Project Grant 23DG11062765088

This federal Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) aims to refine the design criteria for cross-laminated timber (CLT) floor systems. The $679,761 grant awarded to Villanova University in Pennsylvania on June 24, 2025, will examine the short- and long-term deflection behavior of 5-layer CLT panels, which will be tested to failure. This research seeks to improve the efficiency of CLT...

This $127,940 National Science Foundation project grant supports research to develop an innovative seismic resilient structural system at Stanford University from October 1, 2022 to August 31, 2023. The system aims to protect buildings and their occupants from earthquakes through a new steel frame-spine design with force-limiting connections. Researchers will collaborate with counterparts in Japan to test the system using a full-scale earthquake facility. They also plan to offer an online course...

This $600,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674), will fund the development of a multi-family mass timber construction project in Anchorage, Alaska. The project aims to advance the economic viability and environmental benefits of mass timber construction in a market with labor shortages and compressed construction seasons. The funding will enable the awardee, TC3 LLC, to evaluate...

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 $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to explore novel lightweight backfill materials for geotechnical structures. The project aims to leverage aerospace composites engineering concepts to develop new geo-composite materials that combine geosynthetics and lightweight backfill like lightweight cellular concrete (LCC) and tire derived aggregate (TDA). This...

This Project Grant award in the amount of $379,885 is funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041). It supports research on the fire behavior of timber structures to develop novel engineering methods for designing mass timber buildings with improved fire resilience. The goal is to develop a computational framework for modeling the response of timber structures in fire, which will then be used to derive design methods for fire-resilient timber buildings. The...

The Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (ADOT&PF) was awarded an $825,286 Formula Grant from the Federal Highway Administration's Highway Planning and Construction program (CFDA 20.205) on December 27, 2022. The grant funding will support research to develop tools for determining seismic demands on abutment wing walls, design details and analysis methods compatible with intended seismic performance, and recommendations for wing wall design. Deliverables under the...

This $400,034 Project Grant award from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service under the Wood Utilization Assistance program (CFDA 10.674) supports structural testing of nail-laminated timber construction for affordable housing that is resilient to extreme weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes. The project will expand upon knowledge gained from constructing a pilot wood nail-laminated timber building, with an expected completion date of December 31, 2028....

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 $100,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program will support the development of an intuitive design platform for sustainable multifamily residential buildings. The grant recipient, New Jersey Institute of Technology, will create a collaborative parametric design system allowing architects, engineers, developers and other users to quickly generate and modify schematic designs and dynamic 3D models through simple sketch-based...