WESTFIELD - Mayor Brian P. Sullivan has called a meeting of school and city officials to reassess the needs of a 600-student $36 million elementary school at Ashley and Cross streets. That meeting, ...

One of the three essential elements of any construction contract is a complete description of the work that the contractor is required to do. In most construction contracts, this is accomplished by ...

HUNTSVILLE, ALA. (July 14, 2016)-- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineering and Support Center, Huntsville worked with the Naval Facilities Engineering Command and published two new Unified ...

Building Energy Data Exchange Specification (BEDES) version 1.1 was recently launched by the U.S. Energy Department. BEDES is a dictionary that facilitates consistent exchange of building ...

HVAC product selection is not as easy as it sometimes seems. For sure, the key part of engineering is the KIS principle (Keep It Simple). However, the KID principle (Keep It Defendable) is even more ...

Amid Qatar's growing consideration to promote sustainability, energy preservation and environment protection for the coming generations, the green building specifications are likely to become ...

What challenges are facing architects today when it comes to product specification? How are they tackling them? And what can manufacturers do to help? Building Boardroom surveyed over 300 architects ...

The sixth edition of Qatar Construction Specifications (QCS), to be released by 2018, is expected to set global standards in the field to be a reference for hot and humid regions. This was revealed on ...