A Case Study of Construction Systems Integration and Automation Technologies in Commercial Buildings

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is improving its resource allocation process by doing “microstudies” of its research impacts on society. This report is one of a series of microstudies prepared by NIST’s Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL).

This report focuses on a critical analysis of the economic impacts of past, ongoing, and planned research on BFRL’s construction systems integration and automation technologies (CONSIAT) program. The CONSIAT program is an interdisciplinary research effort within BFRL—in collaboration with the Construction Industry Institute, the private sector, other federal agencies, and other laboratories within NIST—to develop key enabling technologies, standard communication protocols, and advanced measurement technologies needed to deliver fully-integrated and automated project process (FIAPP) products and services to the construction industry.

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