100-DYK: Green Buildings & Climate Change
Did you know that by building green we can can reduce the impact our buildings have on contributing to climate change. According to Architect 2023, building accounts for 40% of all greenhouse has emissions. Our industry should invest more time in green building as it...
099-DYK: Energy Storage
Did you know that there are many benefits to choosing energy storage? It depends on the application and the type of technology that is selected to meet that application’s requirement. Energy storage provides benefits to electricity end-users and to society as a...
098-DYK: Wind Energy
Did you know that wind is used to produce electricity by converting the kinetic energy of air in motion into electricity? Today modern wind turbines rotate the rotor blades, which convert kinetic energy into rotational energy. We call this rotational energy and...
097-DYK: Construction Standardization
Did you know that the low productivity in the construction sector is due to the lack of standardized processes, and the low adoption of technologies. In construction standardization means the extensive use of processes or procedures, products or components,...
096-DYK: Knowledge Transfer
Did you know that knowledge transfer is necessary for a business to run smoothly? It improves innovation, collaboration, and understanding in your business. Rather than relying on facts and data to share information across departments. The construction industry...
095-DYK: Building Industry Fragmentation
Did you know that fragmentation within the construction industry arises from two areas within the traditional construction process; the construction work process where the most significant division is in the separation of the design and construction phase, and the...
094-DYK: Collaboration in Construction
Did you know that collaboration is key to construction? When it comes to construction the biggest challenge is to deliver projects on time. Strong collaboration means increased productivity, decreased risk, and greater profits. It’s something every construction...
093-DYK: Construction Digitization
Did you know digital building technologies assist the structure of the technological landscape in the construction sector? For example, technologies are categorized along two axes: cyber-physical technologies versus software-based technologies and complementary...
092-DYK: Smart Building Technologies
Did you know that smart buildings include efficient technologies with automated controls, networked sensors and meters, advanced building automation, data analytics software, energy management and information systems, and monitoring-based commissioning (MBCx)?...
091-DYK: World of BIM
Did you know that the uses of building information modeling (BIM) in the construction sector of the United States as of summer 2019; 49% percent of the surveyed builders stated that they use BIM in their companies for visualizations? Builders can use this...