Implementing a water management program is probably the most daunting and crucial task of ASHRAE 188. Fortunately, there is a formulaic process for doing so, illustrated below.
Most of us have probably experienced the exercise known as “value engineering,” the process where everyone on the team looks at a design and tries to find ways to save some money.
Car dealer group saved more than 110,000 bottles and cans from waste across all locations.
March 20, 2019
At Hoffman Auto Group – a nearly century-old, family-owned auto dealership group in the greater Hartford, Connecticut area – employee health and customer satisfaction are always top-of-mind.
When Ferguson encountered extensive plumbing-system backups at one of its branches, it decided to turn to one of the product lines it offers customers — Saniflo grinder pumps — as a practical and cost-effective solution.
There’s a one-panel strip of the absurdist newspaper comic “The Far Side” that I remember well from childhood. It shows human-sized insects sitting in a theater for a horror movie called “Return of the Killer Windshield.” It still makes me laugh when I think about it, but the joke probably works better visually than verbally.
The below-ground infrastructure that has served us for the last five decades is at risk of failure due to change in climate, challenges with our understanding of how it should have been designed, intensification of the urban landscape and the simple lack of focus in maintenance, funding and knowledge.