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RSS is the largest applied research institution, consultation and technical service provider in Jordan, with more than 600 members of staff. There are
10 technical centres and departments housing 38 specialized laboratories:
There are also three supporting departments: Administrative, Financial, and Marketing,
International and Public Relations.
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- Construction engineering.
- Maintenance & repair of medical equipment.
- Environmental studies.
- Water & wastewater treatment.
- Radiation monitoring.
- Hazardous & solid waste management.
- Air quality management & control.
- Information Technology.
- Chemical analysis of gases, organic & inorganic substances.
- Physical, chemical, and mechanical characterization of metals, plastics, food materials, and products.
- Non-destructive testing.
- Quality control & certification of products.
RSS has technical staff with professional certifications capable of offering specialized consultations, technical services, and training.
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RSS was established in 1970 as an independent, not-for-profit non-governmental Organization (NGO).
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RSS is mainly engaged in scientific and technological R&D, consultation, training, and various support services.
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RSS is an independent entity with its own Board of Trustees, which is chaired by His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal.
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RSS is located on a picturesque 85-acre prime site in Al-Jubaiha in northern Amman.
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The floor area at RSS is 32,000 m², housing a wide array of R&D and technical and support facilities, including 38 accredited specialized laboratories.
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RSS offers both the public and private sectors unique resources and a wide range of project implementation expertise.
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There are hundreds of researchers and technical support staff.
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RSS has established co-operation relations with a great many local and international organizations, thus boasting a solid relational capital.
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RSS technical centres are members of well-established international consortia.
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Solidity & reliability are the main strengths of RSS
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To support the development process in Jordan through R&D to strengthen the role of SMEs in Jordan’s economy.
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To promote itself as a reference technical institution in Jordan and the region.
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To expand its role as a certification body for both skilled manpower and industrial products.
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To strengthen co-operation with similar institutions to promote mutual interests.
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To develop human resources.
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To encourage and support the start-up, incubation and development of innovation-led knowledge-based businesses.
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To carry out studies and applied scientific research related to industry and environment, and to the various areas of development.
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To conduct economic and technical feasibility and analytical studies with regard to development projects that fall within RSS scope of competence.
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To carry out joint research with scientific, production-oriented and service institutions at the national, regional and international levels.
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To offer technological consultations and services, calibration and conformity assessment of locally produced and imported products.
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To develop its laboratories, provide them with up-to-date equipment and orient them towards serving the objectives of scientific and technological research and the needs of public and private sectors.
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To co-operate with agencies concerned with setting national technical standards and specifications and provide technical services that facilitate their application and ensure proper quality control of goods and materials.
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To upgrade human capabilities and technical skills through the provision of distinctive training opportunities.
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To contribute to the transfer and adaptation of appropriate technologies to the benefit of industrial and socio-economic development in Jordan.
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To co-operating with local, regional and international organizations in science and technology for the purpose of networking and joint venturing.
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To offer research facilities to entrepreneurs to enable them to start technological research, joint development and new businesses.
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RSS has a cadre of over one hundred technical employees with expertise in the various fields of civil and structural engineering and building technology. Besides its considerable in-house expertise, RSS has a network of connections in academia and the building industry inside and outside Jordan that it can call upon to supplement its range of expertise, to offer integrated services and consultations.
RSS can undertake major construction projects, from housing complexes to reconstruction of damaged buildings
RSS has for long been entrusted with maintenance of public-sector medical equipment, and has joined forces with the Ministry of Health to create a national centre for management and maintenance of (15,000) biomedical devices in public hospitals. RSS is one of the leading electronic design centres in Jordan, where real software and hardware design of utility systems take place. RSS also provides electrical and physical calibration services to the industrial, mercantile, and other vital sectors of society, and verifies the compliance of electrical products to national and international standards.
RSS has been active in the field of environmental management and protection since 1976. In addition to water quality management, RSS is a house of expertise in major aspects that directly affect public health and the environment.
Since its establishment in 1970, RSS has been providing technical services, consultation, and specialized training to both the public & private sectors locally, regionally, and internationally. These services have covered the various areas of IT.
RSS can contribute to the reconstruction of engineering and manufacturing industries, oil industry, water pipeline networks, and so on, by providing consultations, inspections, testing, calibration, and training.
High quality technical & consultancy services are offered to a variety of chemical industry firms locally and abroad. A major task in this field is the development of standards and specifications for the industry in co-operation with the Jordan Institution for Standards and Metrology (JISM). A number of projects and studies are conducted annually, particularly in the area of food and agrochemical residues.
RSS has a team of economists specialized in conducting feasibility, socio-economic, and market analysis studies. Examples of these studies are ‘Build Operate Transfer (BOT)’, ‘Competitiveness of Jordanian Products’, ‘The Economy of Tourism’, ‘E-Commerce’, ‘Water & Agriculture Studies’, and so on.
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RSS renders many services to Jordanian society and the region at large in its specialist fields. It actively supports the Jordanian government by formulating opinions on issues involving research and technology policy, and is an adviser on new issues and controversial problems (such as the chronic water shortage, food and beverages, technical specifications, etc.). It represents Jordan on scientific and technical committees and boards and helps with the development of policies, strategies, and measures.
RSS also provides expert opinion on such issues as building codes. Its research activity also draws attention to health and social problems, for example contamination of mothers’ milk by pesticides. The training that RSS offers is also of substantive benefit to society, for example the ICDL certification programme is helping to create a new class of computer-literate teachers and public employees, which would reflect positively on the education system and government bureaucracy. RSS is active in building schools in remote areas with convenient specifications. Such projects are usually shunned by the private sector because of low profitability.
Through its membership on dozens of scientific, industrial, and academic boards, RSS exercises a variety of tasks in which its staff function as independent experts. In the scope of technical committee work, for example, standards and specifications are prepared and developed which are essential to the safety and well-being of society.
To carry out studies and applied scientific research related to industry and environment, and to the various areas of development.
In the environment sector, several technical studies are conducted on water and air monitoring and assessment in Jordan and one study was conducted for the Yemeni government to assess the actual ambient air quality in the area of the proposed Ma’rib power station. In the Building sector, RSS issued technical studies such as “Defining Means and Criteria for Improving Thermal Performance and Minimizing Energy Consumption in Buildings”, a continuous project since 2001. In addition, the national building codes, preliminary drafts for the updated codes of fire alarm systems, fire protection, building water supply and the preliminary draft of the new fire fighting systems code, have all been approved by the Codes Technical Committee. Furthermore, RSS took the responsibility to raise awareness of the dangers of earthquakes and is taking active steps to evaluate earthquake hazards and devise methods of mitigating their environmental impact.
In the Information Technology sector, several projects and studies have been conducted, such as Universal Networking Language Project (UNL), a continuous project that aims at eliminating language barriers, and multimedia for cultural heritage. In engineering industries sector (mechanical and electrical), RSS conducted several studies, such as development of spare parts manufacturing in industrial sectors, and developed a computerized electronic control system for a greenhouse in Jerash.
In the Chemical Industries sector, RSS conducted several studies with direct social impacts, the most important one being the extent of chlorinated pesticide residue in mothers’ milk. The final report of the second phase was issued during 2002.
In the socio-economic field, RSS conducted a number of studies and issued several booklets, like Directory of Support Services for Small and Medium Enterprises in Jordan, E-Commerce: The Jordanian Experience, Labour Market Requirements of Computer Science Qualifications, and The US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement and Qualified Industrial Zones as a Model for Industrial Development: the Case of Jordan and its Implication for the Middle East Region.
RSS provides a wide range of technical consultations and services in the areas of its specialization. In the Environment sector, RSS renders numerous technical consultations and services in the field of environment management related to water and air quality, environment impact assessment, and environmental auditing. It also conducts technical consultations dealing with ISO14000 and ISO17025. Moreover, RSS provides many consultations in the field of industrial wastewater treatment, assessment of air quality and emissions from industries, as well as laboratory and field tests.
In the Building sector, designing and preparation of drawings and tender documents for Ministry of Education schools using Building System (5) and supervising the construction of new schools are examples of RSS role in supporting the educational process in Jordan.
In the IT sector, the major services were application system development, which involve detailed system study, analysis, design, programming, testing, system integration, data conversion, and user training, in addition to system maintenance, for several institutions such as the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Housing & Public Work.
In the Industrial sector, the major services are: laboratory testing, project supervision, design, drawings, software development, follow-up and implementation of software systems, evaluating of patent proposals, and manufacturing spare parts for local industries. This year RSS introduced a new test on plastic identity cards, and other personal cards in accordance with international specifications.
RSS participates in the editing and reviewing committees for many of the Jordanian standards. In the Building sector, RSS participated in the editing and reviewing of 16 Jordanian standards. In the industries sector, RSS participated in drafting and amending and the modification of 11 Jordanian standards. In other sectors, RSS participated in the national committee for the safety of food, and the higher committee of water, conducted quality control of local building material, ready mix concrete, paints, mineral oils, food staff, medical and industrial gases, cigarettes, fertilizers, salt, tooth paste, paper, textile, carpets, and baby towels.
In this field, RSS provides a wide range of training courses in the areas of specialization of its different centres. In the IT sector, many long-term training courses are conducted, for example in:
- Software Engineering.
- Multimedia.
- Web Computing.
- Networking Design.
Many participants from local institutions from the private and public sectors and from Arab countries benefit from these courses. RSS is also accredited by UNESCO to offer ICDL training and testing, which facilities are taken avail of by hundreds of teachers and government employees every year.
In the industrial sector, RSS offers different training courses, for example:
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Heat treatment of ferrous metals and alloys.
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Guide to the expression of uncertainty in measurement and calibration.
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Radiation protection.
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Process improvement techniques in industry (KAIZEN).
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Welding technology.
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Quality control for textile products.
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Quality control in the field of mineral oils.
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Human Affiliated Programme for Productivity Improvement (HAPPI).
In the building sector, RSS offers training to students from private and public universities on monitoring and assessment laboratory testing as well as design and supervision.
In the environmental sector, RSS provides specialized training in the following fields:
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Microbial tests for water and wastewater.
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Physical and chemical analysis of water and wastewater.
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Air pollution monitoring.
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Applications of atomic absorption spectroscopy and gas chromatography in environmental analyses.
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Environmental impact assessment (EIA).
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Environmental auditing and environmental management system (ISO 14000).
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Industrial wastewater treatment.
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