Center for Innovative Building Technologies

CIBTech empowers to build homes for rural poor

Center for Innovative Building Technologies

CIBTech empowers to build homes for rural poor

Center for Innovative Building Technologies

CIBTech empowers to build homes for rural poor


Center for Innovative Building Technologies

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Center for Innovative Building Technologies (CIBTech) is the passionate story of a retired CSIR (India) scientist Mr N G BHAGAVAN, who dreamt the ambitious vision of developing and promoting disaster resilient shelters as affordable housing, not only for India, but also in all countries across the globe! The story starts from 1993’s Indian rural earthquake related tragedy. Disheartened by thousands of fatalities caused by this moderate (6.2-Magnitude) Latur’s earthquake of Maharashtra state, a sponsored research project on earthquake resistant building technologies, was successfully completed by 1998, in CSIR – Structural Engineering Research Centre (CSIR-SERC), Chennai, India. In the next three years, towards technology transfer strategy, few technical papers have been produced and passionate journey of technology dissemination is taken-off.

Then happened the disastrous Gujarat (another Indian State) earthquake in 2001, and that has given sleep-less nights to reach-out to various NGOs and to effectively undertake the technology dissemination commitments, in the reconstruction phase. That has been ‘the journey of life’ for our founder of CIBTech / chairman cum managing director, Mr N G BHAGAVAN, which has inspired the vision to plan for establishing CIBTech.

In the first couple of decades of new millennium, the reinforced masonry and confined masonry systems are developed and promoted as disaster resistant construction technologies. Passionate and volunteer engineering support is offered to various international NGOs during the reconstruction phases in Philippines after the 2013’s deadly mega-super cyclone and Nepal’s 2015 earthquakes.

Establishment of CIBTech by 2021, for developing and promoting innovative building technologies, is the culmination in this story. CIBTech works with absolute passion of dedication, for the cause of elevating living standards of common people, with water-proof / fire-proof / disaster-resistant / affordable housing technologies! In the Divine shadow of wonderful Spiritual Masters of Heartfulness Organisation, and with their exclusive blessings, the CIBTech grows to serve the humanitarian objectives of wealth creation and wealth distribution among the deserving communities across the globe.