Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, the building and design industry has been parsing out the legislation’s various tools and tax incentives that are newly available to building professionals who wish to apply strategic, high-performance planning to their projects.
Following BOILER 2022, I was in awe of what we accomplished with planning and executing a new conference and trade show coming out of a global pandemic but realized we needed to quickly transition to how we were going to top the inaugural event.
While many design requirements associated with current good manufacturing practice (cGMP) spaces are required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), European Medicines Agency (EMA), and others, the engineer must be aware of several factors.
If we're designing for changes in conditions, like occupancy, use, public safety, etc., are we also accounting for the possible changes in temperature, weather patterns, and natural disasters — not the historical or average but the undocumented, yet to come?