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  The global economy is undergoing a massive transformation as the world adjusts to and seeks to mitigate the impacts of the climate crisis. Across many industries, this transition is already well underway. A recent study showed that renewable energy farms are much more efficient and lower cost than coal plants, GM recently committed to…

Cool roofs were first introduced into building codes and standards more than 20 years ago, around the time the Energy Star Roofing Program was launched to drive market adoption of cool roofing materials. Several of the earlier state codes and national standards offered compliance credits for the installation of cool roofing materials on commercial buildings…

Lighting control design insights By referencing a standard practice, design and documentation can be simplified to reduce confusion and errors during construction, commissioning and use of lighting control systems. ANSI/IES LP-16-22 provides a standard for documenting lighting control design intent. The control intent narrative and the sequence of operations are two documents outlined in ANSI/IES…

In this office building, control intent and sequence of operations for a lighting control system were created A lighting control matrix can be a valuable tool for documenting control intent and a sequence of operations. Often it is easier for contractors, lighting controls manufacturers and design team members to track lighting control requirements on a…

    What do you do when someone in your company is complaining to you because you did something wrong? Or maybe someone did something to you, and now you’re the one complaining. Are these easy conversations to have? Usually not. What makes them difficult is that we have relationships with people in our companies….

Computational tools—which harness the power of computation to streamline decision making—were once considered “nice to have.” Now they are integral to the design process. So why should clients care? The reason is simple. Computation gives planners and designers the ability to quickly translate thousands or even millions of data sets into actionable insights. Not only…