Previous achievements in R&D by the Institute include:
– Development of cheaper alternative building materials from locally abundant raw materials for housing
– Pozzolana from agro-industrial wastes like rice husk, sugar cane baggash
– Roofing sheets from coir fibre and
– Road materials
– Building physics and thermal comfort studies, lighting, ventilation, acoustics and solar energy
– Manual Brickmaking machine
– Electrohydraulic Brickmaking machine
– Interlocking Blocking machines
– Laterite Grinding and mixing machines
– Paving Stone making machine
– Pedestrian Roller compactor
– Fibre Concrete Roof Tile making machine
– Basic Remote Sensing Techniques for Terrain Evaluation
– Subgrade Soils maps of Nigeria
– Construction Tools for Bricklaying and Plastering
– Stonecrete Block Technology
RECENT ACHIEVEMENTS
Tremendous achievements have been recorded by the institute recently among but not limited to the following:
– Investigations into several Building collapses all across the Country
– Preliminary Survey of Some limestone Deposits in Nigeria
– Preliminary Survey of some Clay Deposits in Nigeria
– Design and Fabrication of Water-Bitumen Spraying Machine
– Design and Fabrication of Cube, Beam Moulds and Slump Cone Apparatus
– Assessment of Speed trends during Day-time and Night-time of Nigerian Drivers
– Construction of Skill Acquisition Centres in Ogun, Plateau, Akwa- Ibom, Benue and Bayelsa States
– Establishment of New Laboratory at the Administrative Headquarters
– Establishment of Library at the Administrative Headquarters.
– Establishment of Pozzolana Cement Pilot Plant at the National Laboratory Complex.