Timing Matters: Design the Day for Maximum Productivity

Timing Matters: Design the Day for Maximum Productivity

The Goal Invest your energy strategically to improve productivity and results. Nano Tool Many of our productivity problems come about because we are operating on autopilot. We don’t think about what, when, or even why we are doing things; we just do them in the order in which the tasks come to us, or how…

Cracking the code of affordable housing

Cracking the code of affordable housing

A wave of residential projects rising across the country is meeting an insatiable demand, given the estimated shortage of 7.3 million homes that are accessible to low-income renters. Nationwide, 60% of all workers earn less than what’s required to afford a two-bedroom rental home, according to a June report by the National Low Income Housing…

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon  problem

Joint public-private sector effort needed to mitigate the construction sector’s embodied carbon problem

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,…

Tech Execs Shift Focus to Enlist Buildings in Tackling Climate Change

Tech Execs Shift Focus to Enlist Buildings in Tackling Climate Change

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…

University Focuses on Collaborative Spaces

University Focuses on Collaborative Spaces

  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 +…

Can Building Automation Systems Assist with Management and Maintenance?

Can Building Automation Systems Assist with Management and Maintenance?

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….