The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing Year 2000 Progress Assessment of the PATH Program (2000) / Chapter Skim
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For consumers to have confidence in a new technology, they must be assured that it is reliable, as well as cost effective. Home builders, who are also consumers of new housing technologies, are driven by many of the same concerns as home buyers.
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Performance issues include durability, uniformity, safety, ease of installation, structural ability, warranties, availability of technical support, and ease of maintenance. Economic issues include delivered cost, benefits to builders that influence cost, installed cost, and life-cycle cost.
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If successful, NES BIC could improve the prospects for technology diffusion in the housing industry. in addition to NES BIC, several laboratories, including the Building and Fire Research Laboratory of NTST and FPL, also have programs for developing durability test protocols for use by manufacturers.
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Factory-built housing, including modular homes built to state codes and manufactured homes built to fecleral stanciards, generally make greater use than site-built housing of innovative technologies both in construction practices and in the application of materials and equipment.
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State Agencies Although federal and state governments are generally not perceived as direct barriers to the advancement of new technologies, their actions or inaction in the areas of comprehensive planning, building codes and standarcis, infrastructure administration, taxation, and impact fees can have a significant impact on the realization of PATH goals. For example, federal and state governments enact broad enabling legislation for land use 2 The federally mandated Manufactured Home Construction and Safety Standards or HUD Code, which is administered by HUD through independent third party inspection agencies, is the federal counterpart to nationally recognized private-sector model building codes.
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PATH has already initiated some demonstration projects at the state level that have the potential of reducing regulatory barriers. Associations representing state and local interests, such as the Council of State Community Development Agencies, the Association of Major City Building Officials, the American Planning Association, and the National Conference of States on Building Codes and Standards, could provide valuable assistance by encouraging PATH-relatect efforts at the state level.
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Technology Adoption S7. Promote the use of advanced housing technologies that further PATH goals in "real life" housing developments to familiarize builders with innovations, capture installation, cost and performance data, and gain consumer feedback.
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is low compared to other industries and that the ultimate success of PATH will depend on increasing investment in basic and applied R&D. The major reasons suggested for the lack of investment are unresolved liability issues, restrictive building codes, market fragmentation, and the lack of consumer awareness.
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Technology Inventory PATH's Technology Inventory is a database of information on technological innovations in the housing industry. The inventory includes technologies currently considered to be "emerging" (i.e., with a market share of 5 percent or less)
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The committee believes a program focused on existing, underutilized technologies could be very productive. Existing technologies can be cost effective because they have usually passed through the introduction phase, and overcome some major obstacles in the building codes.
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PATH should develop standard evaluation procedures, including the benchmarking of technologies that have been successfully integrated into the housing industry, to increase the usefulness of the Technology Inventory. The effectiveness of the ToolBase program in transferring information to home builders and other audiences should be evaluated.
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1991. Advanced Housing Technology Program Phase r.
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