Trend Alert

Trend Alert May 7, 2018

As Technology Overloads Our Environments, Handcrafted Design Has Emerged to Offset It

In the last installment of “Trend Alert” (see the March-April issue), we explored some of the tools and methods by which the construction industry is…

Trend Alert March 12, 2018

With New Technologies Becoming More Affordable, the Industry Is Inching Its Way Toward an Increasingly Automated Future

In the cinematic sci-fi trilogy, “The Matrix”, audiences are introduced to a dystopian future in which robots have seized control of the world and waged…

Trend Alert January 8, 2018

The Line Between Commercial and Residential Interiors Is Disappearing

Among the more noticeable impacts the Digital Revolution has had on daily life is the way in which it has reshaped the landscape of the…

Trend Alert November 6, 2017

As the Number of Construction Projects Continues to Rise, So Do the Amount of Serious—even Fatal—Injuries Occurring on the Job Site

Among the most visible gauges of economic prosperity is the number of construction jobs and projects underway over a given period of time. Judging by…

Trend Alert September 11, 2017

Are You Prepared to Deal with the Imminent Threat of a Cyberattack?

Your building automation system (BAS) has been compromised and a hacker is threatening to shut down the HVAC in your facility in exchange for a…

At the forefront of this movement toward “greening” our landscapes is the Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES), a program based on the understanding that land is a crucial component of the built environment and can be planned, designed, developed, and maintained to avoid, mitigate, and even reverse the detrimental impacts of urbanization and development.

Trend Alert July 17, 2017

What LEED Did for Buildings, Sustainable SITES Will Do for Landscapes—and Not a Moment Too Soon

As a new administration took residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue earlier this year, environmental scientists frantically moved U.S. climate data onto private servers amid fears…

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