CSI and CSC have released a 2010 edition of UniFormat, a method of arranging construction information based on functional elements, or parts of a facility characterized by their functions, without regard to the materials and methods used to accomplish them.
The standard, developed by BOMA International and the Society of Industrial and Office Realtors® provides guidance on how to measure the floor area of industrial buildings.
Gibraltar Airport is famous for two things: transporting British tourists to and from the Iberian Peninsula and its proximity to the city it serves. While incredibly convenient, this close proximity–less than 1/3 of a mile–creates some major problems.
The backlash proved too much to go ahead with opening this facility.
Dow Chemical, DuPont, Georgia-Pacific, IBM, Interface Inc., and Pitney Bowes Inc. are among the group of corporate energy buyers that reached a collective goal of purchasing 1,000 megawatts of power generated from renewable energy sources.
The company marked the completion of the steelwork phase of an expansion of its world headquarters facility last Friday.
The first infrastructure project to move forward under the new federal economic stimulus package was announced earlier this week on 2/24/09.
Lee College has entered into an energy savings performance contract with Johnson Controls, Inc. to perform energy retrofits on its campus in Baytown, TX.
The report, “Federal R&D Agenda for Net-Zero Energy, High-Performance Green Buildings,” was produced by the National Science and Technology Council’s Buildings Technology Research and Development Subcommittee.
The International Code Council (ICC) has approved 23 building and fire code changes based on recommendations from the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) investigation of the collapse of the World Trade Center (WTC) on 9/11.