Human Factors The largest industry in the USA is real estate including design, construction, facility management and building operations. It is 13% of the USA GDP and its share of GDP is $2,265.7 billion. However, for many years, there have been an absence of qualified facility engineers and technicians in the USA as well as … More CHALLENGES OF THE BUILDING INDUSTRY
Back in the 1870’s and 1880’s Direct Current (DC) power systems dominated. Leading the DC industry were iconic inventors and businessmen; Thomas Edison, Werner von Siemens, and Charles Brush. Thomas Edison (who held 1,093 patents for inventions) developed the first commercial electric power transmission system which used direct current (DC). After he deployed around 190 … More The Resurgence of DC Power
Imagine a building where the major components have photovoltaics embedded in the materials and products used in construction; the result being significant onsite production of solar power. We’re all familiar with or have at least seen solar panels on a building roof or a parking canopy. Solar panels have really been the face of solar … More Building with Sunshine
There would seem to be a very good case for bringing all the facility data into a unified database architecture and putting into practice standard methodologies and processes to manage the data. … More Who Manages The Building Data
We will see the first steps of heightened automation and innovation in a range of companies creating new automation systems and new analytic tools which will incorporate IT tenants and platforms. … More The Machines Take Over the Buildings
What’s Their Role in Construction … More What Building Owners Want and What’s Their Role in Construction
What took us so long?!? … More Self-Learning Building Automation
