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Data Needs for Achieving High-Performance Buildings

Buildings are complex and becoming more so as owners and policymakers demand particular levels of performance. The focus is no longer…

Designing for a Resilient America: A Stakeholder Summit on High Performance Resilient Buildings and Related Infrastructure

Given the gravity of manmade and natural hazard events of the last decade, designing buildings that not only offer resistance, but…

Report on Building Rating and Certification in the U.S. Building Community

On September 25, 2008, the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences appointed a Task Group to review the…

Report on Building Rating and Certification in the U.S. Building Community

On September 25, 2008, the Board of Directors of the National Institute of Building Sciences appointed a Task Group to review the…

35th Anniversary Report

In December 1968, the United States Federal Government’s National Commission on Urban Problems sounded an alarm. The Commission had been formed in January, 1967, as part of President Lyndon Johnson’s […]

Assessment to the U.S. Congress and U.S. Department of Energy on High Performance Buildings

The United States enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world. One contributing component of this standard of living is…

Assessment to the U.S. Congress and U.S. Department of Energy on High Performance Buildings

The United States enjoys one of the highest standards of living in the world. One contributing component of this standard of living is…

Natural Hazard Mitigation Saves: An Independent Study to Assess the Future Savings from Mitigation Activities.

From 2000 to 2005, the MMC, commissioned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), conducted a Congressionally mandated…

Excellence in Facilities Management: Five Federal Case Studies

NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions 1985-2015

The National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures is a series of publications developed by the BSSC and published by FEMA. The first edition […]

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