NIBS Opens Up Building Innovation Webinar Series
Every year, hundreds of built environment professionals descend upon Washington, DC, to attend the Building Innovation conference of the National Institute of Building Sciences. As part of our mission to […]
NIBS to Host Housing Affordability Hearing November 6
By Christine Cube On Monday, November 6, the National Institute of Building Sciences will host a day-long public hearing to discuss the state of housing affordability and solutions to bring […]
Webinar: Team Discusses Resilience Incentivization Roadmap 2.0
By Christine Cube In September, NIBS and Fannie Mae unveiled the Resilience Incentivization Roadmap 2.0 – a continuation of a 2020 study that called for public and private incentives that allow owners […]
NIBS October Events Heat Up
It’s a busy October! NIBS is hosting three webinars this month, starting tomorrow at noon EST with The Intersect of Resilience, Low-Embodied Carbon and LCCA in Materials Selection. In this webinar, […]
NIBS and Fannie Mae Release Mitigation Investment Roadmap
With the support of Fannie Mae, the National Institute of Building Sciences has developed a roadmap on mitigation investment to help Americans and the nation’s built environment prepare for and […]
NIBS Announces BEST6 Call for Abstracts
The National Institute of Building Sciences Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council has opened the call for abstracts for the Building Science and Technology (BEST6) conference. BEST6 will be held […]
Resilience incentives advance
All too often we focus on what the federal government is doing to build disaster resilience. Federal grant funding, though sizable and growing is only one piece of the resilience […]
Embedding Legal Frameworks into ESG Resiliency Within the Built Environment
The National Institute of Building Sciences recently brought together leaders from across the architecture, engineering, construction, and operations (AECO) industries for the Women Executives in Building Symposium. One presentation, “Resiliency: A […]
Op-Ed: Oregon’s Fuel on Risky Riverbanks
Oregon’s Department of Environmental Quality has begun working with Portland’s 13 bulk fuel terminals to assess their seismic vulnerabilities and implement mitigation, according to an opinion piece published today in The […]
Disaster Resilience is a Trillion-dollar Challenge. Here’s What FEMA Can Do to Help
Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported the US surpassed $1 trillion in losses and 5,000 deaths from 122 separate billion-dollar disasters over the past seven years. These eyewatering losses […]
