For organizations managing a campus such as educational facilities, healthcare facilities, commercial real estate, utilities, and municipalities managing public works, storm sewer systems, and parks which are characterized by having many different utilities and and […]
Last week the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) released a new report in the Failure to Act series “Electric Infrastructure Investment Gaps in a Rapidly Changing Environment” that estimates the investment gap through 2039 […]
In its 2017 Infrastructure Report Card, the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) assigned an overall grade of D+ to U.S. infrastructure. Addressing the problem of bringing national infrastructure up to a standard where it […]
Software tools have become the standard for detailed design. Software has also made significant inroads into many aspects of construction. In contrast conceptual design still relies for the most part on “pencil and back of […]
Worldwide there is increasing demand from building and infrastructure owners for service provision throughout the entire life cycle of a building or infrastructure. This represents a distinct break with the design/build tradition which has dominated […]
The Asia Pacific region is a primary driver of global urban development trends and is where some of the world’s the most ambitious attempts to direct those trends to national development goals. Increasingly, smart city […]
In response to a recommendation from the Governor’s Task Force on Grid Resiliency to “scope out a Utility 2.0 pilot proposal”, the Energy Future Coalition (EFC) prepared recommendations for a smart grid pilot project that […]
The White House has just released a report The Economic Benefits of Increasing Electric Grid Resilience to Weather Outages that was prepared by the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and the Department of Energy’s Office […]