The Institute is conducting research and development activities of public interest in the fields of construction, urbanism, sustainable territorial development and housing, which include: fundamental and applied research - sectoral and pre-normative, for substantiating the technical and economic regulations specific to the fields of activity; elaboration of technical and economic regulations in order to ensure the essential quality requirements imposed on the constructions and related installations, including in order to increase the energy performance of the constructions; technological development; performs specific regulatory activities, respectively documentation, testing, documentation in the fields of activity, audit, prototyping, analysis, synthesis, pilot programs, realization of functional and physical models, as well as in situ experiments of new products and technologies; creation of specialized databases;