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SUMMARY:The Future of Work: Leveraging Technology for Business Growth
DESCRIPTION:It’s no secret that there’s room for improvement when it comes to women in leadership positions across the country. \nAccording to a piece by Forbes\, women represented 58.4% of the U.S. workforce as of September 2022\, but only held 35% of senior leadership positions. What’s more\, Forbes reported companies with women executives are 30% more likely to outperform other companies. \nGiven today’s emerging technology tools – namely artificial intelligence\, automation\, and data analytics – women executives have increased power to drive business innovation and growth. \nThis is especially important\, as technology continues to shape the business landscape of the built environment\, and it’s important for women leaders to understand and leverage these tools to stay competitive. \nIn this session\, Sandra Benson\, Vice President\, Federal Relations & Strategic Partnerships with Procore Technologies\, and Nancy Novak\, Chief Innovation Officer with Compass Datacenters\, will discuss how to harness emerging technologies to grow business and lead change.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/the-future-of-work-leveraging-technology-for-business-growth/
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CATEGORIES:Women Executives in Building
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250409T130000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250409T140000
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SUMMARY:Using Urban Building Stock Digital Twins to Streamline Building Retrofit Planning for Urban Energy Efficiency and Resilience
DESCRIPTION:Rapid retrofitting of America’s existing building stock is of urgent national interest to improve energy efficiency and resilience. But how can cities plan for this significant transition with limited funding\, data\, resources\, and time? \nThis session introduces a practical and scalable Urban Building stock digital twin for energy modeling developed by the Environmental Systems Lab at Cornell University. Designed to operate on widely available data\, the model delivers robust\, city-scale building physics models for predicting building energy use and thermal response in power outages. The digital twin platform analyzes existing energy consumption patterns. It predicts future energy consumption trends\, allowing users to evaluate the impact of electrification\, building retrofits\, and extreme weather events on energy demand and emissions. It also enables cost and incentive modeling\, helping cities and utilities assess financial feasibility and prioritize retrofit strategies. The session features a real-world case study from Ithaca\, NY\, the first U.S. city to commit to 100% building decarbonization and community-wide carbon neutrality. Within the session\, we will provide pointers on how to scale this work to other communities. \n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\n\nIdentify key public data required to build city-scale energy simulation models and recognize how these models can be improved using city-specific or private datasets.\nUnderstand how Urban Building Energy Modeling (UBEM) serves as an effective tool to analyze existing energy consumption patterns and predict future energy trends.\nExplore how UBEMs could inform energy policy\, guide decarbonization planning\, and prioritize retrofit interventions by providing detailed and accurate information about building retrofit potential\, upgrade costs\, and incentives eligibility.\nLearn from real-world UBEM applications based on a case study from Ithaca\, NY\, the first U.S. city to commit to full building decarbonization.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/using-urban-building-stock-digital-twins-to-streamline-building-retrofit-planning-for-urban-energy-efficiency-and-resilience/
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CATEGORIES:Building Innovation Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T152017
CREATED:20250603T045542Z
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SUMMARY:Home Hardening in the WUI: An Analysis of Recent Fire Testing
DESCRIPTION:As an increasing number of homes are built in the wildland-urban interface (WUI)\, it is important to understand how residential construction performs when exposed to wildland fires. WUI zones are the areas where wildland – forests\, chaparral\, grassland\, etc.\, meet or mix with human development. Home hardening is a term used to describe purposeful actions taken to help protect buildings in WUI zones. Home hardening provisions within WUI codes rely on a combination of prescriptive requirements and performance requirements based on standardized tests. \nIn the past several years\, the American Wood Council (AWC)\, Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) and the Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI)\, a part of UL Research Institutes\, have independently conducted multiple series of both standardized and non-standardized fire tests to quantify typical WUI fire exposures and characterize the performance of various building envelope components and assemblies under those exposures. The fire tests have been multi-faceted with individual approaches to allow for wider industry understanding of performance. FSRI’s and IBHS’s fire tests have investigated the general performance of the entire building envelope\, while AWC’s tests have focused specifically on hardening measures for exterior walls\, projections\, and intersections between these surfaces. \nLearning Objectives \n\nDevelop awareness of the different types of fire exposure hazards within the WUI.\nRecognize the importance of defensible space and how it affects fire exposure hazards.\nLearn about recent fire research\, fire tests and results.\nUnderstand how these fire tests have shed light on effective home hardening measures.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/home-hardening-in-the-wui-an-analysis-of-recent-fire-testing/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:April 21: Home Hardening in the WUI: An Analysis of Recent Fire Testing
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250424T120000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250424T130000
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SUMMARY:Cognitive Digital Twins: A Roadmap for Evolving Operations and Maintenance in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, TwinKnowledge will discuss a new type of digital twin that has emerged with AI\, cognitive digital twins (CDTs)\, and their implications for the AECO industry. \nCognitive digital twins enable O&M workflows that are supported end-to-end by AI. They are built on top of existing digital twins; they use AI to make sense of digital twin data\, generate insights such as anomaly detection and predictive maintenance for better decision-making/planning\, and combine information from scattered O&M documents to generate response plans for maintenance activities. \nTwinKnowledge will discuss what CDTs are\, why they are so valuable for O&M\, how they build on top of current digital twin systems\, and a general roadmap for where to start in evolving existing digital twin systems into cognitive digital twins. \n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\n\nWhat Is a cognitive digital twin (CDT)?\nWhy CDTs are so valuable for O&M\nHow CDTs work within current digital twin systems\nWhere any company can start with integrating CDT capabilities
URL:https://nibs.org/event/cognitive-digital-twins-a-roadmap-for-evolving-operations-and-maintenance-in-the-age-of-ai/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:April 24: Cognitive Digital Twins: A Roadmap for Evolving Operations and Maintenance in the Age of AI
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250424T130000
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SUMMARY:Cognitive Digital Twins: A Roadmap for Evolving Operations and Maintenance in the Age of AI
DESCRIPTION:In this session\, TwinKnowledge will discuss a new type of digital twin that has emerged with AI\, cognitive digital twins (CDTs)\, and their implications for the AECO industry. \nCognitive digital twins enable O&M workflows that are supported end-to-end by AI. They are built on top of existing digital twins; they use AI to make sense of digital twin data\, generate insights such as anomaly detection and predictive maintenance for better decision-making/planning\, and combine information from scattered O&M documents to generate response plans for maintenance activities. \nTwinKnowledge will discuss what CDTs are\, why they are so valuable for O&M\, how they build on top of current digital twin systems\, and a general roadmap for where to start in evolving existing digital twin systems into cognitive digital twins. \n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\n\nWhat Is a cognitive digital twin (CDT)?\nWhy CDTs are so valuable for O&M\nHow CDTs work within current digital twin systems\nWhere any company can start with integrating CDT capabilities
URL:https://nibs.org/event/cognitive-digital-twins-a-roadmap-for-evolving-operations-and-maintenance-in-the-age-of-ai-2/
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CATEGORIES:Building Innovation Webinar Series
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250428T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250428T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T152017
CREATED:20250428T120517Z
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SUMMARY:Optimizing Asset Definition and Structure for Enabling Digital Twins
DESCRIPTION:This session will explore the importance of well-defined Asset Registries and precise Asset Definitions in the development and implementation of digital twins. It will introduce new concepts\, methodologies\, and standards for structuring and managing asset information to support the integration of enterprise systems. \nBy enhancing these definitions and registries\, organizations can optimize asset data usage\, align with ISO 55000 principles\, and ultimately improve overall asset management and performance. \n\nLearning Objectives\n\n\n\n\nUnderstand the critical role of Asset Registries and Asset Definitions in enabling digital twins.\nLearn new methodologies and standards for structuring and managing asset information.\nExplore how to integrate enterprise systems to support scalable digital twin solutions.\nDiscover ways to leverage digital twins to enhance asset management and align with ISO 55000 principles.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/optimizing-asset-definition-and-structure-for-enabling-digital-twins/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:May 13: Optimizing Asset Definition and Structure for Enabling Digital Twins
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250429T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250429T170000
DTSTAMP:20260420T152017
CREATED:20250429T192756Z
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure 2022 Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:There has been a lot of movement\, talk\, and news coverage about infrastructure. \nThis year\, we’re digging deep with a new Infrastructure Webinar Series – a quarterly event centered around key infrastructure topics. These include: \n\nTransportation infrastructure\nGoods and supply chain challenges\nLifelines and access to high-speed networks\nPreparedness and mitigating the climate crisis\n\nThe National Institute of Building Sciences continues its mission to provide an open forum for discussion among the various facets of the building sector. \nLast year\, despite lingering challenges with COVID and in-person meetings\, NIBS found a solution and launched the year-long virtual Resilience 2021 series. Our subject matter experts looked at everything from natural disaster mitigation and the pandemic’s impact on technology in the built environment to building information modeling. \nJoin us for Infrastructure 2022.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/infrastructure-2022-webinar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250429T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250429T170000
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SUMMARY:Infrastructure 2022 Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:There has been a lot of movement\, talk\, and news coverage about infrastructure. \nThis year\, we’re digging deep with a new Infrastructure Webinar Series – a quarterly event centered around key infrastructure topics. These include: \n\nTransportation infrastructure\nGoods and supply chain challenges\nLifelines and access to high-speed networks\nPreparedness and mitigating the climate crisis\n\nThe National Institute of Building Sciences continues its mission to provide an open forum for discussion among the various facets of the building sector. \nLast year\, despite lingering challenges with COVID and in-person meetings\, NIBS found a solution and launched the year-long virtual Resilience 2021 series. Our subject matter experts looked at everything from natural disaster mitigation and the pandemic’s impact on technology in the built environment to building information modeling. \nJoin us for Infrastructure 2022.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/infrastructure-2022-webinar-series-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20250430T080000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20250430T170000
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SUMMARY:FEMA/BSSC 2020 NEHRP Provisions Design Examples Webinar Series
DESCRIPTION:The 2020 NEHRP Recommended Seismic Provisions for New Buildings and Other Structures (FEMA P-2082) marks the tenth edition of this technical resource document since its first publication in 1985. As with prior editions\, this FEMA document is a national seismic code resource for design professionals and the U.S. standards and code-development organizations. Most of the recommended code changes in Part 1 of the NEHRP Provisions are adopted by ASCE/SEI 7-22\, Minimum Design Loads and Associated Criteria for Buildings and Other Structures\, which is to be adopted by reference by the 2024 International Building Code. \nThe 2020 NEHRP Recommended Provisions: Design Examples are developed by BSSC for FEMA to illustrate and explain some of the new changes of the 2020 NEHRP Provisions\, ASCE/SEI 7-22\, and the material design standards referenced therein in design applications. The Design Examples are developed primarily for design practitioners; however\, college students learning about earthquake engineering and engineers studying for their licensing exam or designing in regions of moderate and high seismicity will find this document’s explanation of earthquake engineering\, the 2020 Provisions\, and ASCE/SEI 7-22 seismic provisions helpful. \nThe webinar series is organized by the eight chapters in the 2020 NEHRP Recommended Provisions: Design Examples\, and serves as part of the FEMA NEHRP/BSSC outreach and education effort. \nRegistration for the webinar series is free (space is limited). CEUs (for AIA and ICC) and certificates of attendance for PDHs and will be provided to those who attend the live webinars.
URL:https://nibs.org/event/fema-bssc-2020-nehrp-provisions-design-examples-webinar-series/
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