Continuing Support for the Board on Infrastructure and the Constructed Environment

BICE的研究和活动计划协助政府在建筑和建筑行业以及更广泛的基础设施服务领域提供适当的领导。它提供了一种机制，汇集了国家专业、学术和政府社区的专业知识，以解决具有国家意义的重大问题。BICE项目的重点领域是：社会技术接口和基础设施系统分析；建筑环境对人类健康和生产力的影响；设施和基础设施性能及其测量；公共空间建设；提高建筑环境的多灾种恢复能力；信息技术与基础设施系统的融合；可持续发展的社区与基础设施；地下空间的建设与利用；极端事件对建筑环境的影响；BICE本身并不进行研究；然而，董事会确实对为政府赞助商进行研究的BICE委员会和小组负有监督责任。BICE为来自广泛的科学、工程和社会科学专业的专家提供了一个独立的、多学科的论坛，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来探索新出现的问题，以响应政府机构的具体要求或主动采取行动。为了实现其目标，BICE开展了持续的战略规划练习，并召开了各种研讨会、专题讨论会和信息传播活动。更广泛的影响BICE对精心规划、建造和运营的基础设施在维持我国及其组成城市和社区的经济和环境健康方面必须发挥的作用非常感兴趣。为了不断提高我们对建筑环境及其社会影响的理解，BICE通过赞助研讨会、座谈会和其他互动公共论坛，促进政策制定者和实践者之间的讨论。

ABSTRACTThe BICE's program of studies and activities assists government to provide appropriateleadership in the building and construction industries and in the broader area of infrastructure services. It offers a mechanism for bringing together the expertise of the nation's professional, academic, and government communities to address major issues of national significance. The focus areas of the BICE's program are:o Socio-technical interfaces and infrastructure systems analysiso Impact of the built environment on human health and productivityo Facility and infrastructure performance and its measuremento Security of facilities, infrastructure, and public spaceso Improving multi-hazard resilience of the built environmento Integration of information technology and infrastructure systemso Sustainable communities and infrastructureso Construction and utilization of underground spaceo Effects of extreme events on the built environmento Construction methods and operations. The BICE does not conduct studies per se; however, the board does have oversight responsibility for BICE committees and panels that do conduct studies for government sponsors. The BICE provides an independent, multidisciplinary forum for experts from a wide range of scientific, engineering, and social science specialties to address problems and issues of infrastructure and the built environment. The BICE provides a unique structure to explore emerging issues in response to specific requests from government agencies or to act on its own initiative. In pursuit of its goals, BICE conducts on-going strategic planning exercises and convenes a variety of workshops, symposia, and information dissemination activities.Broader ImpactThe BICE is vitally interested in the role that well planned, -constructed, and -operatedinfrastructure must play in sustaining the economic and environmental health of our nation and the cities and communities that comprise it. In the interest of continually advancing our understanding of the built environment, and its social implications, the BICE fosters discussion among policy-makers and practitioners through the sponsorship of workshops, colloquia, and other interactive public forums.