Housing and Building National Research Center

The Housing and Building National Research Center is the beacon of science and knowledge center. HBRC includes eleven institutes which are: Building Materials and Quality Control Research Institute, Concrete Construction Research Institute, Structure and Metallic Construction Research Institute, Soil Mechanics and Geo-technical Engineering Research Institute, Sanitary and Environmental Engineering Research Institute, Construction Engineering and Construction Management Research Institute, Architecture and Housing Research Institute, Raw Materials and Technological Processing Research Institute, Building Physics and Environment Research Institute, Electro-mechanical Research Institute.

On 21 June, 1954, a cooperation agreement on the establishment of the Institute for building researches in cooperation with the Department of Foreign Affairs of the United States of America Government was signed. Act No. 495 was issued on 23 September 1954 to establish the Institute for building researches in Egypt as an independent organization.

At the end of year 1956, The U.S. government suspended its contribution to support the Institute and the Egyptian government has kept the Institute.

In 1964 the Institute was considered a qualitative institute for Building Research subjected to the Financial and management Regulations of the National Research Center and several organizational amendments were made and remained affiliated with the Ministry of Scientific Research.

In 1971, decision number 1871 was issued from the Prime Minister stating the affiliation of the Institute to the Ministry of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development.

In 1977, presidential decree number 46 for the year 1871 was issued to establish the general organization of the Housing, Building, and Urban Planning Center and its Head quarter in Cairo affiliated to the Minister of Housing and subjected to Act No. 46 for the year 1973.

On 16 February 2005, two presidential decrees No. 63 and No. 64 for the year 2005 were issued to reorganize the Housing and Building Center and its name become Housing and Building National Research Center affiliated to the Minister of Housing, Utilities and Urban Development. Besides, its headquarter in Cairo and the Chairman of HBRC has the right to establish other branches in governorates and New Cities.