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Resilience

NIST's resilience research focuses on the impact of multiple hazards on buildings and communities and on post-disaster studies that can provide the technical basis for improved standards, codes, and practices used in the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of buildings and infrastructure systems.

NIST leads several national efforts within its Engineering Laboratory to develop guidance and tools to help communities improve the resilience of their buildings and infrastructure systems: Community Resilience, National Earthquake Hazard Reduction Program (NEHRP), Fire Protection and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), Wind Engineering, Progressive Collapse, and Disaster and Failure Studies.

NIST Resilience Publications

News

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In a Changing Climate, Resilience Research Can Help Communities ‘Make Decisions for a Better Future’

Climate change keeps NIST economist Jennifer Helgeson up at night. Not with worry, but with work. For the last several weeks, Helgeson was working on the latest report from the IPCC.

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NIST Provides Update on Champlain Towers South Investigation

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NIST’s Long Phan and Marc Levitan Receive Service to America Medal

A collage of images related to the investigation of tornadoes and the development of new tornado building codes.

Tornadoes Are Deadly. These New Building Codes Will Save Lives.

NIST Resilience Events