The Art And Science Of The Built Environment
Science, to many, is a set of rubrics that help us understand the natural world while engineering is the application of that understanding to manipulate the natural world, bending it…
Shafts and Ducts
The ideal built environment is the seamless merging of architectural, structural and building service elements in a way that is almost magical. In most commercial multistory buildings, one of the…
Separate Or Combined – A Tale Of Two Wastes
There are several articles and resources that discuss the pros and cons of either combining soil and waste pipes, or separating them. This is not one of those pieces. A…
Variations and Surviving
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs brought with it several lessons on how to survive as an organism. We see today that the organisms who can trace their ancestry…