Building and Fire Research Portal - OverviewThe mission of the building and fire research programs at NIST is to anticipate and meet the measurement science, standards, and technology needs of the U.S. building and fire safety industries in areas of critical national need. Strategic goals include net-zero energy high-performance buildings, advancing infrastructure delivery and improving construction productivity through information integration and automation technologies, sustainable infrastructure materials, innovative fire protection, and disaster-resilient structures and communities, which includes work on hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires. NIST has specific statutory responsibilities for fire prevention and control, earthquake hazards reduction, windstorm impact reduction, and building and fire safety investigations. More information may be available on the Engineering Laboratory homepage. Instruments
The National Fire Research Laboratory
The National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL) is adding a unique facility that will serve as a center of excellence for fire performance of … more
Line Heat-Source Guarded Hot Plate
The 1-meter guarded hot-plate apparatus measures thermal conductivity of building insulation. This facility provides for absolute measurement of … more
Large-Scale Structures Testing Facility
The large-scale structures testing facility consists of a universal testing machine (UTM), and a 13.7m-high reaction buttress equipped with a … more
Fire Emulator/Detector Evaluator
The fire emulator/detector evaluator (FE/DE) is a computer-controlled flow tunnel used to re-create the environments surrounding detectors in the … more
Large Fire Research Facility
As the federal government's principal fire research laboratory, EL maintains some of the country's best and most extensive fire testing … more
Radiative Gasification Apparatus
This apparatus, developed at EL, determines gasification rate (mass loss rate) of a horizontally oriented specimen exposed in a nitrogen … more Software
IFC File Analyzer
The IFC File Analyzer generates a spreadsheet from an IFC file. IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is the data exchange standard used to facilitate … more
SteelVis
SteelVis is a viewer for CIS/2 files and a translator from CIS/2 to IFC files. Uses are described below. The CIMSteel … more
Software: FDS and Smokeview
Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically … more
Software: LoopDA
LoopDA is a natural ventilation design tool developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Version 3.0 is an update to the … more
Software: CONTAM
CONTAM is a multizone indoor air quality and ventilation analysis computer program designed to help you determine: (a) airflows: infiltration, … more
Software: CFAST
The Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport, CFAST, is a computer program that fire investigators, safety officials, engineers, architects … more |
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