An Assessment of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research Laboratory Fiscal Year 2010 (2010) / Chapter Skim
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The BFRL's ability to stimulate new scientific and technological advances in high-performance buildings is constrained by major uncertainties about policy changes or by the presence of conflicting policies at the national, state, or local level. For example, countries with building energy performance standards more stringent than those in the United States have assumed leadership in this area, a position governed more by policy than by advances in technology or metrology.
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Also coming to the NIST site is a new residential test facility for evaluating methods of design and construction targeted at achieving net-zero energy buildings. This facility will allow the BFRL to measure the performance of various energy conservation technologies and techniques and that of local energy generation technologies.
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The current budget plan appears to be adequate for immediate facility, equipment, and programmatic needs. Recent budget increases provide opportunities for benchmarking BFRL facilities and equipment against international facilities and for carefully choosing investments in facilities and equipment in order for the BFRL to remain in a leadership position internationally.
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RECOMMENDATIONS The recommendations of the panel based on its assessment of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory are as follows: The BFRL staff should continue to manage and prioritize projects using the Stage-Gate process, to refine the metrics of this tool based on experience with project outcomes, to do postmortem analyses of projects to learn from the use of the process, and to incorporate clear milestones with specific time frames into the resulting roadmap. Now that some evaluation standards related to codes and standards development have been in place for a number of years, the BFRL should compare actual performance and outcomes with those estimated using these methodological standards.
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Additional resources are needed to support the wind program; the program continues to be handicapped by the lack of a wind tunnel. Recommendations applicable to each of the BFRL Strategic Priority Areas are presented in their respective chapters.
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