Building Research Center (BRC) was founded in 1969 as one of the centers of the Scientific Research Foundation, which was linked to the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research. The main objectives of the center were to perform research projects in the fields of: building materials and structures through the improvement and utilization of the local sources of raw materials in these fields.
The center continued to perform its policy after being linked to the Scientific Research Council in 1980. Scientific and applied consultancy were provided to many of the major constructional projects in the country.

BRC joined the Military Industrialization Commission in 1989. Since then the scope of the center policy was diverted towards the production of new traditional and non- traditional (i.e. refractories) building materials. Moreover, the center had undertaken the responsibility of the quality control assessment for the rehalibitation of many constructional projects during the post 1991- war period.
BRC was connected with the General Commission for Industrial Scientific Research and Development in 1994.

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