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There are key differences in how the supporting wall system must be designed to accommodate the panel direction

ANSI/ASHRAE Standard 209-2018 is the product of a half-decade of inertia within the building design and construction community toward leveraging energy modeling a design tool through a project.

Eco-friendly construction is being more and more used every day, especially in commercial building

The industry has taken steps to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change, but leaders should be ready to take these efforts further.

I'm asked regularly about the discrepancies between modeled and measured building performance.

In simple terms, galvanic action refers to the corrosive effect created when two electrochemically dissimilar metals are in direct contact with each other.

At first blush, the chart looks very complicated. There are layers of axes and curved reference lines. However, a closer examination reveals that the chart is conveying the answers to two related question

In order to distinguish between the different types of heat in the air, one must determine the air's enthalpy

It's important to review the condition of the building’s components that rise above the roof level

How solar power can balance the effects of mother nature in natural disasters