Johns Hopkins University Meets Two-Thirds of Energy Needs with New Solar Project

Johns Hopkins University Meets Two-Thirds of Energy Needs with New Solar Project

Supported by a landmark commitment from Johns Hopkins University, a brand-new solar facility is now up and running, providing the university with two-thirds of its annual electricity use from clean power. With this agreement—one of the most substantial clean energy pledges by any higher education institution in the U.S.—Johns Hopkins achieved its goal to cut greenhouse gas…

Merge ROI Into Maintenance

Merge ROI Into Maintenance

  Change your perspective to move maintenance away from a pure expense and enhance overall safety.  Organizations acknowledge that a safety-first approach to plant operations is invariably underpinned by a robust inspection and maintenance plan. But could they take their investment in the associated technology a step further and understand the return it is yielding…

Ensuring safe and effective flood cleanup

Ensuring safe and effective flood cleanup

  The variety of extreme weather that North American facilities can be exposed to comes with a wide range of risks and threats, particularly as the planet continues to see the ongoing effects of climate change. Extreme heat and wildfires are big summer risks but so, too, are floods and flash floods, which can be…

Keep it quiet

Keep it quiet

  During lockdown, one thing that many people observed was how noticeably quieter the world was. We’d become used to the background hum of traffic noises, voices, ringing phones, business and industry, and only when it was gone did we realise how quiet, quiet could be.  The World Health Organisation has labelled noise as the…

Ten ways to improve your project execution

Ten ways to improve your project execution

Imagine this… you are in a kick-off meeting with your project owner, partners, and subcontractors. A vision of project outcomes has been shared and agreed upon. However, there is a lack of alignment on actually how to achieve these process, design, and execution outcomes. With cost, schedule, cultural and technical differences looming over the team,…