Objectives

1. To promote development, production, standardisation and large-scale application of cost-effective innovative building materials and construction technologies in housing and building sector.

2.To promote new waste-based building materials and components through technical support and encouraging entrepreneurs to set up production units in urban and rural regions.

3.To develop and promote methodologies and technologies for natural disaster mitigation & management and retrofitting/ reconstruction of buildings including disaster resistant design and planning practices in human settlements.

4. To provide S & T services to professionals, construction agencies and entrepreneurs in selection, evaluation, upscaling, design engineering, skill-upgradation,  and marketing for technology transfer, from lab to land, in the area of building materials and construction.