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Manufacturing

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Metrics and Tools for Sustainable Buildings

Ongoing

Objective: Develop, integrate, apply, and deploy measurement science assessing the sustainability performance of energy technologies and systems in an integrated building design and operation context, and provide the necessary information to stakeholders to make more sustainable choices in

Developing Cost-Effective Relationships Between Federal Building Profiles and Seismic Retrofit Cost

Completed

Objective - To develop quantitative methods to evaluate the benefits and costs of risk mitigation activities implemented to improve seismic performance of buildings, based on building profiles (construction type, size, age, location), which can be applied to buildings that are federally owned

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Applied Economics in US Manufacturing

Smart Investment Tool

Monte Carlo Tool

EDGe$ (Economic Decision Guide Software) Online Tool

Capital Investment Analysis

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NEW RELEASE: Guide to Sustainable Investment Analysis

NIST’s Applied Economic Office released a “ Guide for Environmentally Sustainable Investment Analysis” based on ASTM E3200. This guide presents techniques for evaluating manufacturing investments from the perspective of environmentally sustainable manufacturing by pairing economic methods of investment analysis with environmental aspect of manufacturing, including manufacturing processes. It aids

NIST Publishes Recommendations to Use Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) in Manufacturing Life Cycle Data

On Panel: NIST Researcher Addresses Blockchain Uses, Considerations, and Future Research

Manufacturing supply chain activities and data