Technical Assessment of the Capital Facility Needs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (2023) / Chapter Skim
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Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment to conduct this assessment. NIST and the National Academies entered into a contract on September 1, 2021, and the National Academies established the Committee on Technical Assessment of the Capital Facility Needs of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, composed of diverse experts in the fields of architecture, construction, engineering economics, facility management and condition assessment, building performance, building design standards, building operations and maintenance, federal planning and budgeting, scientific research infrastructure, infrastructure lifetime management, asset management, and metrology.
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In addition, to better inform capital facility planning and operational sustainment of NIST's two campuses, the ad hoc study committee shall review comparable available facility condition methodologies and metrics of other historically designated federal agencies at an overall portfolio level, and provide recommendations in determining the minimum levels of funding (two components – for individual building and utility infrastructure capitalization/ re-capitalization and for the campuses' overall annual operations/maintenance/repair [OMR] needs)
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Second, in a resource-constrained environment -- the government not having infinite funds available and being confronted by many pressing needs -- if NIST is doing great work in substandard facilities, why is this a pressing problem? TABLE 1-1 Laboratories Visited at Boulder and Gaithersburg Campuses Boulder Campus Gaithersburg Campus Wireless Communications Coexistence Testbed National Fire Research Laboratory Thin Film Deposition Laboratory National Center for Neutron Research Transmission and scanning electron microscopes Radiation Physics Laboratory Facilities management headquarters Engineering mechanics X-ray Spectroscopy Laboratory Steam and chilled water plant Atom Probe Tomography Laboratory Industrial services building High Power Laser Laboratory Advanced Measurements Laboratory Superconducting Quantum Circuit and Quantum Sensors Metrology Laboratory (line scale calibration)
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Chapter 5 describes the planning practices for portfolio management and capital projects, including the roles of strategic plans and master plans. It addresses incorporation of enterprise risk management, the Energy Independence and Security Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act, as well as implementation processes of the master plan, particularly under the historically constrained budgets.
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In addition, to better inform capital facility planning and 4, 5, and 6 operational sustainment of NIST's two campuses, the ad hoc study committee shall review comparable available facility condition methodologies and metrics of other historically designated federal agencies at an overall portfolio level, and provide recommendations in determining the minimum levels of funding (two components -- for individual building and utility infrastructure capitalization/ re-capitalization and for the campuses' overall annual operations/ maintenance/repair (OMR) needs)
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