An Engineer's Perspective: Shaping Resilient Systems Through Policy and Practice
The National Institute of Building Sciences Board of Directors developed the 2023-2025 Strategic Plan to guide the organization. The plan includes four major goals, each with specific strategies.
The goal of natural hazard adaptation, mitigation, and resilience requires advancing solutions and their adoption in the built environment. Building alliances with public and private sector organizations to develop and deploy innovative solutions is critical to this mission.
NIBS also must drive interdisciplinary and interorganizational collaboration resulting in the development of policies, codes, and standards. The organization also must share knowledge to advance resilient and sustainable communities.
December 9-11, 2024 | National Harbor, MD
Join us as we deep dive into Digital Twins at this inaugural event. Digital twins plays a crucial role in enhancing resilience and mitigation in the built environment by enabling predictive analysis, design optimization, real-time monitoring, and disaster response.
May 19-21, 2025 | McLean, VA
Building Innovation brings together federal, state, and local governments, the private sector, AECO professionals, scientists, and academics to tackle challenges in the built environment. BI2025 content will focus on mitigation and resilience.
The Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council brings together a body of volunteer experts in a multitude of related fields that address the challenges associated with identifying and implementing effective mitigation and community resilience practices.
The Committee on Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (CFIRE) examines the intersection of finance, insurance, investment and design, construction and ownership to encourage the development and assist in the affordability of high-performance buildings.
TurboGrants is a resilience one-stop shop that leverages technology to simplify the grant identification process, matches applicants with resources that fit their needs, and provides enhanced technical assistance.
The NIBS Lifeline Infrastructure Hub aims to help the nation with community resilience and recovery after disasters. Robust partnerships with government, the private sector, and various stakeholders to advance this effort are crucial for our safety and security.
The Lifeline Infrastructure Hub was an ambitious initiative aimed at fostering robust partnerships across government, the private sector, and various stakeholders. Attendees confronted Lifeline Gaps, tackled National and Public Priorities, devised innovative policies, and engineered solutions to fortify our infrastructure against future calamities.
Data from Architecture 2030 shows that in 2040, approximately 2/3 of the global building stock will be buildings that exist today.
In 2020, the NIBS Committee on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate (CFIRE) published A Roadmap to Resilience Incentivization, which calls for public and private incentives that allow owners of buildings and other infrastructure to facilitate the upgrade of existing infrastructure and better design of new infrastructure.
This course discussed considerations for the holistic design and construction of durable, long-lasting structures that are sustainable, safe and resilient.
This session of the Infrastructure 2022 webinar series will highlight disaster preparation projects to address worsening natural disasters.
The National Institute of Building Sciences continues its mission to provide an open forum for discussion among the various facets of the building sector.
2020 was a year we will never forget—from natural disasters and social unrest to a pandemic that followed us into 2021. NIBS' monthly webinar series addresses how a year of unique challenges can ultimately build resilience in our communities, our infrastructure and the places we live, work, learn and play.