Archives for the 'Technology' Category
Watch Fire Researchers Torch Homes, Offices and Warehouses
Wired Magazine has a video gallery profiling the testing and analysis work conducted at the NIST’s Building and Fire Research Laboratory’s Fire Dynamics and Smokeview software modeling and laboratory fire testing experiments. The BFRL provide invaluable data for manufacturers, contractors and others in the building industry to further fire safety standards and practices. And how [...]
21 June 2008 | Construction, Construction Defect, Consulting, Experts, General, Inspections, Technology | Comments Off
Creative Home Engineering – One of a Kind
This doesn’t have much to do with construction defects, but it is interesting nonetheless. Creative Home Engineering creates secret passageways, and they do it with style. Below is a quote from an older article that appeared in Phoenix’s East Valley Tribune:
“After crossing the short hallway to the master suite, she shows off her bedroom, the [...]
1 May 2008 | Construction, Design, General, Technology | Comments Off
Medieval Help Desk
Ernest Svenson, an attorney in New Orleans at the forefront of using technology in the legal industry, recently taught a CLE for Louisiana attorneys on the concept of Digital Workflow. As part of the reference materials for his talk, he used the above clip that highlights the perils of new technology, from the perspective of [...]
24 December 2007 | Business, Construction and Law, General, Litigation, Technology | Comments Off
Andreas Bittis: TranslucentConcrete
Apparently it is possible to use optical fiber as an admixture in concrete to create a translucent material that retains the structural and plastic properties of concrete but allows limited light to pass through. Just imagine what Frank Lloyd Wright would have done with a product such as this:
“TranslucentConcrete is a combination of optical fibres [...]
18 December 2007 | Construction, Design, General, Technology | Comments Off
Inbox Zero from 43 Folders
Merlin Mann, a productivity expert of the highest caliber, and founder of the 43 Folders website, has a wonderful approach to dealing with the onslaught of email. Most professionals nowadays are faced with more than 100 email messages each day. Obviously spam factors into that count, but how many of us don’t spend more than [...]
29 July 2007 | Business, General, Technology | Comments Off
First zero-emission home unveiled in UK
The UK has unveiled its first zero emission home that will set the environmental standard for all new homes in the future.The two-bedroom house is insulated to lose 60% less heat than a normal home.
It also features solar panels, a biomass boiler and water efficiency devices such as rainwater harvesting.
The design, unveiled at the Offsite [...]
12 June 2007 | Construction, Green Building, Technology | Comments Off
20 Tips for More Efficient Google Searches
For millions of people, Google is an indispensable search tool that they use every day, in all facets of their lives. From work or school, research, to looking up movies and celebrities to news and gossip, Google is the go-to search engine.
But instead of just typing in a phrase and wading through page after page [...]
8 June 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Consulting, General, Technology | Comments Off
StructuredRisk Named Recipient of RIMS 2007 Arthur Quern Quality Award
As the construction industry transitioned from the realm of highly trained and apprenticed artisans to a more production line oriented process, many leaders in the industry failed to adopt some key principles of production utilized in other industries. Specifically the development of quality control procedures has lagged behind the other more-developed industries such as food [...]
4 June 2007 | Construction, Construction Defect, Construction and Law, Experts, Technology | Comments Off
Popularity of Hidden Deck Fasteners Validated by Major U.S. Decking Material Manufacturers
SAN FRANCISCO, CA–(Marketwire – May 30, 2007) – The use of hidden deck fasteners in the deck building industry is rapidly gaining acceptance as many of the United States’ top decking material manufacturers begin offering their own custom fasteners. TimberTech, Fiber Composites and Procell Decking Systems have launched hidden deck fastener products for composite and [...]
3 June 2007 | Construction, General, Technology | Comments Off
The Enertia Building System
The History Channel and a division of the Inventors Hall of Fame recently announced their awards for a national inventors challenge for 2007. The winner of the top prize was Michael Sykes, for his invention of the “Enertia Building System”. The revolutionary home design is actually a model of the Earth itself incorporating a sunspace [...]
29 May 2007 | Construction, Green Building, Technology | Comments Off
