BFRL Goal

Enhanced Building Performance

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To provide the means to assure buildings work (better) throughout their useful lives. The strategy for meeting this goal is to provide knowledge, measurements and tools to optimize building life cycle performance.

The first strategic focus to achieve the goal of Enhanced Building Performance is to develop measurement methods, fundamental data, simulation models, and life cycle environmental and economic analysis tools to support Healthy and Sustainable Buildings.  The second strategic focus for achieving Enhanced Building Performance is to develop, test, integrate, and demonstrate open Cybernetic Building Systems. The word "cybernetics" comes from the Greek word "steersman" and is defined as the science of control and communication of complex systems. A Cybernetic Building System involves energy management, fire detection, security, transport systems, energy providers, one or more utilities, an aggregator, and numerous service providers, and information handling and complex control at many different levels. Component Programs: Healthy and Sustainable Buildings Cybernetic Building Systems   Contact: A. Hunter Fanney, Chief Building Environment Division 301-975-5864 hunter.fanney@nist.gov
	Residential Fuel Cell Undergoing Testing in a NIST Laboratory
	Three-dimensional maps indicate the location of excess moisture within a wall.