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The building design and construction industry has an embodied carbon problem. The built environment generates 42% of annual global CO2 emissions, according to the International Energy Agency. Of those total emissions, building operations are responsible for 27% of annual global emissions, while embodied carbon emissions—the greenhouse gas emissions generated from the manufacturing, transportation, installation, maintenance,…

Many former technology executives, including the authors of this article, have left tech companies like Microsoft and Google to helm legacy industries ripe for modernization, including the buildings industry. The digital and physical worlds are increasingly overlapping, and we are now in a new era of how we interact with each other and the world…

  Originally designed as a law library and later converted into student classrooms, labs, makerspaces, lounges, and study areas, the centrally located Center for Communications and Engineering at Quinnipiac University in New Haven, Connecticut, had become dated with dark and inefficient work zones. Working within a modest project area of 7,700 square feet, Svigals +…

BAS manufacturers discuss how these systems can enhance managing and maintenance of critical systems. Building automation systems (BAS) can help with the management and maintenance of critical systems in healthcare facilities since they automate many processes. In this manufacturer roundtable, Healthcare Facilities Today speaks with BAS manufacturers about how these systems enhance management and maintenance….

  This isn’t just our own opinion. At the recently concluded Group of 20 summit, leaders of some of the world’s largest economies issued a declaration affirming that “no country should have to choose between fighting poverty and fighting for our planet.” Soon after, the World Bank unveiled an expanded mission: “To end extreme poverty…

Discover how commercial building owners are driving sustainability and carbon neutrality in response to the pandemic’s impact, changing employee demands, and governmental directives. Achieving carbon neutrality in buildings is a challenge that all commercial real estate building owners must address with clients. The steps that building owners are taking to transform their buildings not only…