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Podcast Episode Highlighting Mental Health Wins Award

The National Institute of Building Sciences’ Building Innovation Podcast recently won a Silver w3 Award for the Season 1 episode, “Mental Health Crisis in Construction.” Receiving thousands of entries annually from across the globe, […]

Digital Twins: A Powerful Tool for Design and Construction

Rapid urbanization and increasingly complex construction projects require the building industry to turn to innovative technologies to enhance efficiency, sustainability, and safety. Digital twins – dynamic and interactive virtual replicas […]

Diving Into Digital Twins for the New Emerging Technologies Series

Digital twins is more than a buzz term. In fact, we’re dedicating the inaugural event of the new Building Innovation: Emerging Technologies Series to digital twins. Digital Twins 2024 takes place December […]

NIBS Receives ASAE Silver Award for Earthquakes Briefing

The National Institute of Building Sciences recently was honored with a Power of Associations Silver Award by the American Society of Association Executives for its National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program […]

Digital Technology Council Seeks Board Nominations

The NIBS Digital Technology Council (DTC) Nominating Committee (NC) seeks nominations to fill officer positions on the DTC Board of Direction (BOD). Positions include Chair, Vice Chair, and Secretary. The […]

The Opportunities and Challenges of Modular Construction

Modular construction consists of building components prefabricated offsite in a manufacturing facility. These components are then transported and assembled onsite. Since both offsite and onsite work simultaneously occur, opportunities exist […]

NIBS Nominates ICC CEO Dominic Sims for WSD Leadership Award

Among the first orders of business as administrating organization of this year’s U.S. Celebration of World Standards Day (WSD), NIBS was proud to nominate International Code Council CEO Dominic Sims […]

Women Executives in Building Symposium: Knowledge is Power

When it comes to barriers to women in construction, they generally include stereotyping and social barriers, lack of education and training, and conditions in the workplace. This and other diversity […]

New Paper: BIM and Digital Twins Coexist to Drive Sustainability

A new position paper by the NIBS Digital Twin Integration Subcommittee (DTI-S) encourages the integration of building information modeling (BIM) and digital twin technology, presenting a groundbreaking opportunity for the architecture, engineering, […]

National Institute of Building Sciences Names New CEO George Guszcza

Dr. Guszcza previously served as Chief Transformation Officer with Michael Baker International (WASHINGTON, DC, June 18, 2024) – The National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) Board of Directors is proud to announce […]

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