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The results of ignoring deferred maintenance costs
The results of ignoring deferred maintenance costs

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.

Is deferred maintenance worth $90 billion a year?
Is deferred maintenance worth $90 billion a year?

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.

How we try maintaining nature
How we try maintaining nature

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…

The dark side of innovation, seen from Bell Labs, Mars, and maintenance
The dark side of innovation, seen from Bell Labs, Mars, and...

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.

The United States of Maintenance
The United States of Maintenance

Across dams, national parks, federal buildings, and state capital budgets, these five interactive heat maps explore and compare maintenance in America.

When maintenance is more important than innovation
When maintenance is more important than innovation

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.