by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's iImpact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know that PV conversion efficiency is the percentage of incident solar energy that a PV converts to electricity. For production modules, conversion efficiency is 6% to 21%.
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's iImpact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know on average, 1.05 x 105 terawatts (TW) of solar radiation reach the Earth’s surface, while global electricity demand averages 2.4 TW.
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's iImpact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK), Global trends shaping the building industry's future
Did you know that due to congestion in urban areas, an additional 6.9 billion hours of travel time and an extra 3.1 billion gallons of fuel are use by urban Americans in 2014?
by | Feb 25, 2019 | Building's iImpact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK), Global trends shaping the building industry's future
Did you know that in 2015, 58.65 billion passenger-miles (PM) were traveled on public transit, and 3 trillion vehicle-miles are traveled (VMT) on public roads each year.
by | Feb 11, 2019 | Building's iImpact on the Economy, Society & Environment, Did You Know? (DYK)
Did you know approximately 82% of the U.S. population lives in urban areas, up from 64% in 1950 and by 2050, 90% of the U.S. population and 68% of the world population is projected to live in urban areas?
by steve | Jan 23, 2019 | Blog Posts, Building Orders, Building_Digitization, Cloud Platforms, Modeling, Data & Analytics, Building_History, Current Challenges & Resistance to Change (BHCCRC), Building_Industry Marketing, Guest Contributions, Strategy & Business Model Innovation
This post eplores: The inspiration drawn from the modular designs of classical Greek architecture, the future of building may rest on four evolving “New Orders”—Boutique, Iconic, Optimized, and Hybrid—which combine customization, innovation, and modular...
