Founded in 1953, China Academy of Building Research (CABR) used to be affiliated to the Ministry of Construction. Since the year 2000, it has transferred from a public research institution into a technology-based enterprise, affiliated to the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC). In December 2017, CABR completed its new reform with a corporation system. Its economic type is state-owned and its registered capital is 1.2 billion yuan.

CABR is now the largest comprehensive R&D institution in the building industry of China. It is one of the authorized institutions in the building industry to confer PhD degrees and Master degrees, with a post-doctoral program for civil engineering. It has a large number of high-caliber personnel including academicians of China Academy of Engineering and China Academy of Science, design masters, hundreds of well-known experts in various fields of the building industry, and young and middle-aged technical talents.

CABR has always taken it as its responsibility to serve for the public good and promote the technological development of the building sector. Targeting at building engineering and focusing on application and development research, CABR is committed to solving key technical problems in engineering construction, takes in charge of the development and management of main technical standards and codes, carries out research on  common, basic and public technologies for the building sector, and exercises quality supervision and testing of engineering construction, air-conditioning equipment, solar water heaters, elevators, chemical building materials, and building energy efficiency. CABR’s research and business covers 70 fields including building structure, soil foundation, earthquake-resistance engineering, building environment and energy efficiency, building software, construction mechanization, building fire-prevention, construction technology and building material. In recent years, CABR has focused on new technologies such as building energy efficiency, green building, eco-city, smart city, sponge city, building industrialization, residential industrialization, existing building renovation, and BIM. CABR has two R&D bases in Beijing and Langfang, of which Beijing Tongzhou Base has the State Key Laboratory of Building Safety and Environment with labs of earthquake engineering, curtain walls, wind tunnels, fire prevention, building materials, building environment and energy efficiency. Over the past 60 years, CABR has made great contributions to the scientific and technological advancement of China’s building industry with its remarkable achievements.

Since its transformation into a technology-based enterprise, CABR has been market-oriented and committed to the research and development of new technologies and products. With its comprehensive advantages of technologies, CABR has realized constant growth in technology, economic benefits and overall strength. Business activities include construction engineering survey, design, engineering contracting and professional equipment and materials manufacturing, covering the entire industrial chain of housing construction such as survey, planning, design, construction, supervision, testing, material production, machinery and equipment manufacturing and information technology. Thus, CABR provides complete solutions for complex, over-limit and landmark projects in city construction.

In this new historical period, abiding by its core values of “contribution to society, pursuit of lead, promotion of quality, and development in harmony” and its management tenet of “integrity, cooperation, innovation and benefit”, CABR will continue to improve its core competitive strength, play a more important role in the building sector, and strive to become a leader in the scientific and technological development of China’s building industry.