Promoting Innovation 2002 Assessment of the Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (2003) / Chapter Skim
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2 Evolution of PATH
2 Evolution of PATH
Pages 9-20
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In the 1990s the DOE Office of Building Technologies, State and Community Programs worked on advancing housing technologies through its Building America program, which is similar to PATH. Though the DOE programs emphasize technologies that improve energy performance, they also address general issues affecting the development and diffusion of new technologies.
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With NAHBRC serving as the secretariat, the C&B residential working group convened a meeting in 1996 to review the national construction goals and craft implementation strategies for the housing industry. The residential working group identified reduction of production costs, shortened production cycle time, and improved durability as the goals with the highest priority for immediate action, and formalized seven strategies for achieving these goals (NAHBRC, 1998~: Establish and maintain an information infrastructure responsive to the needs of builders, designers, subcontractors, manufacturers, code officials, and consumers.
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105-275) directed HUD to cooperate with other federal agencies and the housing industry, and to engage in PATH activities that will provide research, development, testing, and engineering protocols for building materials and methods as described in the Industry Implementation Plan of the Residential National Construction Goals.
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Reduce by at least 10 percent the risk of life, injury, and property destruction from natural hazards, and decrease by at least 20 percent illnesses and injuries to residential construction workers. The PATH office updated its strategy and operating plan in 2000 to address shortcomings in the plan submitted to Congress the preceding year.
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To support this mission, the strategy set out four goals that are more closely aligned with the industry implementation plan for the residential national construction goals published in Building Better Homes at Lower Costs (NAHBRC, 1998~. That report, documenting the findings of the C&B residential working group, noted: The residential construction group identified research, development, and demonstration activities needed to implement each strategy [seven strategies noted above]
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Some are short-term studies that provide incremental progress toward PATH's goals; others are lon.~-term pro~ ~ ~ A- r ~ -— -A— r——D——~~ -— ~~ — - -— ~ D—~—~7 —- ——~ ~— -— D grams to address the development and diffusion of innovation in housing. HUD describes the activities undertaken through the PATH program as a continuum; it has grouped activities currently funded by PATH or recently completed into three categories related to their intended roles in advancing the development and diffusion of technology.
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In the first year there was an open call for a variety of research proposals, which was refined to focus on three areas designated through PATH's technology roadmapping: information technology to accelerate and streamline home building, advanced panel systems, and whole-house and building-process redesign. NSF and PATH are also interested in partnerships between research institutions, industrial enterprises, local government, and other R&D participants in the home building industry.
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dealing with the root causes of moisture damage, evaluation of foundation systems currently on the market and techniques for their installation, development of a Design Approval Primary Inspection Agency (DAPIA) -approved manufactured home design that replaces wood framing with cold-formed steel framing, and current regulatory hurdles that prevent use of manufactured homes in single-family attached developments.
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The technology scans are a series of fact sheets published by NAHBRC describing technological developments in other industries and nations and at federal laboratories. The topics include surface and interior finishes, thermal and moisture protection, safety, information technology, materials recycling and reuse, basic materials, building envelope technologies, sustainable design strategies, design and Internet tools, indoor environmental quality, electrical energy/power systems generation, plumbing, and heating, ventilating, and air conditioning.
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ToolBase Roundtables are meetings and accompanying reports on specific housing technology interest areas that intersect with PATH's work. Recent roundtables have addressed changing demographics, labor shortages and productivity in the homebuilding industry, new horizons in quality management, supply chain solutions from the senior homebuilding industry, the manufactured home, certification of products for the mature market, technology innovation, and the home appraisal industry.
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· Manufactured Housing Research Alliance (MHRA) · National Association of Home Builders Research Center (NAHBRC)
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1998. Building Better Homes at Lower Costs: The Industry Implementation Plan for the Residential National Construction Goals.
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