Baseline Measures for Improving Housing Durability.
Baseline Measures for Improving Housing Durability.
(730 K)
Chapman, R. E.; Izzo, C. A.
NISTIR 6870; 120 p. September 2002.
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Keywords:
housing; building economics; construction; costs;
durability; economic analysis; maintenance and repair;
residential improvements; service life
Abstract:
The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing
(PATH), a program of the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development, is a public/private partnership in
which leaders of the home building, product
manufacturing, insurance and financial industries join
forces with representatives of federal agencies
concerned with housing. PATH is concerned with the
following three goals: (1) developing new housing
technologies; (2) disseminating information about new
and existing housing technologies; and (3) studying and
establishing mechanisms for sustained housing technology
development. The objectives of PATH are to improve the
quality, affordability, durability, and energy
efficiency of today's new and existing homes; to
strengthen the technology infrastructure of the United
States; and to help create the next generation of
American housing. To accomplish these objectives, PATH
has established a vision for improving housing
affordability, energy efficiency and environmental
protection, durability, and disaster resistance and
safety. It is essential to have baseline data for the
PATH vision to determine the success of actions taken to
improve the competitiveness of the residential sector of
the U.S. construction industry. This report provides a
detailed set of baseline measures for improving housing
durability. Specifically, it examines the key sources of
construction industry data and extracts from them a
single, consistent set of baseline measures that can be
used to monitor progress towards improving housing
durability.
Building and Fire Research Laboratory
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899