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Millen Paschich

Plug load hardware or pamphlets?
Plug load hardware or pamphlets?

Submeters show savvy power strips drop energy demand 9% per day over a 105-day study across three tenants and 57,000 square feet.

What Toyota’s lean principles tell us about building ops
What Toyota’s lean principles tell us about building ops

Richard Hart–Strategic Energy Management at Cascade Energy–discusses how building operators can save time and money by cherry picking the best ideas from lean manufacturing.

Sewing & Welding & Teaching Skill
Sewing & Welding & Teaching Skill

Steven Lubar–Professor of American Studies, Brown University–discusses what it’s like to take 13 first-years from the museum to the machine shop in search of a new understanding of skill.

Infrastructure in the age of supercells
Infrastructure in the age of supercells

Thaddeus Miller–Assistant Professor, Arizona State University–discusses the infrastructure crossroads facing the United States.

Missile alert lessons for active shooter alarms
Missile alert lessons for active shooter alarms

My brother was in Hawaii, and this is what it felt like: "A full blast 10 on the scary scale. Somehow, some way, we were expecting life would change, and we were hoping to survive."

Bitcoin energy is 234 kWh per transaction
Bitcoin energy is 234 kWh per transaction

How many kWh were used on Bitcoin energy yesterday, and were any of them hiding in your building's load curve?

Maintenance procedures that actually work
Maintenance procedures that actually work

Dr. Hodkiewicz–of The University of Western Australia–and team asked 176 maintainers about their work and what makes procedures effective.

The dollar cost of weather in your utility bills
The dollar cost of weather in your utility bills

Fred Fox, founder of Planalytics, tells us the obvious, that "weather is the envelope we live in." The impact it has on Amazon sales–and your utility bills–is not.

Space station maintenance on Skylab
Space station maintenance on Skylab

NASA astronaut Dr. Edward Gibson–who spent a record 84 days living in space–discusses the repair and maintenance of America’s first space station, Skylab.