§18801 Building, Training, and Assessment Centers

Summary

The Secretary must give grants to colleges and Tribal colleges to create building training and assessment centers. These centers will find ways to make buildings use less energy and have less environmental impact, promote new building technologies, train engineers, architects, building scientists, permitting and enforcement officials, and building technicians, help colleges train technicians, support research on using alternative energy and local power sources for buildings (especially energy-heavy ones), and work with state technical schools, community colleges, Tribal colleges, and local NIFA offices so every U.S. region is served. The program must be coordinated with industrial research and assessment centers and other federal programs to avoid repeating work, and, when practical, the new centers should be located with those industrial centers. Congress provided $10,000,000 for fiscal year 2022 for this program, and the money stays available until spent.