The Building and Road Research Institute (BRRI) is a research Institute under the
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is South Africa's central and premier scientific research and development organisation. It was established by an act of parliament in 1945 and is situated on its own campus in the cit ...
of
Ghana.
It is based in
Kumasi in the
Ashanti Region of Ghana.
BRRI is a research institute.
History
The institute was established in 1952 and was known as the West African Building Research Institute in
Accra
Accra (; tw, Nkran; dag, Ankara; gaa, Ga or ''Gaga'') is the capital and largest city of Ghana, located on the southern coast at the Gulf of Guinea, which is part of the Atlantic Ocean. As of 2021 census, the Accra Metropolitan District, , ...
.
[ It was made up of building engineers from Ghana and Nigeria. The institute had a name change in 1960 when the institute's members from Nigeria left to form the ]Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute The Nigerian Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) is a Government of Nigeria institute responsible for researching and developing road and building materials for the Nigerian building industry. The institute is under the Federal Ministry o ...
.[
]
Professional bodies of the institute
The institute is made up of various professional groupings. They include architects, engineers, planners, quantity surveyors.[
]
Mandate and name change
In 1964 the government of Ghana expanded the functions of the institution to include road research. The name of the institution was changed to include the new function to the Building and Road Research Institute.[
]
Relocation
In 1995, the institute moved from the KNUST campus to it present site at Fumesua in Kumasi.Crops Research Institute
History
CSIR - Crops Research Institute (CRI) is one of the thirteen (13) research Institutes of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research of Ghana (CSIR). CSIR-CRI evolved from the Specialists' branch of the Gold Coast Department of A ...
(CRI).[
]
Aim of the institute
The institute was established as a research and development organisation in the construction industry with the purposes of offering research and development products and services to the building and road sectors for the development of Ghana.[
]
Researches
The institute works on developing alternative building materials that last longer and cost cheaper for the Ghanaian building industry.
Pozzolana Cement
The institute in the 1990s begun researching into Pozzolana cement, an alternative cement to the Portland cement for building.[ Pozzolana cement cost less than Portland cement. In May, 2007, BRRI and PMC Global Incorporated of ]America
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
signed a contract for the commercial production of Pozzolana.[ The agreement included PMC offering 150,000 dollars to BRRI for expansion of the pilot plant for the production of the pozzolana at the institute and land acquisition for the building of a plant by PMC for the production process.][
]
Collaborations
BRRI has research collaboration with other state and foreign agencies. In 2007, BRRI and the Transport and Road Research Laboratory (TRRL) of the United Kingdom worked together on a program of national studies in Ghana for two years. The purpose of the collaboration was to research into developing building materials that would benefit both bodies.[
]
References
External links
BRRI Homepage
{{authority control
Research institutes established in 1952
Ministries and Agencies of State of Ghana
Building research