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Projects/Programs

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Community Resilience Program

Ongoing
Objective - By 2028, deliver novel resilience planning and analysis methods and tools to support informed decision making by communities of all sizes. By 2028, implement multifaceted outreach, collaboration, and engagement to ensure the effective dissemination of community resilience guidance...

Design for Tornadoes

Completed
Objective To advance tornado hazard mitigation through improved characterization of tornadoes and their interaction with buildings and structures, providing the technical foundation for improvements to tornado load design guidelines, standards, codes, and code adoptions. This includes research and...

Development of a First-Generation Community-Resilience Systems Model

Ongoing
Objective Develop an efficient, interactive computer-based tool, Alternatives for Resilient Communities (ARC), to facilitate exploration of decision alternatives at the community scale for infrastructure systems (buildings, water, power, transportation) for a range of natural hazard events and...

Forward-Looking Building Standards Workshops and Roadmap

Ongoing
Objective Publish A Roadmap to Advance Standards for the Built Environment Subject to Future Hazards and Conditions. Technical idea Engineers, planners, and communities are addressing future hazards and conditions to meet client requests and are looking for consensus guidance and standards to...

Functional Recovery of Buildings and Lifelines

Ongoing
Objective To improve the recovery time of buildings and lifeline infrastructure by strengthening the design of the built environment to withstand future earthquake impacts, considering economic and implementation issues, providing a standard framework for the U.S. construction industry to deliver...

Materials and Structures for Resilience Program

Ongoing
Objective To improve building codes, standards, and engineering practice by developing and deploying advances in measurement science that enhance the robustness, resilience, and durability of materials and structures against natural and manmade hazards. Technical Idea The Materials and Structures...

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...

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 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...

Structural Performance for Multi-hazards Program

Completed
Objective: To develop and deploy advances in measurement science to enhance the robustness of buildings and infrastructure to natural and manmade hazards. What is the technical idea? The fundamental new idea is that structural robustness can be significantly enhanced by developing reliable...

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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