Technology Knowledge

-by Steve Cooper, LC, CLCP and Norm Russell, LC “I’m being quite useful. This thing is a Thneed. A Thneed’s a Fine-Something-That-All-People-Need! It’s a shirt. It’s a sock. It’s a glove. It’s a hat. But it has other uses. Yes, far beyond that. You can use it for carpets. For[...]

– by Ron Cochran 2020 changed the way people communicate and congregate. We all had to get used to seeing family, friends, and coworkers from afar via a variety of video/streaming apps. Businesses and schools were forced to make drastic changes to approximate business as usual. However, prior to 2020,[...]

-by Julie Fischer INCE, LEED AP BD+C “Unnecessary noise, then, is the most cruel absence of care which can be inflicted either on the sick or the well” — Florence Nightingale, Notes on Nursing, 1859 Anyone that has stayed in a hospital knows that the above statement is completely accurate.[...]

-by Ian Bryan Hoffman, AIA Room acoustic design for performance and assembly spaces continues to be a rich and engaging pursuit that bridges technical analysis with a healthy understanding of human aural perception and building design. Relatively speaking, room acoustics remains a young field – just more than 120 years[...]

-by Justin Meyer, LEED AP, INCE As acousticians, we get to see and hear a wide array of interesting things that many people don’t. It may be taking sound level measurements of wind turbines scattered across rolling hills, the manufacturing process of a consumer staple that we all have in[...]

– by Julie Fischer INCE, LEED AP BD+C Although acoustics is one of the top complaints in occupied buildings, it is typically a secondary consideration due to its non-visual nature. In some cases, acoustical design provides an overall auditory improvement to a space. In other cases, acoustics can have a[...]

— by Nick Shirley, Perry Artese, and Greg Coudriet For many companies, one of the biggest surprises from the great work-from-home experiment is that…it actually works. Employees can be productive and effective when they’re not in the office. Our group at NV5 was ahead of this curve in some respects,[...]

— by Norm Russell LC An ancient proverb states that it is better to “light one candle than to curse the darkness.” And humanity found a means to conquer the darkness, evolving from a burning stick to a candle, to a gas light, to an electric lightbulb, and finally, electroluminescence:[...]

— by Ernie Beck CTS-D and Matt LeFeber CTS As we optimistically approach a post-pandemic world, some corporate and university campuses will consider responsive and adaptive facilities as key to a successful future. Many are familiar with the promise of intelligent buildings to deliver the triple bottom line of energy[...]