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Projects/Programs

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Embedded Intelligence in Buildings Program

Completed
Objective To develop and deploy advances in measurement science that will improve building operations to achieve lower operating costs, energy waste, occupant comfort/safety/security, and smart grid integration through the use of intelligent building systems. What is the problem? Over 80% of the...

Energy Measurements for Existing Residential Buildings Project

Ongoing
Objective: To improve estimates of residential whole-building energy consumption by 2014 through characterization of uncertainties of tools used in providing energy feedback to building occupants and selecting retrofit options to improve the performance of existing buildings. What is the new...

Fault Detection and Diagnostics for Air-Conditioners and Heat Pumps

Completed
Objective Develop fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) methods and measurement tools to ensure air conditioners (ACs) and heat pumps (HPs) perform as designed throughout their lifetime and develop a testing and rating methodology to assess relative merits of different commercial FDD products...

Fire Risk Reduction in Buildings Program

Ongoing
This program advances fire measurement capabilities, predictive models, testing methods, detection technologies, and fire-resistant materials to create innovative, cost-effective solutions that enhance occupant safety and improve the fire resistance of buildings and their contents.

Flammability Metrics for Next Generation Refrigerants

Ongoing
Objective To develop the capability to measure and predict the flammability of next generation refrigerants to (1) allow the ranking of mixtures in terms of their flammability, (2) assist in selection and implementation of the best replacements for legacy hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, (3)...

Functional Barriers for Low-Flammability Products

Ongoing
This project enables low-flammability products without flame retardants by providing methods to assess functional barriers, advancing their performance, and exploring their use in multi-layer products for critical applications.

Functional Recovery of Buildings and Lifelines

Ongoing
Objective The Functional Recovery project is designed to improve the time for recovery of key social functions by strengthening the built environment to withstand earthquake impacts. Our efforts will advance measurement science for the assessment and design of buildings and lifelines, contribute in...

Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Transport

Completed
This project develops a high-accuracy reference system for near-industrial-scale CO2 measurements, providing a framework for low-uncertainty emissions data and improving atmospheric dispersion models to reduce uncertainties in greenhouse gas source predictions.

Hurricane Ian Study

Ongoing
Objective Conduct a research study on Hurricane Ian’s 2022 landfall in Florida to: Improve (a) coastal flood hazard characterization, including quantification of overland velocity and waves, (b) quantification of storm surge loads on buildings due to hydrostatic pressure, wave forcing, surge...

Indoor Contaminants

Ongoing
Objective To provide the measurement science to lead the development of industry-consensus standards and guides to optimize buildings and operate products relevant to the indoor environment and indoor air quality in an efficient and safe manner. Technical Idea This project seeks to provide the...

Intelligent Building Agents

Completed
Objective Demonstrate the feasibility of AI control techniques for reducing the energy costs of HVAC systems in commercial buildings and create a research infrastructure, the Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory (IBAL), suitable for ongoing demonstration, development, and evaluation of advanced AI...

Low-GWP Refrigerants for High-Efficiency HVAC&R Equipment

Completed
Objective - To develop heat transfer and system performance information that will assist in the selection and implementation of the best replacements for high-GWP hydrofluorocarbon (HFC). What is the new technical idea? Most of the currently used HFC refrigerants will be phased out or phased down...

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Innovative Concretes

Completed
Objective - To develop the measurement science needed to enable greater industry use of innovative concretes, such as 3D printing, more durable and limestone replacement concretes. What is the new technical idea? Manufacturing of cement and production/placement of concrete requires significant...

Measurement Science for Building Systems Program

Ongoing
Objective To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to support the design and operation of high-performance building systems capable of better supporting resiliency, grid-reliability/stability, and affordability while maintaining a healthy, safe indoor environment. What is the problem...

Measurement Science Tools for Accelerated Weathering of Polymers Project

Ongoing
Objective - Develop a U.S. resource for service life prediction by delivering a suite of measurement science tools including publically available data sets, statistical models, validation data, and geographically specific predictions based on validated statistical models. This resource will be the...

Measures of Building Resilience and Structural Robustness Project

Ongoing
Objective: By FY2014, develop the measurement science to assess the disaster resilience of buildings through the use of risk-based assessment and decision methods, and develop performance-based pre-standards for mitigation of disproportionate collapse of steel and reinforced concrete structures...

Measuring the Performance of Net-Zero Energy Homes

Completed
Objective: Develop the measurement science necessary to evaluate various technological approaches to achieve net-zero energy residential buildings, including innovative monitoring techniques, methods of test, performance metrics and high quality experimental data for the validation and improvement...

Metrics and Tools for Construction Productivity Project

Ongoing
What is the problem? Although the construction industry is a major sector of the U.S. economy, it has experienced a perceived period of decline in productivity[1]. Due to the critical lack of measurement methods, however, the magnitude of the productivity problem in the construction industry is...

National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program Coordination

Ongoing
Objective - To support NIST's statutory Lead Agency role of coordinating National Windstorm Impact Reduction Program (NWIRP) research and implementation activities. What is the new technical idea? This project supports coordination, management, and leadership of the National Windstorm Impact...

NEHRP Extramural Research

Completed
Objective - A task order to assist NIST and the NEHRP agencies in updating the NEHRP Strategic Plan will be awarded to a policy contractor. In addition, other planned FY 2020 extramural research will be assigned by task order to the new IDIQ contractor once that award is made. It is anticipated that...

NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory: Metrology and Operations Project

Ongoing
Objective - To maintain, improve and expand capabilities at the NIST Accelerated Weathering Laboratory (AWL) and to use the facility to conduct safe, accurate and traceable aging experiments. Enable the technology transfer of the SPHERE technology to industrial stakeholders. What is the new...

Performance Criteria Development

Ongoing
Objective To advance component-level seismic performance criteria in current design standards by conducting focused experimental tests and analytical studies. Technical Idea In the following, the technical idea for each of the RTs is presented separately: RT1: High-Strength Reinforcement in...
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