PWRI Outline

History

Established as the Road Materials Testing Department in the Ministry of Internal Affairs

May 1921

Reorganized as the Civil Engineering Laboratory

Sep. 1922

Aug. 1937

Founded as the Testing Laboratory of the Civil Engineering Department, Hokkaido Prefectural Government

Sep. 1947

Became independent as the Hokkaido Civil Engineering Institute

Renamed as the First Technical Research Institute of the Construction Bureau, Prime Minister's Office

Jan. 1948

Renamed as the Public Works Research Institute, Ministry of Construction

July 1948

Merger with the Engineering Staff Training Center of the Ministry of Transportation

July 1949

July 1951

Attached to the newly established Hokkaido Development Bureau and renamed as Civil Engineering Research Institute

Relocated all the facilities to and integrated at the new Tsukuba Science City

Mar. 1979

Apr. 1988

Reorganized the entire body

Renamed as the Public Works Research Institute of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport

Jan. 2001

Established the Independent Administrative Agency Public Works Research Institute

Apr. 2001

Renamed the Independent Administrative Institution Civil Engineering Research Institute of Hokkaido

Apr. 1, 2006 Integrated as the Independent Administrative Agency Public Works Research Institute, not directly belonging to the ministry

Apr. 2006	Established as the International Centre for Water Hazard and Risk Manegement (ICHARM)
Apr. 2008	Renamed the Center for Advanced Engineering Structural Assessment and Research (CAESAR)