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Portland Resilient Runway Benefit-Cost Analysis
Oregon could experience a magnitude-8.7 or larger earthquake within 50 years that causes catastrophic deaths and damage. Portland…
Project 17 Workshop on Seismic Hazard Mapping
On November 28, 2016, a Project 17 Workshop on Seismic Hazard Mapping was organized and presented by the Project 17 Committee of BSSC…
Raising the Profile, Filling the Gaps: Report from a Town Hall Meeting on the Future of Code Officials
This report, released by the International Code Council (ICC), summarizes the findings of a Town Hall Meeting held during the 2014 ICC…
Report of the Results of the 2014 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey
In 2014, the National Institute of Building Sciences Off-Site Construction Council set out to get an understanding of how the…
Report of the Results of the 2015 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey of Software Usage
This report compiles the results of a survey conducted by the Off-Site Construction Council (OSCC) in the summer of 2015 to identify…
Report of the Results of the 2018 Off-Site Construction Industry Survey
This report compiles the results of a follow-up survey conducted in 2018 by the Off-Site Construction Council (OSCC) to understand how…
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…
Resilience Incentivization Roadmap 2.0
With the support of Fannie Mae, the National Institute of Building Sciences has developed a roadmap on mitigation investment to help…
Results from an Expert Roundtable on Utilization of Public-Private Partnerships to Promote High-Performance Public Buildings in the United States
This report, developed jointly by the National Institute of Building Sciences and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors…
Saving Time with Modular Bathroom Pods
Bathroom pods contribute to a cleaner and safer work environment, help reduce labor, materials, waste, and costs, and increase speed…