When embarking on multifamily building projects, there is a key component to ensuring your project is successful: commissioning. Commissioning ensures your building functions per the owner’s plans, ...

For companies or leasers that own large buildings, building maintenance can seem daunting, costly, or even superfluous, particularly when building functions appear to be running smoothly. But proper ...

1. What is a Connected Building? Building management systems (BMS) emerged decades ago as the first integrated, computer-based solutions for reducing energy costs associated with lighting, HVAC, ...

If it can open or close, turn on or off, or has a motor, it can be automated. Building automation can be described as a network of a building’s mechanical, HVAC, and lighting controls normally brought ...

The newest offices are normalizing identity-centric, AI app-mediated towers. Employees can use palm scanning as biometric authentication to enter through turnstiles, while a workplace app enables ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

If you've been using PowerShell, then you know that one of the great things about it is the ability to take objects outputted from one cmdlet, easily send it to another cmdlet and have it know how to ...

A pyramid, the giant spiral, a residential-office building with vegetation sprouting from its exterior, and a structure that takes its cue from Rubik’s Cube. These are the characteristics of the four ...