Strategic Planning

Initiatives

Whether in your home, office, or out in the community, the walls you surround yourself with must be safe, structurally sound, and resilient.
The National Institute of Building Sciences enhances communities by fostering collaboration between public and private stakeholders and advancing transformative technologies across the built environment.

The NIBS Board of Directors developed a new three-year strategic plan to guide the organization, based on the following cultural values: collaboration, innovation, and accountability.

MISSION

To serve the public interest by advancing building science and technology to improve the built environment.

VISION

Improving lives through collaboration by integrating science into the built environment.

OBJECTIVE

Our Strategic Plan includes four major goal themes, each with very specific strategies.

MITIGATION & RESILIENCY

The goal of hazard mitigation and resilience requires advancing innovative solutions and their adoption in the built environment. Building alliances with public and private sector organizations to develop and deploy innovative solutions is critical to this mission. NIBS also must drive interdisciplinary and interorganizational collaboration resulting in the development of policies, codes, and standards and share knowledge to advance resilient and sustainable communities.

TRANSFORMATIONAL BUILDING SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGIES

NIBS aims to promote convergent research and transformational technologies. Strategies to this goal involve nurturing and promoting creativity and innovation to advance technology. NIBS also aims to remove barriers to accelerate technology acceptance and adoption and advance innovative technology awareness and implementation.

INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT

NIBS encourages collaboration across the public and private sectors to strengthen and expand our nation’s building workforce and communities. Strategies include advancing our industry’s understanding of how building science and the built environment impact community development while championing sustainable and thriving communities. It’s critical to advance initiatives that enhance recruitment and development of the building industry workforce to meet our nation’s growing needs.

VISIBILITY AND RECOGNITION

NIBS is a trusted authority and resource in the built environment. The organization aims to amplify its congressionally authorized purpose as the nationally recognized authoritative voice. Strategies include increasing NIBS’ brand visibility and stakeholder engagement among government and the private sector as well as attracting new stakeholders and business partners.

Next Steps

With these actions, NIBS will achieve broader recognition as a trusted, unbiased partner convening government and industry for the public interest. NIBS also will achieve greater balance: A more innovative and impactful diversified and balanced portfolio of programs, products and services that provides flexibility for the organization to carry out mission-driven activities.

Initiatives