Building Research Establishment (BRE)
Offers expertise in all aspects of the built environment, providing research, consultancy, and testing services to customers.
www.bre.co.uk
Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA)
Represents interests of small regional companies to large nationally known names. Regional associations cover the whole of Britain.
www.ceca.co.uk
Construction Clients' Forum
Researching to help small and occasional clients obtain higher value. It also studies the cost and avoidance of latent defects.
www.construction-clients.org.uk
Geotechnical Research Group
Areas of study include contaminated land and pollution transport, frozen ground and ice, ground improvement and construction processes, and soil dynamics.
www-civ.eng.cam.ac.uk/geotech.htm