ENBRI (European Network Of Building Research Institutes) was founded in 1988 with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. Its membership includes the principal building research institutes of Member States of the European Union and of the European Economic Space and since 2000 also those of the European Candidate Members.

It's objectives are:

• Combining the technical skills and resources of the individual institutes in a network of building research facilities and information sources
• Co-operating in advising the Commission of the European Union, companies and consultants, and users and clients of the building industry throughout Europe. ENBRI's advice covers all technical aspects of building materials, components, systems and services
• Providing advice on the free movement of construction products within the Single European Market and on the development of innovative products and/or services. ENBRI's services range from short term actions for individual clients, to the development and execution of long term research projects for major European institutions
• Sharing the resources of their most outstanding test and research facilities to offer a large range of services to companies, to consultants, and to users and clients of the building
• Encourage the exchange of information between Member-Institutes and the collaboration in common research projects. Each Member-Institute can involve other relevant organisations in the preparation of advice and in supporting research programmes, as appropriate
• Co-operate through the European Economic Interest Grouping “ENBRI Development” to develop and execute for clients special testing programmes and research and development programme

ENBRI is an active member of ECCREDI and is involved in the thematic network E-Core.

(for more information please visit the website on ENBRI: http://www.enbri.org/)

In the ENBRI Newsletter of May 2003, an article on the ECO-Serve project was published. The newsletter can be downloaded here.