Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment

国家研究理事会通过其工程和技术系统委员会设立了基础设施和建筑环境委员会。 BICE成立于1994年，旨在调查应用于城市系统和服务的技术，科学和公共政策问题;地上和地下建筑;建筑和自然环境之间的关系及其与人类活动的相互作用;自然灾害对建筑设施的影响;以及建筑环境的规划、设计、建造、管理、维护和使用等相关问题。 BICE汇集了来自广泛的科学，工程和社会科学学科的专业知识，以解决基础设施和建筑环境的问题。 BICE提供了一个独特的结构，以回应政府的具体要求，或在公共或私营部门的支持下主动采取行动。 为了实现其目标，天主教儿童局计划为研究、讲习班、专题讨论会和各种信息传播活动进行持续的战略规划。 BICE还将与NSF在纽约大学瓦格纳研究生院设立的民用基础设施研究所（ICIS）开展综合协调活动。

The National Research Council, through its Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, has established the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE). The BICE was established in 1994 to investigate questions of technology, science, and public policy applied to urban systems and services; above ground and underground construction; the relationship between the constructed and natural environments and their interaction with human activities; the effects of natural hazards on constructed facilities; and related issues of planning, design, construction, management, surety, and use of the built environment. The BICE brings together in an independent forum expertise from a wide range of scientific, engineering, and social science disciplines to address problems and issues of infrastructure and the build environment. The BICE provides a unique structure to respond to specific requests from government, or to act on its own initiative with public or private sector support. In pursuit of its goals, BICE plans to conduct on-going strategic planning for studies, workshops, symposia, and a variety of information dissemination activities. The BICE will also develop integrated and coordinated activities with the Institute for Civil Infrastructure (ICIS), established by NSF at the Wagner Graduate School at New York University.