Continuing Support for the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment

摘要提案编号：CMS-0431279PI: Richard little4机构：美国国家科学院，日期：2004年5月27日该奖项代表了基础设施和建设环境委员会（BICE）的持续部分支持。国家研究委员会通过其工程和物理科学部于1994年建立了BICE，以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、地下建筑；人造环境与自然环境之间的关系，以及它们与人类活动的相互作用；自然灾害对已建成设施的影响；以及规划、设计、施工管理、保证和使用建筑环境的相关问题。BICE在一个独立的论坛上汇集了来自科学、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。该奖项将为委员会重新评估其战略计划《民用基础设施问题战略行动指南》提供资金，作为促进就影响关键基础设施的新问题进行对话的一种手段。作为这项工作的结果，董事会将制定一项活动计划，包括座谈会、圆桌会议和讲座，以实施BICE战略计划的目标。这些活动将与主办机构密切协调，目的是扩大知识基础，推动下列领域的政策讨论：建筑技术和业绩、资产管理、可持续社区和基础设施、信息技术在民用基础设施系统中的作用、自然和技术危害对建筑环境的影响、设施和基础设施安全和保障的防御性设计原则；基础设施投资和绩效策略，基础设施和社区设计中的社会技术因素，建筑修复技术，施工技术，以及增加对地下环境的利用。资金还将用于加强传播BICE的报告和其他BICE活动的成果，通过在几个研讨会和会议上发表演讲和论文，包括第二届保护结构免受危害国际会议、IEEE系统、人与控制论会议和第38届夏威夷国际系统科学研讨会。

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONDirectorate for Engineering4201 Wilson Boulevard, Room 545Arlington, Virginia 22230 ABSTRACTProposal #: CMS-0431279PI: Richard LittleInstitution: National Academy of ScienceDate: May 27, 2004This award represents continued partial support of the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment (BICE). The National Research Council, through its Division of Engineering and Physical Sciences, established the BICE 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. This award will provide funding for the Board to reassess its strategic plan, Guidance for Strategic Action on Civil Infrastructure Issues, as a means to foster dialog on emerging issues affecting critical infrastructure. As a result of this exercise, the Board will develop a program of activities including colloquia, roundtables, and lectures to implement the goals of the BICE strategic plan. These activities will be closely coordinated with sponsor agencies and designed to enlarge the knowledge base and advance policy discussions in areas such as building technology and performance, asset management, sustainable communities and infrastructures, the role of information technology in civil infrastructure systems, the effects of natural and technological hazards on the built environment, defensive design principles for facility and infrastructure safety and security, infrastructure investment and performance strategies, socio-technological factors in infrastructure and community design, building rehabilitation technologies, construction technologies, and increased use of the underground environment. Funding will also be used to enhance dissemination of BICE reports and the outcomes of other BICE activities through presentations and papers at several workshops and conferences including the 2nd International Conference on the Protection of Structures Against Hazards, the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, and the 38th Hawaii International Symposium on System Science.