Today FSBI "NIISF RAASN" is the only state scientific budget institute in the Russian Federation, which is engaged in fundamental research in the field of construction. The Institute has a unique scientific-experimental base, which has no analogues in our country and abroad and includes climatic and acoustic chambers, stands and other equipment for simulation of acoustic, dynamic, temperature-humidity and other effects on building structures and their elements.
The scientific staff of the R&D Institute of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences is unique. The institute currently has one State Prize winner and 25 winners of the Russian Federation Government Prize in Science and Technology, 4 RAASN academicians, 4 RAASN corresponding members, 16 doctors of technical sciences, more than 50 candidates of technical sciences.
In 2017, in the structure of the institute appears "University of the Ministry of Construction", in which the programs of additional professional education are retrained specialists engineering staff for the construction industry, including "digital technologies". More than 2,000 people have been successfully retrained at NIISF.