Browsing: Buildings

If anything, 2022 was challenging for business in ways rarely seen. Costs up, inflation up, employment up and down, revenue…

Warming sunlight has been used to heat buildings since buildings were built. During the 1970s energy crunch, architects were seeking…

The climate change discussion has centered on GHG (greenhouse gases), and particularly CO2 (carbon dioxide). Construction, apparently, is a major…

Technologies can work together provide more benefits than the sum of their parts. In the “old days” when mainframes were…

Nights are getting shorter, as winter passes the torch to spring and summer. But the workday is still a controlling…

Waiting can be the most frustrating part of a construction job. The crew is ready, the equipment is on standby,…

Everything digital—and almost every resource—is now floating in the cloud. Consumer and business apps are resident in the cloud, data…

Sensors are enabling the increasingly connected world. By allowing the collection of data, sensors open the door to more informed…

Are we “at the edge” or “going over the edge” with computing technology? Or not even close to the edge?…

Concrete is a heavy building material. Or not. When concrete is filled with air, like a balloon, it can be…