Office of Applied Economics

Staff

The OAE staff have competence in economics, financial analysis, operations research, cost engineering, and software development. The OAE provides expert consultation, user-friendly decision support software, and written reports of its research findings. Staff members publish research results in NIST publications as well as in professional and trade journals. Staff members also participate in technical conferences and seminars, and work in national, voluntary standards-making committees.

Benefit-cost analysis, life-cycle costing, multi-criteria decision analysis, risk analysis, and econometrics are techniques the OAE uses to evaluate new technologies, processes, governmental programs, legislation, and codes and standards to determine efficient alternatives and to measure their economic impacts. Research areas include energy conservation and environmental assessment in buildings, fire safety, automation, seismic design, and building economics. Products include reports of research findings; standard methods and guidelines for making economic evaluations; audiovisuals that teach and illustrate methods in practice; and decision support software with documentation.

R. Chapman, Chief

D. Butry
J. Helgeson
A. Huang
J. Kneifel
P. Lavappa
B. Lippiatt
H. Marshall, GR
C. Pardo
A. Rushing
D. Thomas