Building Materials and Technology Promotion Council (BMTPC)

It was formed in the year 1990 as an autonomous body by Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs. It was established with the objective of bridging the gap between research and development and large scale application of new building material technologies.

• Its objectives include –
  • Building Materials & Construction Technologies: To promote development, standardisation, mechanisation and large scale field application of proven innovative and emerging building materials and technologies in the construction sector.
  • Capacity Building and Skill Development: To work as a Training Resource Centre for capacity building and promotion of good construction practices to professionals, construction agencies, artisans and marketing of building technologies from lab to land.
  • Disaster Mitigation & Management: To promote methodologies and technologies for natural disaster mitigation, vulnerability & risk reduction and retrofitting/ reconstruction of buildings and disaster resistant planning for human settlements.
  • Project Management & Consultancy: To undertake project management and consultancy services including appraisal, monitoring and third party inspection of housing projects under the various Central/Statistics Schemes.
• It too publishes annual reports stating achievements and progress made in above heads.