National Institute of Construction Management and Research (NICMAR) is a leading educational Institute established by the Indian construction industry. NICMAR is an autonomous, non-government, non-profit academic body, incorporated in India on September 1983 as a 'Society' and a public charitable 'Trust'. It is recognised by Government of India as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
- SIRO. Major academic programmes of the Institute were started with technical assistance from UNDP and academic inputs from the faculty of Loughbourgh and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.The Institute is managed by Board of Trustees, Board of Governors and Academic Council. The Institute is situated at Balewadi, 17 kms. away from the Pune Central Railway Station and seven kms. from Pune University and the Expressway to Bangalore runs along the Institute. It has over one lakh sq.ft. built area on 11 acre plot of land, using the latest materials and technologies having state-of-art facilities blend harmoniously with the landscaped greenery all around. Physical infrastructure of the Campus include work area for 400 support staff, classrooms, seminar rooms, tutorial rooms, faculty cabins, offices, library to hold 70,000 titles, stack areas, reference section, documentation centre, scholars cabins, computerised catalogues, inter-campus library on-line, computer centers for 50 persons each to work at a time, provision of computer on every desk and in every room in hostels with total connectivity, internet and e-mail round the clock, chatrooms, recording and transmission facilities, a guest house, a modern and well appointed kitchen with capacity to serve 1,000 meals per day, students and faculty dining rooms and staff housing units.
