- Author
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Kushner, L. M.
- Title
- Welcome to NBS.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBS BSS 001
January 1970
- Book or Conf
- National Bureau of Standards. Performance of Buildings - Concept and Measurement. Proceedings of the 1st Conference in a Series of Conferences on Man and His Shelter. September 23-25, 1968,
Gaithersburg, MD,
Walton, W. W.; Cadoff, B. C., Editors,
3-4 p.,
1970
- Keywords
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building design
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housing
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planning
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architecture
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specifications
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standards
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test methods
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structures
- Abstract
- It is my pleasure to welcome you to the National Bureau of Standards. I bring you greetings from Dr. Astin, our Director, and his wishes for a most successful meeting. This session on the Performance of Buildings is the first of what we hope will be a series devoted to the broader subject of Man and his Shelter. Man has always sought to improve his shelter by gradually utilizing incremental improvements in technology. Today, however, with the tremendously rapid advances of modern technology and the exponential growth of population, the slow progress of the past is no longer acceptable. It cannot keep pace with the rapid changes of today's needs.