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How to use AI to improve building energy use and comfort

Future expansions to this work will include utilizing drones equipped with cameras to inspect high-rise buildings

May 22, 2024

Building enclosures rely on heat and moisture control to avoid significant energy loss due to airflow leakage, which makes buildings less comfortable and more costly to maintain. This problem will likely be compounded by climate change.

DOE finalizes zero emissions rule for federal buildings

Federal agencies must now phase out fossil fuel usage in new federal building construction

ES Magazine staff

April 29, 2024

Rule achieves President Biden's Federal Sustainability Plan goal of net-zero emissions from all federal buildings by 2045.

ASHRAE wraps up building performance conference

This year's theme: Linking operational energy, embodied carbon and comfort

September 26, 2023

The conference in Austin, Texas, which drew 240 building industry professionals, included keynotes, paper presentations, seminars, vendor demonstrations, panel discussions, and debates from more than 90 presenters.

International COVID-19 Building Standard Introduced in Europe

September 22, 2020

The IMMUNE Building Standardhas been developed as a set of measures, technical solutions, and facility management practices to certify how built environments can withstand present and future health challenges and minimize the impact of a pandemic such as COVID-19 and other bacteriological or toxicological threats.

A socially distanced hand washing basin.

Six Ways the Pandemic is Transforming Restroom Design

Kris Alderson

July 14, 2020

Companies, educational institutions, and municipalities are all now evaluating new procedures and products for their restroom facilities.

Engineered Systems Columnist Phil Zito to Lead 'Healthier Buildings' Webinar

June 10, 2020

The ‘Healthier Buildings: Partial Occupancy and Enhanced Ventilation During a Pandemic’ webinar will be presented at 1 p.m. CST on June 16.

COVID-19 and Safety in the Workplace – Getting Back to Work

Guidance and best practices for individuals responsible for opening up stagnant structures.

Herb Woerpel

June 5, 2020

American Supply Association webinar examines ways to keep the workplace safe, how returning occupants can endure the threat of COVID-19 and best practices to ward off the threat of potential IEQ-related contaminants.

Imagining the ‘Pandemic-Smart’ Buildings of the Future

By evolving with remote work, smart buildings can be the heart of the flexible working trend.

James McHale

May 20, 2020

The time has come for the many great minds of the smart building industry to look ahead and spare some innovative thinking for the next pandemic that will sweep the world.

St. Louis Approves Building Energy Performance Standard

The city is the first jurisdiction in the Midwest and the fourth in the country to pass a BPS standard.

May 11, 2020

This BPS, unanimously adopted by the St. Louis Board of Aldermen, establishes incrementally increasing energy-saving targets for buildings and advances the city on its path to eliminating community-wide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050.

ASHRAE Offers COVID-19 Building Readiness/Reopening Guidance

May 7, 2020

Create a strategic plan prior to opening a building. The plan should include measures to make occupants feel safer, ensuring supply chain for critical items, such as filters and communication plans for building support and safety measures for occupants.