The way we control the speed of fan motors or pump motors has tremendously changed in the past two decades with the introduction of variable-frequency drives (VFDs), aka variable-frequency controllers (VFCs).
Performance-based design (PBD), as opposed to prescriptive design, enables building owners and operators to customize the building design based on long-term goals.
Progressive design-build team of SmithGroup and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. delivers the ARB to expand cutting-edge space research with largest thermal vacuum chamber of any university in the world.
Herb Woerpel, senior editor, Engineered Systems, and Mollie Elkman, president and owner of Group Two Advertising, discuss her book “The House that She Built.”
Growth is motivated by vision and strategy, but it is achieved through numbers and a focused effort to make those numbers go up. That means the bottom line, which everyone realizes, but it also means getting staff across the company to buy into more complex, real-time, or leading key performance indicators (KPI).
The firm is expanding its geographic presence to the Detroit area, which will provide access to an expanded talent pool along with greater connectivity to local business partners, clients, and ongoing development in the region.