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Projects/Programs

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Premise Plumbing Systems for High-Performance Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop new measurement methods, modeling approaches, and data to support improvements in building plumbing design, utility consumption, and water quality. Technical Idea The technical idea is to advance understanding of the impacts water use and water-related energy use on its delivery...

Properties of Sustainable Fresh Concrete Project

Completed
Objective - Provide the industry with measurement science tools to predict whether a concrete can be pumped, with SRMs (Standard Reference Materials) to calibrate concrete rheometers and with tools for quality control in the field. What is the new technical idea? Fresh concrete is intended a...

Reliability of Mechanical Systems in Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop AI-assisted Fault-Detection and Diagnostic tools for reliability and operating cost savings of residential air conditioners (ACs), heat pumps (HPs), and mechanical systems of large commercial buildings. Technical Idea NIST will develop and demonstrate cloud-based FDD methods for...

Repair Materials Project

Completed
Objective - Develop the measurement science tools (metrologies, standards, and guidance documents) for quantitatively evaluating the critical material properties and ensuring the desired field performance of repair materials for our nation's concrete infrastructure. What is the new technical idea...

Resilient Communities for Future Hazards and Changing Conditions

Ongoing
Objective Publish (by 2026) a guidance document on flood mitigation alternatives for Community Resilience Planning specific to the built environment that effectively incorporates future hazards. Publish (by 2028) guidance documents for characterizing future hazards and conditions to support...

Resilient Infrastructure and Future Hazard Impacts: Windstorms

Ongoing
Objective By 2026, publish A Roadmap to Advance Standards for the Built Environment Subject to Future Hazards and Conditions. By 2028, have provisions for future wind hazards incorporated into the ASCE 7-28 Standard for Minimum Design Loads on Buildings and Other Structures. Technical Idea Engineers...

Risk Assessment for Forward-Looking Building Standards

Ongoing
Objective This project will significantly advance industry capacity for measuring and quantifying impacts from building damage/failure and develop guidance for the design and assessment of geotechnical considerations and multiple hazards that threaten buildings and infrastructure. Technical Idea To...

Risk Evaluation and Mitigation

Ongoing
Objective To improve techniques currently used for risk evaluation (including uncertainty quantification) and mitigation (including FRP retrofit) of structural systems and integrate them within the performance based earthquake engineering framework. Technical Idea The technical idea for each of the...

Risk Reduction and Recovery Program

Ongoing
Objective Advance innovative, high-value solutions to inform earthquake risk reduction and multi-hazard community resilience by applying measurement science, developing design standards and guidance recommendations, producing interdisciplinary decision-support tools, and conducting stakeholder...

Seismic Response of Reinforced Concrete Walls

Ongoing
Objective: The project includes two critical tasks identified in Performance Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE): (1) use of simplified reinforced concrete wall models in high-fidelity nonlinear dynamic analysis that have no robust experimental data validation - to be solved by thorough experimental...

Smart Building Automation and Control Testbed and Standards

Completed
Objective - To enable the development of a new generation of commercial products for integrated cybernetic building systems and transform industry practices for building operations, through a combination of measurement science research enabled by state-of-the-art testbeds and direct involvement in...

Smart Grid Program

Completed
Objective: To develop and demonstrate advances in measurement science to enable integration of interoperable and secure real-time sensing, control, communications, information and power technologies, in order to increase the system efficiency, reliability, resiliency and sustainability of the nation...

Sustainable Engineered Materials

Ongoing
NIST will advance measurement science tools to reliably assess the performance of sustainable materials for the manufacturing, construction, and transportation industries. These industrial sectors must meet demands for higher performance, multi-functionality, and for longer life to ensure a...

Transactive Energy for Effective Integration of Customer Flexibility

Ongoing
Objective The TE Flex project will provide the scientific basis for effective customer DER integration using transactive methods by 2026 with industry collaboration. Simulation studies in the NIST TE Testbed will investigate how transactive exchanges can optimally engage the flexibility of different...

Validation of ASCE 41 Procedures in PBSE

Completed
Objective - The objective of this study is to advance first-generation performance-based seismic engineering (PBSE) methods by assessing the performance of a set of code-compliant buildings using ASCE/SEI 41 methodologies. This study focuses on steel buckling-restrained braced frames (BRBFs) and...

Ventilation and Indoor Air Quality in High-Performance Buildings

Ongoing
Objective To develop and test tools to quantify and verify high-performance IAQ in high-performance buildings, and to support the development and improvement of industry-consensus building standards, guidelines, and programs related to IAQ and ventilation. Technical Idea The technical idea is to...

Ventilation Performance for Novel Sustainability and Resilience Challenges

Ongoing
Objective: To develop tools, metrics, and data to enable sustainable, resilient, high-performance building and ventilation system design and operation in response to current and future challenges. Also, to develop a methodology to evaluate potential changes to ventilation and IAQ standards so their...

Windstorms and Tornadoes: Hazard Characterization and Structural Design

Ongoing
Objective To significantly reduce the loss of life and property caused by extreme wind events and to enhance the resilience of American communities through improved characterization of extreme windstorms and tornadoes, development of performance-based design methods for extreme winds, and...
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