CRDConcept: Resource: institutes, organization, associations

ANSI-- American National Standards Institute: "a private, non-profit organization (501(c)3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity."
ANSI-- American National Standards Institute: "a private, non-profit organization (501(c)3) that administers and coordinates the U.S. voluntary standardization and conformity assessment system. to enhance both the global competitiveness of U.S. business and the U.S. quality of life by promoting and facilitating voluntary consensus standards and conformity assessment systems, and safeguarding their integrity."
ASHRAE-American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers: "the sole purpose of advancing the arts and sciences of heating, ventilation, air conditioning and refrigeration for the public's benefit through research, standards writing, continuing education and publications."
Building Physics and Materials - Technical University of Denmark: "to improve the basic understanding of materialsˇ® properties with the aim of establishing better modelling tools and of providing a basis for the development of better materials, better production techniques and better methods for maintenance and repair."
CCE - Canadian Consulting Engineer: "a magazine for professional engineers working as consultants in the construction field. Published since 1957, it is the only national engineering magazine in Canada that covers all engineering disciplines and all geographic regions"
Centre for Built Environment at University of G?vle: "Its main activities are scientific research and postgraduate training in the fields of building materials, indoor environment, real estate management, housing, architecture and physical planning."
CMHC- Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation: "the federal government's housing agency, is responsible for administering the National Housing", formerly the Central Mortgage and Housing Corporation
CMHC publications- TECHNICAL SERIES: List of technical series sponsored/managed by CMHC, free for download
Concordia University: "Real Education for the Real People" (How about that!)
Construction Technology Updates: "..Practical 4-6 page publications for architects, engineers, specification writers, property managers, builders and building officials. " by IRC/NRC
Danish National Research Database: "database with Danish research - publications, projects and institutions: Literature - Published research. References to periodical articles, books, chapters in books, reports, conferences; Projects - Research projects; and, Profiles - General descriptions of research carried out at institutes, laboratories or departments'
Finnish Research Programme on Environmental Health, SYTTY: "to generate information for the assessment of connections between the environment and human health, to develope procedures, methods and techniques for the promotion of environmental health, ..."
IEA Annex 14: Condensation and Energy: "provided architects, building owners, practitioners as well as researchers, with a better knowledge and understanding of the physical background of these phenomena (critical) conditions for mould growth, material characteristics related to the problems, it has also provided them with better computation models taking air, heat and moisture transfer into account in order to predict properly the phenomena of surface condensation and possible solutions to avoid it."
IRC Publications: "IRCPUBS includes references to all the publications of IRC and its predecessor, the NRC Division of Building Research, since our founding in 1947."
IRC: Institute for Research in Construction: "Canada's research, building code development, and materials evaluation services, .. issues that have a large economic impact, assisting industry to innovate and develop technologies that are safe, durable and cost-effective. "
ISO: International Standards Organization: "a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from more than 140 countries, one from each country. to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity."
NASFA - North American Steel Framing Alliance: "established by the American Iron and Steel Institute in 1998 to rapidly accelerate the use of light gauge steel framing in construction.
NATEQ: LE FONDS NATURE ET TECHNOLOGIES, formerly FCAR, Quebec university funding agency
research institutes in building technology: "links to research institutes in building technology and other engineering sciences. Most of them are selected onto this list because of their R&D on Construction IT"
School of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene - UBC: "research programs into five broad areas: Acoustics, Environmental bioaerosol exposure methods development, Exposure assessment and epidemiology, Occupational and environmental policy, Occupational and environmental respiratory disease.. ". (Research publications
SSHRC - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada: "promotes and supports university-based research and training in the social sciences and humanities."

Related References (7)

EPA: A brief guide to mold, moisture, and your home, by EPA, 2002
ICC: ICC performance code for buildings and facilities, by ICC, 2000
--------: Moisture management: prediction of response of exterior wall elements to climates, by Rousseau, M. Z., 2002
KUL: Overview of simulation research in Belgium and Luxembourg, by Andr¨¦, P., 2000
--------: Report from Task 4 of MEWS Project - Environmental Conditions, Final Report, by Cornick, S., Dalgliesh, A., Said, N., Djebbar, R., Tariku, F. and Kumaran, M. K., 2002
NRC IRC: Summary of Research Contributions Related to Moisture Management of Exterior Wall System (MEWS)-- Modeling, Experiments and Benchmarking, by Maref, W., 2002
future of research institutes: The future of national construction research organizations--scenarios for the changing roles, functions, research agendas and funding, by Seaden, G., 1997

CRDBER, at CBS, BCEE, ENCS, Concordia, June 2014