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Housing & Building Research Center

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	Founded in 1954, the Housing & Building Research Center (HBRC) is an independent government research establishment subordinate to the Minister of Housing, Utilities, and Urban communities.HBRC performs a leading role in enhancing the performance of the building sector through scientific research. Besides an annual government fund, HBRC activities are financed through the construction industry, local and foreign funding agencies. The center is involved in scientific research, technical development, and action planning that adresses the nation's priorities in the field of housing, building, and environmental design. Strategic studies concerning building activities and urban development have been accomplished and numerous national problems investigated and solved.
	-APPLIED RESEARCH -LABORATORY & FIELD TESTING -TECHNICAL CONSULTATIONS -QUALITY CONTROL -ELABORATION OF CODES -TRAINING -DESIGN GUIDELINES -DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH -SCIENTIFIC DISCOURSE -DATA BASE
	-STRENGTH OF MATERIALS AND QUALITY CONTROL -SOIL MECHANICS AND FOUNDATIONS -RAW MATERIALS AND PROCESSING -REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUSTURES -BUILDING PHYSICS AND ENVIRONMENT -HOUSING AND ARCHITECTURE -METALLIC CONSTRUCTION AND THEORY OF STRUCTURES -LABORATORY AND TESTING FACILITIES -STRENGTH OF MATERIALS AND QUALITY CONTROL LAB -REINFORCED CONCRETE TESTING LAB -SOIL MECHANICS & FOUNDATION ENGINEERING LAB -THERMAL LAB -ACOUSTICS LAB -RAW MATERIALS & PROCESSING LAB
	The training center occupies an entire floor in the new building and includes four lecture rooms equipped with overhead and slide projectors, VCR, TV, and on-line data show facilities. Eash lecture room can accomodate 40 trainees at a time, and has an adjacent staff room and waiting area. Short-term training courses are offered in serval domains.
	The auditorium accommodates 200 persons and is served by four rooms for translation facilities. Adjoining the auditorium is a reception lobby from which one may access the potio. The center also has several meeting rooms of different sizes in both the main and the new building. All the above mentioned rooms are air-conditioned and furnished with the necessary audio-visual equipment.
	In the new building, a total area of 800 square meters are dedicated to a permanent display of researsh work, building materials, and design projects at HBRC. The exhibition area is equippedwith sound and light systems, movable partitions, and adjoining services.
	The center includes a professional library with updated books, periodicals, local and international publications in the fields of architecture, housing, urban planning, and the different branches of civil engineering. The reading hall accommodates 40 readers.
	The aim of the information center is to support the building sector, its organisations, companies, and manufacturers, by providing them, through updated data and analysis, with a scientific basis for decision-making. The information center is intended to link the HBRC with other local and international information networks. Besides its database function, the computer facilities of the information center are used for advanced analysis by HBRC staff, and to process HBRC publications.

Housing & Building Research Center - 87 Tahrir St. Dokki Giza 12311- P.O.Box 1770 Cairo -EGYPT

Fax (20)(2)3351564 - Phone (20)(2)3356722/3356853

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Email : hbrc@idsc1.gov.eg