Since the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in 2022, the building and design industry has been parsing out the legislation’s various tools and tax incentives that are newly available to building professionals who wish to apply strategic, high-performance planning to their projects.
Energy-efficient, all-electric hospitals significantly reduce emissions while creating healthier surroundings for patients, staff members and residents.
Decarbonization refers to the act of lowering or eliminating carbon dioxide emissions produced from human activities, especially carbon fuel combustion, such as burning coal, oil, and natural gas. Carbon dioxide acts as a greenhouse gas by trapping heat in the atmosphere, contributing significantly to global warming as well as other damaging environmental consequences.
Meeting developing building standards, codes and assuming best practices to support high-performance buildings, will require architects and engineers to collaborate holistically.
Meeting developing code requirements to reduce carbon emissions while creating environments with better IAQ will challenge and impact conventional building HVAC system designs.
Honoree oversaw responses to COVID-19, hurricanes during his time in the military.
August 10, 2023
Retired Lt. Gen. Todd Semonite, former Chief of Engineers and commanding general of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), received the Society of American Military Engineers (SAME) 2023 Golden Eagle Award for National Security.