serve members with laboratory and testing expertise. PRIMARY WORK: Performs research and testing in reinforced concrete structures, methods of analysis, durability, and test methods.
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... PUBLICATIONS: Research reports, technical papers, and user manuals. AACHEN TECHNICAL UNIVERSIlY, INSTITUTE FOR BUILDING RESEARCH Schinkelstrasse 3 D-5100 Aachen CONTAC[: H
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... DARMSTADT TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, INFORMATION PROCESSING IN BUILDING AND CIVIL ENGINEERING ORGANIZATIONS (IVB) Petersenstrasse 13 61000 Darmstadt CONTACT: He~zSchwarz,Director MISSION: To serve as technical laboratory resource to the building community.
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... Savidis, Director MISSION: Education and research work in civil engineering and consulting. PRIMARY WORK: Lectures and seminars in soil mechanics, dynamics, and foundation engineering; theoretical and experimental research activities, e.g., in earthquake engineering with numerical investigations and model tests on a shake table; consulting and laboratory investigations.
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... BRAUNSCHWEIG TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, INSTITllIE FOR STATICS (STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS) Beethovenstrasse 51 D-3300 Braunschweig CONTACT: Heinz Duddeck MISSION: Research institute for analysis of civil engineering and underground structures.
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... PUBLICATIONS: Mitteilungen aus dem Institute fur Baustoff/alnde und Materialprufungder Universitat Ha'' n over. UNIVERSITY OF HANNOVER, INSTITUTE FOR HYDRAULICS AND COASTAL ENGINEERING Nienburger Strasse 4 D-3000 Hannover CONTACT: Managing Director MISSION: Execution of scientific studies in hydraulics and coastal engineering; special interest in waves, tides and sedimentation, harbours, estuaries and coastal protection, hydraulic structures, hydraulic modeling.
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... Ramm, Director MISSION: To provide academic education and serve as a research laboratory. PRIMARY WORK: Performs research in construction management, organization of construction, energy use, cost control and structural analysis, computer programming, stability of structures, structural optimization, project management, and organization of construction companies, and controlling.
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