The control systems we use in commercial buildings today have evolved over the last 30 years to provide systems that are cost effective, and provide good performance. Beginning in the 1980s, building ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Gary Simon has lived in the same mostly rent-regulated ...

Reflecting on my career, I began in Local Authority Building Control (LABC) just as the market was about to undergo lasting change. In 1985, NHBC became the first Approved Inspector under the Building ...

The Building Safety Regulator has yet to sanction any building control bodies after assuming oversight of the sector in October 2024, Construction News ...

With most buildings still operating during the lockdown, typically without manual input, this is a perfect opportunity to elevate the use of cloud-based, remote building automation systems (BAS) for ...

Steel sheet piles have more than a century-long history of being used to support excavations for buried structures (Figure 1). During the construction process, the sheet piles traditionally provide ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... For months, St. Paul developers, elected officials and even some housing advocates have bemoaned the seemingly woeful state of the city’s new multi-family ...