Cooperative Agreement DEEE0008703

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program will evaluate the impacts of incorporating climate change considerations into building design load standards. The $204,838 project, with a performance period from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will develop metrics to quantify how adopting climate-adjusted design loads affects building structural...

This Cooperative Agreement award of $274,921 from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards (CFDA 11.609) Federal Grant Program is intended to develop a novel framework to quantify the impact of climate change on the risk of buildings and bridges prone to earthquakes and strong windstorms. The key activities include creating a framework with eight modules to assess climate change scenarios, hazard analysis, structural...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded The Johns Hopkins University a $589,382 Project Grant under the Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program. The grant will fund research quantifying the economic impact of alternative, performance-based designs for structural fire performance in composite steel-framed buildings. Activities include generating open data sets characterizing firebrand generation and deposition, as well as laboratory and field-based...

The University of Cincinnati will conduct research on fixture-level peak probability of water use in commercial buildings under a $242,754 cooperative agreement from the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). The research supports NIST's Measurement and Engineering Research and Standards program (CFDA 11.609), which provides scientific and engineering research and technology transfer for measurement and standards. Over the one-year period from January...

This $299,999 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering, under the International Research and Education program (CFDA 47.079), will fund the development of novel synthetic living materials to improve the construction, performance, and maintenance of buildings. Specifically, the International Partnership for Responsive Infrastructure Using Sustainable Multifunctional Materials project will leverage advances in bioinspired materials...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) award of $587,250 to The Pennsylvania State University, doing business as Penn State, will support research to create and evaluate new methods for incorporating decision support through artificial intelligence during early building design. The project aims to develop flexible machine learning models that can predict key building performance metrics, enable interactive human-computer collaboration on design exploration,...

This three-year National Science Foundation project grant of $338,074 will support research at Texas Tech University to develop efficient analysis frameworks for assessing the inelastic wind response of tall buildings. Funded through NSF's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), this research directly addresses critical knowledge gaps to enable performance-based wind design of tall structures. Key products will include high-fidelity modeling of different building heights and systems to characterize...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) under the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) provides $5,100,000 to the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) to develop and pilot a standardized, legally robust, and technically feasible alternative compliance pathway (ACP) framework for building...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Information Dissemination, Outreach, Training and Technical Analysis/Assistance program (CFDA 81.117) will provide $3,200,000 to advance the development and implementation of evidence-based, effective, and equitable building performance standards (BPS) for existing buildings in New Jersey. The project aims to determine paths forward for BPS, provide recommendations for supporting...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) Project Grant award of $294,457 to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) explores the feasibility of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) language models to automate the creation of building energy models. The key objectives are to: 1) test the feasibility of applying generative AI to various steps of the building energy modeling process, and 2) quantify the performance and time trade-offs...