The built environment plays an integral role in meeting society’s most basic needs of shelter, security, mobility, community, and water and waste treatment, but it also contributes significantly to ...

Is the water safe to drink, or is the air safe to breathe? Should we eat the fish we catch or the crops we grow? Do our living and workspaces pose special threats to our health? Environmental ...

FIGURE 1: Business decisions are made for a variety of reasons, including the cost of construction, energy costs, operating costs, owner preferences, past experiences, and industry trends, just to ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

Our nationally ranked degree programs give you the chance to work with top faculty, who have been recognized for both their research achievements and teaching accomplishments. We also provide ...

ST. LOUIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Introba, one of the world’s largest building engineering and consulting firms (formerly Integral Group, Ross & Baruzzini, Elementa Consulting, and Elementa Engineering), is ...

Karen Layng helped lay the new strategic foundation for the EMDC program. Today, she serves on its Industry Advisory Board and as an instructor educating future leaders in the built environment sector ...

Imagine a small house whose exterior is covered with planters full of ripe radishes, carrots, and lettuce. Indoors, another wall of plants stretches floor to ceiling. Their microbe-rich roots capture ...

Public perception tends to consider engineering a male domain, and while it is true that the majority of practicing engineers are male, for many years women have been working and having a big impact ...

April Woods, Senior VP of Florida Building Systems, WSP USA, Orlando In an era when job turnover, voluntarily or otherwise, is considered an everyday occurrence, April Woods has stayed with the same ...

The operation platform for the built environment accelerates deployment, maximizes uptime and boosts cost and operational ...