A conversation with Andy Russell, Dean and Professor in the College of Arts & Sciences at SUNY Polytechnic Institute, on society’s focus on innovation, which keeps us from thinking about and crediting the maintainers who keep everything working.
Think about your building and ask yourself: where is your unlined emergency spillway?
Across dams, national parks, federal buildings, and state capital budgets, these five interactive heat maps explore and compare maintenance in America.
A conversation with Lee Vinsel, assistant professor of science and technology studies at the Stevens Institute of Technology, about the need for balance between innovation, technology, and maintenance.
From Mount Prophet to Mount Rainier, SCL rates are jumping 88% in 2017.
Texas A&M University study links design and construction-phase data through software to better facilities management and an 8.7% reduction in work order resolution times.
Google’s Waymo launch has us asking if AVs will be fast or slow, shared or owned, and will they roam the open range? The answers here would mean big changes to real estate.
If 15-30% of the work is reactive, your building is breaking the “world class” benchmark for the PM/CM ratio set in 1979.
A conversation on cybersecurity in the built environment, hacking a BMS, and what you can do to stop it, with Fred Gordy from Intelligent Buildings.
A conversation on healthy building spaces, the difference between LEED and WELL, and people and buildings, with Darin Bernstein of Cushman & Wakefield.
October is the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cyber Security Awareness Month. News of IoT device hacks and other things to think about…
Let’s send 8,000 people to Mars in Elon Musk’s SpaceX Heart of Gold rocket with the dollar savings trapped inside your building’s data.