Acronyms
3DCP | three-dimensional printing of concrete |
AFDD | Automated fault detection and diagnostics |
AFM | atomic force microscopy |
AISC | American Institute of Steel Construction |
AM | additive manufacturing |
ARC | alternatives for resilient communities |
ASCE | American Society of Civil Engineers |
ASHRAE | American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers |
ASMI | Athena Sustainable Materials Institute |
ASR | alkali-silica reaction |
ASTM | American Society for Testing and Materials |
ATLSS | Advanced Technology for Large Structural Systems |
AWC | American Wood Council |
BACnet | Building Automation and Control Networks |
BEES | Building for Environmental and Economic Sustainability |
BIRDS NEST | Building Industry Reporting and Design for Sustainability Neutral Environmental Software Tool |
BOB | burn observation bubble |
BRI | Building Research Institute of Japan |
CAL FIRE | California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection |
CASA | chemical assessment of surface and air |
CFD | computational fluid dynamics |
CoE | Center of Excellence |
CONTAM | Contaminant transport analysis software |
CPSC | Consumer Product Safety Commission |
CREME | concrete rheology enabling metrology |
CRP | Community Resilience Program |
CWE | computational wind engineering |
DAD | data-assisted design |
DoD | Department of Defense |
DOE | Department of Energy |
EDGe$ | Economic Decision Guide software |
EIB | embedded intelligence in buildings |
EL | Engineering Laboratory |
EPA | Environmental Protection Administration |
ERI | engineered materials for resilient infrastructure |
ETABS | A structural analysis software platform |
FaTIMA | fate and transport of indoor microbiological aerosols |
FDS | Fire Dynamics Simulator |
FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Administration |
FRD | Fire Research Division |
GEER | Geotechnical Extreme events reconnaissance |
GWP | Global warming potential |
HFC | hydrofluorocarbon |
HP | heat pump |
HVAC | heating, ventilation, and air conditioning |
IAQ | indoor air quality |
IBAL | Intelligent Building Agents Laboratory |
IBHS | Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety |
ICC | International Code Council |
IDIQ | indefinite delivery indefinite quantity |
IN-CORE | interdependent networked community resilience modeling environment |
IoT | Internet of Things |
KED | light-emitting diode |
MB-HP | mini-breadboard heat pump |
MSSD | Materials and Structural Systems Division |
NCSTAR | National Construction Safety Team Report |
NEES | Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation |
NEHRI | Natural Hazard Engineering Resilience Institute |
NEHRP | National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program |
NFPA | National Fire Protection Association |
NFRL | National Fire Research Laboratory |
NIST | National Institute of Standards and Technology |
NRC | Nuclear Regulatory Commission |
NREL | National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
NSF | National Science Foundation |
NZE | net-zero energy |
NZERTF | Net-Zero Energy Residential Test Facility |
OA | other agency |
OSTP | Office of Scientific and Technology Policy |
PBD | performance-based design |
PCI | Precast/Prestressed Concrete Institute |
PE | polyethylene |
PERFORM | Performance-based engineering research for multi-hazards |
PETG | polyethylene terephthalate glycol |
RUF | residential upholstered furniture |
SPHERE | Simulated photodegradation via high energy radiant exposure |
SPUMH | Structural performance under multi-hazards |
SRM | standard reference material |
SSRC | Structural Stability Research Council |
TMAP | Technology Maturation Accelerator Program |
TRNSYS | Transient system simulation |
USFDA | U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
USGS | U.S. Geological Survey |
V2G | vehicle-to-grid |
WUI | wildland urban interface |
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