Welcome to Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute Nashik

• This organization has been established in the year 1959. The institute mainly conducts applied research related to field problems of various projects. In the water resources and public works department of the state, construction materials testing works and suggesting solutions to regional level problems are done. Similarly, applied research and testing of construction materials are done related to work coming from government, semi-government and private organizations. 

• Research and tests in the following subjects are conducted in the institute.

(A)Soil Mechanics Section: In this section further tests of engineering properties of soil are carried out.

• Liquid Limit, Plastic Limit
• Mechanical Analysis
• Specific Gravity
• Compaction
• Permeability
• Shear Test (Small & Large)
• Plate Bearing Test.

(B) Material Testing Section In this section further various tests of construction materials are carried out.

• Cement, sand, stone, bricks, gravel, filter sand, pipe, lime, fly ash,
• 900 mm diameter large concrete or construction cylinders and 2000 tons A capacity device is also used to test the compressive strength. Different types as per requirement of field works Mix design is done through this section.

 (C) Highway Research Department No.1: Through this department, the roads in the state as well as outside the state         various tests and research works are carried out in this regard. Conceptualization of additional thickness of existing             road surface using Benkalman Beam Deflection Test

• Measurement of Roughness Index (Roughness Index) of road surface by ARUR machine     
• Conducting ARUR test for private roads as mandated by the government
• Conceptualization of thickness of new road surface
• Conducting applied road research works
• Conducting tests of road design materials.

(D) Civil Works Maintenance division: Maharashtra Engineering Research Institute, through this department Maharashtra Engineering Training Academy, Central design Organization, Planning and Hydrology, construction and maintenance of residential and non-residential buildings and entire MERI area.

(E) Administration Department: All the administrative work of Maharashtra Institute of Engineering Research is done through this department.

(F) Resource Engineering Centre: Through this department, further research works are carried out in the state as well as abroad.

• Survey of Reservoirs: Bathymetry and Remote Sensing
• Crop Counting and (Ctrl)-Verification (Crop Mapping)
• Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) etc. Works
• Measurement of green cover area
• Using remote sensing technology to carry out siltation survey of reservoirs of projects in other states also by the organization
• Development of mobile system for mapping of irrigation projects in collaboration with Maharashtra Remote Sensing Center (MRSAC) Nagpur.
• Uploading the information of large and medium reservoirs in Maharashtra on the Bhuvan website by Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).