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Buildings & Construction

Building materials

News and Updates

Two men stand a table in a warehouse space, looking at a broken piece of concrete that one is holding.

NIST to Provide Public Update on Hurricane Maria and Champlain Towers South Investigations During Advisory Committee Meeting March 6-7, 2024

March 4, 2024

The meeting will be livestreamed each day.

A slab of concrete with ragged edges sits on a warehouse floor as researchers use equipment to extract core samples.

NIST Provides Update on Investigation Into the Collapse of Champlain Towers South

September 7, 2023

Preliminary evaluations show additional deviations from design in pool deck construction, no underground voids.

NIST Researchers Link Cutting-Edge Gravity Research to Safer Operation of Construction Cranes

February 17, 2022

In the beginning, all that Stephan Schlamminger wanted to do was to write down an equation that would help him obtain a more precise value for G, the

Projects and Programs

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Green Concretes Project

Completed

An effective strategy for making a more "green" concrete is to replace the portland cement (the binding component with large energy and CO 2 footprints) with

Repair Materials Project

Completed

In spite of advances in materials and construction technologies, our nation's civil infrastructure remains in a state of serious decay. The 2013 American

Measurement Science Tools for Accelerated Weathering of Polymers Project

Ongoing

There is pressure on U.S. industry to develop innovative solutions to meet increasing customer and regulatory demands for sustainable manfactured materials

Seismic Performance of Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States

Completed

In certain regions of moderate seismicity, particularly in the central and eastern United States (CEUS), member sizes of the seismic force-resisting systems

Publications

Increasing Sustainability in The Low Slope Roof Market Through PVC (Vinyl) Membrane Recycling

November 30, 2023

Author(s)

Jennifer Oblock, Jay Thomas, Richard Krock, Buddhika Hapuwatte, Nehika Mathur

Retrofit and Repair of Reinforced Concrete Walls With FRP: A Review of Experimental Investigations

July 13, 2023

Author(s)

Jazalyn Dukes, Siamak Sattar

Retrofit and repair of structures occur under differing circumstances but are both necessary to improve existing building stock and increase resilience of

Electrosteric control of the aggregation and yielding behavior of concentrated portlandite suspensions

June 13, 2023

Author(s)

Sharu Kandy, Mathieu Bauchy, Gaurav Sant, Aditya Kumar, Narayanan Neithalath, Samanvaya Srivastava, Torben Gaedt, Edward Garboczi

Portlandite (calcium hydroxide: CH: Ca(OH)2) suspensions aggregate spontaneously and form percolated fractal aggregate networks when dispersed in water. As a

Implementing NIST Infiltration Correlations

March 31, 2023

Author(s)

Jyrteanna Teo, Lisa Ng

This tutorial is a guide on how to implement the NIST infiltration correlations (Ng et al., 2021) into EnergyPlus building energy simulation software for the US

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

January 13, 2017

Prediction is based on a one-dimensional finite difference solution of Fick's second law of diffusion, with a variable external chloride concentration and a two

MicroChar

April 1, 2015

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) Accurate quantitative data on cement and clinker microstructure images can prove valuable for

Concrete Optimization Software Tool

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) COST (Concrete Optimization Software Tool) is an online design/analysis system to assist concrete

4SIGHT

(Return to Cement Hydration and Degradation Modeling Software) The 4SIGHT computer program was written to facilitate concrete performance prediction under

Building materials

News and Updates

NIST to Provide Public Update on Hurricane Maria and Champlain Towers South Investigations During Advisory Committee Meeting March 6-7, 2024

NIST Provides Update on Investigation Into the Collapse of Champlain Towers South

NIST Researchers Link Cutting-Edge Gravity Research to Safer Operation of Construction Cranes

Projects and Programs

Measurement Science to Assure the Performance of Green Concretes Project

Repair Materials Project

Measurement Science Tools for Accelerated Weathering of Polymers Project

Seismic Performance of Steel Buildings in the Central and Eastern United States

Publications

Increasing Sustainability in The Low Slope Roof Market Through PVC (Vinyl) Membrane Recycling

Retrofit and Repair of Reinforced Concrete Walls With FRP: A Review of Experimental Investigations

Electrosteric control of the aggregation and yielding behavior of concentrated portlandite suspensions

Implementing NIST Infiltration Correlations

Software

Prediction of a Chloride Ion Penetration Profile for a Concrete

MicroChar

Concrete Optimization Software Tool

4SIGHT

Tools and Instruments

Integrating Sphere-based Weathering Device

Large Aperture Scanner

Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate