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Cracking the 80% barrier often means beating these four excuses.

How can you really, really seal any gap between your pipe and the rest of the wall that just had a hole put in it to accommodate the pipe’s path? That’s a question we haven’t asked in these pages before. Learn about the available technology, bolt/nut combinations, and more to maintain a safe long-term relationship between these elements of your building systems and your building.

Follow one firm’s path from committing to BIM to climbing a learning curve in using it to serve clients, and even on to taking an unusual step to fill what it sees as a need in the market.

In the big picture, good enough isn’t good enough.

It’s been an interesting two decades (and counting), commenting on the industry one page at a time.

U.S. shipments of residential gas storage water heaters for August 2011 decreased 8%, to 284,536 units, down from 308,646 units shipped in August 2010. Residential electric storage water heater shipments decreased 5% in August 2011, to 284,574 units, down from 299,048 units shipped in August 2010.

Where do health care facilities looking to up their sustainability profile start? Here, we shine a light on expected sites and some lesser-known resources. Archived video from conferences, toolkits for benchmarking, assessing a facility for CHP, general design guides, and even primers for executives looking to get the ball rolling … ideas and tips for good design and operations run a lot deeper than LEED®.

New findings unveiled from CBRE multi-year study with University of San Diego and McGraw-Hill construction.

Public comment sought on a proposed additional default value for the IAQ standard.

The National BIM Conference is concurrent with Ecobuild America and hosts a wide assortment of sessions.