Director: Prof. Dr. sc. ing. Andris Cate
Ķīpsalas iela 6A-434, Rīga
+371 67089124
Established in 1994 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering as the Automated Design of Structures Profile Institute, with Professor Dr. habil. sc. ing. Rolands Rikards. In 1999, a separate group of professors for the Automated Design of Structural Structures was established at the Profile Institute, headed by Dr. sc. ing. In 2001, the Profilinstitut was reorganised and renamed the Institute of Materials and Structures. The Institute was expanded with a professorial group on the use of building construction materials, which was taken over from the Institute of Building Production. As a result of the subsequent changes, the Group of Professor of Automated Design of Building Structures was transformed into the Department of Composite Materials and Structures in 2003, and the Group of Professor of Building Materials Applications into the Group of Professor of Building Materials and Construction Products, which was reorganised into the Department of Building Materials and Construction Products in 2014. The Institute of Materials and Structures was headed by prof. R. Rikard, but since 2008 the Director of the Institute is prof. A. Cate.