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The rise of fuel-efficient vehicles is having a positive impact on the environment and people’s pocketbooks, long-term. But one challenge…
Warming sunlight has been used to heat buildings since buildings were built. During the 1970s energy crunch, architects were seeking…
The current systems for food production, transportation, and storage involves a lot of waste—including food waste and resource waste. How…
https://youtu.be/Jxku97QmFtw When you compare any of the engineering and construction labor statistics from Deloitte, the Associated Builders and Contractors, or…
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…
The statistics can be scary. 4,764 workers died on the job in 2020. Employees in construction and extraction occupations accounted…
How digital twins and other emerging technologies are making grids work smarter. The electricity grid is a complex, critical infrastructure…
Nights are getting shorter, as winter passes the torch to spring and summer. But the workday is still a controlling…
Smart cities are on the rise, as funding is going to improve everything from broadband to infrastructure. Case in point:…