This month, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Building America New Construction Support program, which provides technical support to residential, commercial, and industrial builders.
 
“By offering direct access to experts from DOE and the U.S. National Laboratories, the program will help its partners build faster, reduce costs, and deliver savings to everyday Americans,” according to a DOE news release. Builders can bring specific technical challenges to DOE and get matched with experts equipped to solve them.
 
There is no cost to builders. Technical support areas include product design and materials innovation, advanced digital and AI-driven tools to identify design issues early and automate workflows, and factory optimization.
 
The program builds on more than 26 years of Building America’s work supporting the building industry and on DOE’s Advanced Building Construction initiative, which has funded 29 projects validating off-site construction and retrofit technologies since 2018.
 
The program is open to builders of all sizes. Builders and industry stakeholders can request technical assistance through the Building America New Construction Support form on the Building America website.