Community Involvement

The Institute for Building Technology and Safety (IBTS) is pleased to announce our new five-year strategic plan following its approval by our Board of Directors on December 14, 2018. The 2019-2024 plan was developed over…

Through our involvement with community resilience assessments and planning at the local government level, the IBTS resilience team has discovered that local governments can struggle with resilience project prioritization and selection. Given the variety of…

IBTS recently set the strategic goal of furthering its work in the resilience space. What does this mean? We’re going to put a greater focus on the creation of resilient and sustainable communities throughout the…

In January 2019, the IBTS team, in partnership with the National Governors Association (NGA), will bring a group of experts together in Washington, D.C. to discuss resilience—lifecycle strategies and actions that address the mitigation, response,…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently accepted IBTS as a Market Partner for their Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) Working Group. This group is comprised of state and local governments, as well as…