Building and Fire Research Programs & Projects

Space-conditioning equipment in buildings accounts for 37% of the Nation’s primary energy consumption in buildings and 15% of the … more

Concerns over global warming and ozone depletion will limit or phase out several refrigerants currently used in commercial and residential cooling … more

NIST will advance commercial building system commissioning as a standard quality assurance practice by developing techniques to automate … more

The focus of this project is to develop measurement science and standards to enable building systems to interact with a future “smart … more

Achieving national goals of net zero energy buildings requires substantial reduction in the energy consumption of commercial building systems. … more

NIST is working to measure and improve the operational performance of commercial buildings by leveraging previously untapped capabilities within … more

Better information about the practical implications of integrating historically separate building automation systems and improved industry … more

Fault detection and diagnostic (FDD) methods are receiving increasing consideration for application in space-conditioning equipment.  It … more

The Virtual Cement and Concrete Testing Laboratory (VCCTL) project develops and integrates state-of-the-art computational materials science tools … more

Using a complementary approach of experimental measurements and detailed finite element analysis, we will develop more realistic yet … more

Significant improvements were made in the area of technique development for Eagle III mXRF since its initial installation in 2007. The diverse … more

The microscopic arrangement of the magnetic structure within a thin metal film plays a fundamental role in many technological applications ranging … more

Focused beams of ions have a wide range of uses, from nanoscale imaging to the fabrication of nanomaterials.  At the CNST, researchers … more

Graphene, a one-atom thick sheet of carbon, shows great promise as a material for building nanometer-scale electronic devices that would help to … more

This project includes two critical problem-focused tasks in Performance Based Seismic Engineering (PBSE): (1) the evaluation of reinforced … more