"Research Faculty (PREP0003324)"

Job Details

Johns Hopkins, founded in 1876, is America's first research university and home to nine world-class academic divisions working together as one university.

Salary: $160 per hour

Description

PREP Research Associate

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards (NIST) Professional Research Experience (PREP) program. NIST recognizes that its research staff may wish to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest, thus requires that such institutions must be the recipient of a PREP award. The PREP program requires staff from a wide range of backgrounds to work on scientific research in many areas. Employees in this position will perform technical work that underpins the scientific research of the collaboration.

Research Title:

Cost Estimation for Enhanced Building Performance

The work will entail:

The researcher will play a critical role in advancing the NIST mission to improve the quality of life through measurement science for enhanced resilience to natural disasters. The scope of work includes (1) advancing the implementation of the NIST framework for economic evaluation of recovery-based seismic design (NIST SP 1277) for existing buildings; (2) developing order-of-magnitude estimates to support implementation of the NIST Hazard Mitigation Technology (HMM) for reducing building vulnerability to damage from Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) fires; and (3) developing repair cost estimation models the to improve building component damage consequences within NIST’s Nonstructural Element Database (NED).

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Extend benefit-cost analysis of recovery-based design for new buildings to existing buildings through the development of case studies for retrofitting existing buildings for functional recovery
• Develop cost estimates for the replacement or retrofit of building components to improve residential building performance from WUI fires
• Develop repair cost estimate models and/or workflows that facilitate the quantification of repair costs for various non-structural building components.
• Support NIST-led economic evaluation of benefits and costs of design archetypes or case studies
• Writing and presenting results for academic, government, industry, and general audiences

Qualifications

• Industry experience in construction cost estimation is required.
• Proficiency in technical writing and presentations to research and practitioner audiences.
• Experience or interest in working in a collaborative and interdisciplinary team.

Application Instructions

Please upload the following with your application:

• CV/Resume

Please limit C.V to 3 pages only and ONLY include a valid email address for your contact info. Please DO NOT include telephone numbers, home address or photos on your resume.