For more than 20 years, federal agencies have pursued ambitious goals for energy efficiency through executive orders and mandates. These efforts have reduced energy use, saved costs and provided a driving force for technology advancement, but the efficiency projects themselves did not always enhance the missions of the agencies or strengthen resilience of their critical systems.
With the 2016 Olympics starting in Rio de Janeiro this week, I’m excited to report that ENR brought home “the gold” in our own field—a competition hosted and judged by business-to-business editors.
Architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) revenue generation has traditionally been viewed as somewhat organized but is tracked through a firm-specific approach.
The ability to generate useful, feasible, patentable—and often surprising—concepts will be a defining competitive advantage, says a leading engineering educator