High-Performance Buildings & Automation

RSS

Nobody goes looking for it, but sometimes it finds you. Do the procedural heavy lifting ahead of time.

In today’s complex web of regulations, equipment and fuel options, and traditional threats to facility operations, it only makes sense to get up to speed on CHP.

As energy codes evolve, efficient lighting systems will become more ‘need’ than ‘want.’

From support to semantics, the road to “plug and play” isn’t always smooth but the journey continues.

While they sometimes fall under the radar, these small systems can provide big gains.

Skydiving and mission critical facilities have more in common than you think.

When a community-based hospital adds a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) so its most fragile patients can be cared for in-house rather than at a regional center 50 miles away, a family places enormous trust in the hospital’s ability to meet its baby’s health care needs.

In the ever-evolving world of building information modeling, putting process before technology solves fundamental issues. Read on as the authors touch on Agile, common roles, and BIM’s fate over the course of a project.

A pharmaceutical company looked to its new 350,000-sq-ft world headquarters as a place to further improve sustainability and reduce energy consumption.

The right questions might give you some design maneuverability among tight requirements.