National Building Research Organisation

National Building Research Organization the only government institution which is composed with multi disciplinary engineering fields consisting of Geotechnical Engineering, Building Material, Land Slide Services, Human Settlement and Project Management.  This culture within a one organization is very rare opportunity for a client working in the field of Engineering.

Geotechnical Engineering

Market

In the past soil testing was carried out only for the multi storey buildings and with the development of the construction industry soil testing has become as a must prior to commencement of any construction work and land development work for safe and economical construction. Not only for the construction industry, has soil testing become a vital component prior commencement of any land slide mitigation work.  Therefore, all government and most of the private sector construction industry show great trend to get done soil investigation prior to commencement of the constructions. In the land development projects, clients always seek NBRO expert knowledge for supervision of land filling.

Supply

Geotechncial Engineering Division of NBRO can cater for the requirement in the field of geotechnical engineering with its in-house facilities and expert knowledge. We have five drilling machines  including other small scale testing facilities such as augering, Mackintosh probing, field density testing and well equipped soil testing laboratory and expert knowledge for to cater the requirement in the field of geotechnical engineering.

According to the new procurement process implemented by the government, almost all the projects have to be obtained through a competitive bidding process. This could lead to a decrease in the number of the projects awarded to us as a result of our inability to bid at competitive prices due to our high overheads. Present development of the private sector in the field of geotechnical engineering has made a considerable effect on the market of the geotechnical engineering division due to their high cost comparatively of cost of private sector.

On the other hand, lack of senior geotechnical staff was a major drawback when undertaking geotechnical projects during last year. In addition, the frequent breakdowns of field vehicles caused many delays.

However, laboratory of GED gets more jobs because most of the private sector organizations do not have such laboratory facilities in-house. But, almost all equipment using in GED laboratory are very old and are to be updated now.

Land Slide Studies  & Human Settlement

Market

Increasing the awareness of people living on hill slopes regarding the associated risk with the land slide and their contribution for risk mitigation and resettlement has been opened market for land slide studies and human settlement . In this connection, government and personal request always come to NBRO for land slide studies for mitigation work and resettlement  as the only government organization which could provide solution for such problem in the country

Supply

NBRO has the professional staff for providing the pre awareness about land slide risk by conduction workshops, all mitigation work and resettlement work. For cater county requirement, NBRO has started four sub offices at  Kalutara, Matale , Matara,  Kandy and Padiyapella  covering the project areas. Only restriction for this is work is insufficient professional staff in the organization to cater the country requirement.

Project Management

Market

In construction industry and the development works, there has been raised a requirement to manage the each and every construction project to complete to the target. For this, it is required to manage the work achieve quality, cost and time. for safe and economical construction.  Therefore, government and most of the private sector construction industry show great trend to get done proper work by project management.. In the land development projects, clients always seek NBRO expert knowledge for project management in land filling project.  Not only the above requirements, there has been a trend to get the solutions for building settlement due to various reasons.

Supply

NBRO has the professional staff in the field of project management to cater the requirement providing tender documents, BOQs and condition reports.  Only restriction for this work is insufficient professional staff in the organization to cater the country requirement.

Building Material

Market

Part of the project management in the construction industry is assure the quality of the building materials is vital important. Therefore, almost all of the construction projects in the government and private sector tend to test the quality of the material (physical and mechanical) use for in the construction industry prior to use them at the site. Designing of concrete mixes, site test on fresh concrete, non destructive test on structures and, investigation on clay for building material are some of other market requirement.  In this connection, NBRO report always a must to certify the material for construction

Supply

NBRO has the experience professional staff in the testing of building material and all the simple and so sophisticated machines are available at NBRO for render requirement of country in the sector of building material testing. NBRO can supply almost 100% of the country requirement.

Environmental Engineering

Market

Water is essential to sustain life. Water intended for human consumption must be safe from organisms and concentrations of chemicals that are hazardous to health. Water is a carrier for bacteria. Presence of coliforms water in signal for dangerous pathogen pollution. Urbanization results in release of waste water and faecal matter into water bodies and pollution. Therefore, quality assessment of water is a must prior to use water as drinking water. On the other hand, environmental air pollution also an impact on human and to be controlled. Furthermore, in the construction industry, there is a trend to check the quality of  ground water and soil for sound concrete work.

Supply

NBRO has the experience professional staff in the environmental pollution assessment (air and water) and for render the requirement of construction industry making assessment of chemical content of soil and ground water. However, due to high price of chemicals use for the testing has make considerable impact on the supply.