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.
A discussion with Joe Tormos–Facilities Engineering Manager for Hines at Airbnb–about the three main components of a preventive maintenance program.
A U.S. Department of Energy analysis calculates the jump in utility bills from your building's deferred maintenance costs to be $1.16 per square foot.
Larry Summers–the 71st Secretary of the Treasury and a former Director of the National Economic Council–believes deferred maintenance is a debt burden that compounds at 7% a year.
What building operators should know about the changing energy market structure in California.
Data from 200 buildings and 208 thousand work orders reveal a "capability trap" and the reactive state of nature in building maintenance.
A chat with Prof. Jon Christensen–of UCLA's Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, the Department of History, and the Center for Digital Humanities–on what the data from $5.4 billion and 2,174 projects tells us about the progress and pitfalls of…
Many buildings can access their smart meter data, but raw data alone is not enough to find many of the energy savings opportunities hiding there.
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.