There are many potential benefits to knowing not only how many people are in a building, but ideally where they are located. Why would we want to know? Well, with better information on occupancy, we ...

The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has released the latest update to its floor measurement standard for retail properties, BOMA 2020 for Retail Properties: Standard ...

When the summer sun blazes on a hot city street, our first reaction is to flee to a shady spot protected by a building or tree. A new study is the first to calculate exactly how much these shaded ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Introduction." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2019. Building and Measuring Community Resilience: Actions for Communities and the Gulf Research ...

This article was originally published on Common Edge. The relentless drumbeat of climate disasters in the headlines—scorching heat waves, raging wildfires, historic floods, crippling droughts—are no ...

Google is aiming to help small-business insurers more accurately measure occupancy of buildings where they are on the hook for slip-and-fall accidents and other risks.

The 2016 Kumamoto Earthquakes damaged municipal government office buildings, which was a large obstacle during evacuation and reconstruction. We need to develop technology that enables us to inspect ...

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, Colby College turned heads in May when it guaranteed that all 300 of its seniors still in search of work would have a meaningful opportunity within three months ...

For decades, capacity building has been one of the most widely deployed tools in public sector reform, functioning as the primary engine for institutional improvement. Across ministries and agencies, ...