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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.

~Superluminal temperature response curves

What impact is outside air temperature having inside your building? Turn a year’s worth of data–34,944 data points–into a data visualization for insights on your building’s temperature response behavior.

Taxing for deferred maintenance

It cost $258 million, in today’s dollars, to build the Brooklyn Bridge in the 1870s. Today, New York City’s mayor is proposing an $800 million annual tax increase on his city’s wealthiest to pay for the billion dollar backlog in deferred maintenance.

Color-coding complex maintenance

Talking with Dr. Layne Karafantis of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum about human factors engineering initiatives in the maintenance of complex aerospace systems.

A crack in the Direct Access door?

The California energy market is changing rapidly, leading some to ask if full retail choice is an option. We discuss the policy tea leaves and implications for building professionals faced with CCA enrollment decisions.