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A Framework for Meeting 21st Century Imperatives: Report of a Workshop
For the people of the United States, the 20th century was one of unprecedented population growth, economic development, and improved quality of life. ...
Construction productivity-how well, how quickly, and at what cost buildings and infrastructure can be constructed-directly affects prices for homes an...
A State-of-the-Practice Summary of Post-Occupancy Evaluation
In 1986, the FFC requested that the NRC appoint a committee to examine the field and propose ways by which the POE process could be improved to better...
In 1997, Congress, in the conference report, H.R. 105-271, to the FY1998 Energy and Water Development Appropriation Bill, directed the National Resear...
In the more than 100 years since its formation, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation of the Department of Interior (DOI), through its construction program, ...
Proceedings of a Colloquium
With the current emphasis on a balanced federal budget and correspondingly decreased federal participation in financing local infrastructure systems, ...
Summary of a Workshop
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Managing the Final Stages of Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project
Boston's Central Artery/Tunnel Project, a 7.8 mile system of bridges and underground highways and ramps, is the most expensive public works project ev...
The United States Department of Energy's (DOE) facilities stewardship is extremely important to the department's ability to achieve its mission of pro...
In this study outsourcing is defined as the organizational practice of contracting for services from an external entity while retaining control over a...
Report of a Workshop
In the next several decades, a significant percentage of the country's transportation, communications, environmental, and power system infrastructures...
Workshop Proceedings: Federal Facilities Council Technical Report #148
Indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is influenced by building design; heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems; and construction materials, a...
Congress has an ongoing interest in ensuring that the 500,000 buildings and other structures owned and operated by the Department of Defense (DOD) are...
2002 Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
The application of technology to housing design, construction, and operation offers opportunities for improving affordability, energy efficiency, comf...
A Research Agenda for Indoor Microbiology, Human Health, and Buildings
People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures designed,...
Asset Management Strategies for the 21st Century
Facilities now owned by the Federal Government are valued at over $300 billion. It also spends over $25 billion per year for acquisition, renovation, ...
Key Practices for Developing Scopes of Work for Facility Projects
Although most federal facilities projects are successfully completed (i.e., they reasonably meet the agency's requirements and expectations), the perc...
Reviews of Research Programs of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts construction-relevant research activities. From 1996 through 2005, the prog...
The deteriorating condition of federal facilities poses economic, safety, operational, and environmental risks to the federal government, to the achie...
Attributes for Health and Learning
Evidence has accumulated that shows that the quality of indoor environments can affect the health and productivity of adults and children. One consequ...
Uses of Best Dispute Resolution Practices by Project Owners: Proceedings Report
The National Academy of Construction (NAC) has determined that disputes, and their accompanying inefficiencies and costs, constitute a significant pro...
Strategies and Approaches for Transformational Change
The design, construction, operation, and retrofit of buildings is evolving in response to ever-increasing knowledge about the impact of indoor environ...
The water impounded behind a dam can be used to generate power and to provide water for drinking, irrigation, commerce, industry, and recreation. Howe...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. F...
Electronic Operation and Maintenance Manuals: Workshop Summary
Public agencies, private corporations, nonprofit institutions, and other organizations regularly invest millions of dollars in acquiring buildings and...
Transformational Strategies
The U.S. government is faced with growing challenges to managing its facilities and infrastructure. A number of factors such as shrinking budgets, an ...
A Path Forward in Research
The committee that prepared this report was charged with assessing the state of fire safety research and describing the potential role of the NSF in i...
The Owner's Role in Project Management and Preproject Planning
Recurrent problems with project performance in the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) in the 1990s raised questions in Congress about the practices and p...
Technology Transfer for Blast-effects Mitigation
Concerned with the vulnerability of U.S. civilian and military personnel to terrorist bombing attacks, the U.S. Congress directed the Department of De...
The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) is America's largest integrated health care system, providing care at 1,243 health care facilities, including...
Proceedings of a Workshop
In January 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened the 2-day Workshop on Resourcing, Workforce Modeling, and Staf...
Year 2000 Progress Assessment of the PATH Program
In response to HUD's request, the NRC assembled a panel of experts, the Committee for Oversight and Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Techno...
2001 Assessment
The Department of Energy (DOE) is engaged in numerous multimillion- and even multibillion-dollar projects that are one of a kind or first of a kind an...
1999 Status Report on the DTRA/TSWG Program
The Blast Mitigation for Structures Program (BMSP) is a research and development activity conducted by the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to i...
The National Research Council's (NRC's) involvement with the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) started in 2000 with a three-year ...
Assessing Pre-Katrina Vulnerability and Improving Mitigation and Preparedness
Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and surrounding areas in August 2005, ranks as one of the nation's most devastating natural disasters. Sho...