Serving as a new place for college freshmen to live and connect with one another, Virginia Commonwealth University’s (VCU) Gladding Residence Center (GRC) brings state-of-the-art lighting and amenities to its growing student...
Building intelligence and sensor technology have been driving energy efficiency. On the horizon is a next level of intelligence based on capturing data about how occupants use a space and then applying that information for a...
Museums operate in one of the most challenging environments when it comes to protecting assets. The assets are publicly accessible, often high value (possibly priceless), and sometimes sensitive to environmental damage. That...
Almost 70 years after it first opened, the Times Theatre in Seaside, Ore., has gained a new life with its Art-Deco-style movie theater and a more 21st-century enterprise, a brewery and restaurant. Renovation of the Times...
Students from kindergarten through college understand an audible alert means something is wrong, and they need to evacuate a building that might be under threat. Whether it’s a fire, imminent tornado strike or active shooter,...
Facing tight budgets, an aging workforce and increasingly stringent safety standards, building managers are looking to third parties for electrical safety maintenance solutions. That means electrical contractors, who...
Every jail, prison and correctional facility depends on technology to keep personnel, visitors and prisoners safe. The contractors and integrators that install or maintain those systems operate in a highly specialized niche....
Not long ago, smart lighting was outside the realm of typical commercial projects. Driven by energy-efficiency, integration and interoperability demands, smart lighting has moved past hype and become practical. Electrical...
Sometimes, the most rewarding jobs do much more than add to a company’s bottom line. A team of contractors recently demonstrated this by donating their time, money and services to the construction of a new Boys & Girls Club...
There is a change underway in a rural Washington State community that signals a new direction for clean-energy generation. The largest coal operation in the state is transitioning its open pit mines to a solar-generating...
Sonoma State University’s state-of-the-art music complex is the result of a decade-long construction project that turned what could have been a basic concert hall into a facility with some of the best acoustics a venue can...
Until the past few years, electric lighting has slowly, steadily evolved from incandescents to fluorescents and LEDs. But today, a variety of new technologies promise to offer either efficiency or new light experiences,...
