Awards

For identifying the best alternatives to hydrofluorocarbon chemicals essential to the future of the air-conditioning and refrigerating industries.

For outstanding measurement science contributions that led to the first technical specification providing guidance for safe robot-human collaboration.

For developing engineering methods and tools for mitigating disproportionate collapse in buildings to save lives and to reduce property losses.

For development of an international standard and supporting messaging language to enable enhanced robot agility in manufacturing applications.

For significantly accelerating the deployment of key manufacturing data standards through a novel NIST Messaging Standard Semantic Refinement Tool.

For development of science-based guidance on the use of evacuation elevators that enhances the safety of people with mobility impairments during fire emergencies.

For technical work and leadership in the development and approval of the Facility Smart Grid Information Model as a new international standard.

For groundbreaking engineering and scientific research enabling the protection of structures and communities from the devastating effects of large-scale wildland fires.

Hai S. Lew of EL's Materials and Structural Systems Division has worked at NIST for over 49 years. He joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1968 as a structural research engineer. As Senior Research Engineer, he carries out a broad range of research programs in the fields of structural and earthquake engineering. Dr. Lew has published over 150 articles, papers, and reports on the performance of structures, construction safety, failure investigations, and earthquake engineering.

For leading the deployment of new measurement-science tools to industry, for service-life prediction and product-failure reduction in the solar-energy market.

For development of a unique experimental testbed to support the building industry's delivery of energy-efficient, comfortable, and healthy homes.

For outstanding leadership in developing the Community Resilience Planning Guide, a planning process to help communities increase disaster resilience.

For development of the Fire Dynamics Simulator fire model, an achievement in the practical application of science to fire-safe design of structures.

For conducting the first study of the impact of installation faults on heat pump performance, providing an authoritative basis for improved practice.

For development, analysis, and dissemination of a building evacuation database to improve occupant safety during fire incidents.

For development of testbeds for monitoring photovoltaic (PV) system performance that are providing critical datasets to the solar energy industry.