by steve | Oct 18, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know that volcanoes and geysers are examples of geothermal energy? Geothermal energy is plentiful, but geothermal power is not. Temperatures increase below Earth’s surface at a rate of about 30 °C per km in the first 10 km (roughly 90 °F per mile in the...
by steve | Oct 12, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know that the Home Insurance Building in Chicago is generally considered the world’s first skyscraper? Completed in 1885, it was the first to use a curtain wall construction on a steel frame!
by steve | Oct 4, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know that the world’s population is expected to increase by 2 billion persons in the next 30 years, from 7.7 billion currently to 9.7 billion in 2050, according to a new United Nations report launched today!? The World Population Prospects 2019: Highlights,...
by steve | Sep 28, 2020 | Blog Posts, Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), Challenges Confronting the Building Industry, Change Coming to the Building Industry, GEN_Business, Politics, Economy & Society (BBPES), Other Related Concepts & Strategies
This post explore:s How the building industry, facing imminent disruption, can learn from transformative examples in technology, aviation, and manufacturing, as seen with Apple’s innovation-driven market creation, Boeing’s modular manufacturing and workflow processes,...
by steve | Sep 10, 2020 | Did You Know? (DYK), Environment, Land and Climate
Did you know that it is expected that the planet’s temperature may rise at least another 2 degrees Fahrenheit up to 11 degrees in the next 100 years!? That doesn’t sound like much but that’s enough to alter are existence and change life as we know it....
