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Protecting our critical energy infrastructure from physical security threats is certainly not a game, but the process can take some important lessons from the game of chess. Like chess, hardening a substation against attack requires strategic thinking, evaluating positions and…
Commissioning is a quality control/quality assurance process, said Marijn Braadbaart, director of commissioning at Ross & Baruzzini. “Everyone is trying to do more with less,” he said. “Owners are trying to build faster with fewer people and fewer staff. Architects are designing with fewer staff.…
Lake Land College in Mattoon, Illinois is a public community college of over 20,000 students and a leader in creating a greener and cleaner education and campus. When facing 40-year-old aging campus infrastructure, rising utility costs and new construction needs,…
Ask any facility manager, and he/she will tell you utility and maintenance are typically the largest cost components of a facility operations budget. In fact, the average breakdown for operational costs in a building approximate 38% to utility costs, 35%…
Leading systems integrator, Dynamic Controls Inc. (DCI), was recently awarded the temperature controls contract on the new Washington University School of Medicine Mid-Campus Center project located at 4570 Children’s Place in St. Louis, MO on the WUSM-BJC campus. A Schneider…
Download PDF Bob Dunn says the new $140 million headquarters building for the Reinsurance Group of America (RGA) is “a game changer for St. Louis.” “This is a project that RGA and St. Louis both really needed,” said Dunn, principal at Fox…