The PAE building is the world's largest commercial Living Building and the only one engineered to survive a magnitude-7.5 quake with barely a scratch. One of several goals of the PAE Living Building ...

Over the last decade, the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED program has established itself as the preeminent industry standard for rating green buildings. Despite LEED’s remarkable success, however, ...

What would happen if your engineering team stepped into another firm’s facilities with the goal of identifying energy inefficiencies? In the same vein, what would happen if engineers from another firm ...

Mayor Kasim Reed announced recently that the city of Atlanta continues to lead the country with 111 million square feet of building space committed to reducing energy and water usage through the ...

As part of President Joe Biden’s National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan, released March 3, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing the “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge,” a call to ...

Recently, the Biden-Harris administration initiated the Clean Air in Buildings Challenge as a part of its National COVID-19 Preparedness Plan. The challenge is for building owners to improve indoor ...

Enrollment and infrastructure challenges continue to put pressure on the five-campus University of Massachusetts, where enrollment gains over the last 20 years have pretty much evaporated. During a ...

Over the past 20 years, I’ve learned a great deal—sometimes the very hard way. Now I’m in the position of having advice to impart, just like my father did for me years ago. These are some important ...