Establishment

Institute IRMA was established on November 11, 1992 by share company IRI (Engineering Development Innovation) as a private enterprise for the research and development of building materials and products as well as development of technology for their production. At the beginning the Institute was accredited as a R&D organisation and listed under number 85 by the Ministry of Science and Technology of Republic Slovenia in their list. The data from this list you can see in SICRIS.

Institute IRMA is part of IRI system given in the next scheme:

Share company IRI (Engineering Development Innovation) is a company primarily dealing with:

• sale of technology and know how
• production and sale of fibres for fibres reinforced concretes
• production and sale of admixtures for high performance concretes
• sale of testing equipment for concrete laboratories

REINAL d.o.o. is the sister company dealing with:

• carrying out of special construction works
• carrying out of repair works

Activities of Institute IRMA

The activities of the institute are research, development, testing, consulting, and engineering. The Institute specializes in concrete, concrete technology and concrete products. It's research and development is primarily in the field of cement and polymer binded composite materials. The majority of composite materials used today are specialized high performance concretes. The Institute also devotes it's attention to the questions of recycling harmless industrial and building waste materials.

In regards to consulting and engineering, the Institute provides technical support and solutions to complex problems in concrete technology. It also provides technical supervision and quality control of materials. Of special interrest in this field is the use of the most advanced materials and solutions in the repair and restoration of concrete structures. In this capacity the scientists of the Institute deteremine the condition of the structure. After determining the couses of damage, they design the repair procedure as well as provide technical supervision of the most delicate stages.

IRMA Institute organisation

IRMA Institute organisation is given in the next scheme:

Testing Laboratory 

Testing laboratory carries out the tests of concretes, mortars, concrete and clay products, aggregates and stones. Testing laboratory is equiped with the modern testing and laboratory instruments and is accredited for testing of concretes, mortars, concrete and clay products according to SIST EN ISO/IEC 17025 by Slovenian Accreditation - Accreditation certificate No. L-019 from January 22^th, 2003.

Presentation of Institute's achivements 

Institute presents its achivements on the national and international congresses and in the national and international scientific journals. In Slovenia Institute organise each year traditional Slovenian Concrete Colloquiums

Institute Memebership in the professional organisations and associations

• Titular member of RILEM - International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Materials and Structures, code SI.1059
• Member of American Concrete Institute International, Member No. 911220
• Member of CIRIA Construction Industry Research and Information Association, UK, Member No. C01736
• Memeber of ICPIC - International Congress on Polimers in Concrete, USA
• Meber of SILAB - Slovenian Laboratories at ZITS- Engineer and Technicien Union of Slovenia.

Members of IRMA staff are members of different Technical committees from RILEM and Slovenian standardisation and a members of Slovenian Material Association.

International cooperation

In the frame of scientific and technical cooperation between Slovenia and other states Institute IRMA collaborates with:

• GIT Institut za građevinarstvo, građevinske materijale i nemetale, Tuzla, BIH, doc.dr.Ahmet Imamović
• Center for Advanced Cement-based Materials, Northwestern University , Illinois, USA, prof. Surendra P. Shah
• Materials Department of Civil Engineering Faculty, University of Zagreb, Croatia, prof. dr. Velimir Ukrainczyk,
• Institut of Technology and Organisation of Building Production, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Warszaw University of Technology, Poland, prof. dr. Lech Czarnecki.
• Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung BAM, Berlin, Germany, Department of Durability of Building Materials, dr. Christiane Maierhofer
• Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering University of Sheffield, UK, prof. dr. N. R. Swamy,
• Institut für konstruktive Wasserbau, Technische Universität Wien, Austia, prof. dr. Herbert Lindsbauer,
• Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung BAM, Berlin, Germany, Department of Building Materials, prof. dr. Matthias Maultzsch

 IRMA is cooperating through contracts with:

• Department of Architecture, College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Fukushima-Ken, Japon, prof.dr.Yoshihiko Ohama.
• Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institut für Berufswissenschaften im Bauwesen, prof. dr. Klaus Littmann

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