Highlights Opportunities to Reach New Recruits A recent survey conducted by the National Institute of Building Sciences on behalf of the International Code Council (ICC) reveals information that if not addressed in the coming years, may have an impact on the public safety of thousands of communities in the United States. The survey, which consisted of 25 multiple-choice questions, went out nationwide to building code compliance professionals at the federal, regional, state and local... + continue reading
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Tuesday, August 26, 2014 - 11:33 - 0 comment(s)
NBIMS-US ™ Project Committee Vice-Chair to Speak at ABX Building industry professionals at the ArchitectureBoston Expo (ABX), to be held October 28-30 in Boston, Massachusetts, will have the opportunity to learn how building information modeling (BIM) with consensus industry standards can improve project delivery when they attend a workshop presented by Jeffrey W. Ouellette, Assoc. AIA, IES. Ouellette serves as vice chair of the National BIM Standard-United States® (NBIMS-US™) Version 3 Project... + continue reading
Monday, August 25, 2014 - 14:02 - 0 comment(s)
Institute to Hold Cybersecurity Workshops September 17-18 The time to learn more about cybersecurity for building control systems is now. The nation’s buildings are increasingly relying on building control systems (otherwise known as operational technology) that are Internet-enabled. These systems provide critical services that allow a building to meet the functional and operational needs of building occupants, but they can also be easy targets for hackers and people with malicious intent.... + continue reading
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 15:01 - 0 comment(s)
Presented by NCSEA Existing Buildings Committee Chair The National Institute of Building Sciences Multihazard Mitigation Council (MMC) announces its third webinar in its webinar series on mitigation. “Is My Building Earthquake-Safe? Obstacles to a Practical Earthquake Rating System,” presented by David Bonowitz, S.E., chair of the National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) Existing Buildings Committee and member of the MMC Board of Direction, will be held Thursday, September... + continue reading
Friday, August 22, 2014 - 09:06 - 0 comment(s)
Forty years ago today, the United States Congress authorized the establishment of the National Institute of Building Sciences when President Gerald Ford signed the Housing and Community Development Act into law on August 22, 1974. It was a different time. President Richard Nixon had just resigned two weeks before. The United States was in an oil crisis. The Vietnam War was ongoing. Three model code organizations were developing codes. Ten years before, President Lyndon Johnson had launched a... + continue reading