by Craig Park, Associate AIA, FSMPS For most design practices, the last eighteen months reframed (upended?) our perspective on remote engagement, both internally and externally. Client connections that were almost exclusively in-person were flipped to virtual meetings practically overnight. Design teams that had used video for coordination meetings on rare[...]
Our consultants and designers have a decidedly personal stake in much of the work they do. Here are five of their stories. Stalin Vera, Acoustical Consultant: It’s one thing to help design a healthcare facility for someone else, but when it’s your own child being treated, it becomes super-personal. Our[...]
What Are They, and Why Do I Care? I Have a Pandemic to Deal With! — by Scott Ondik PE, CPP, RCDD and Randy Riley PSP Security Consultants Scott Ondik and Randy Riley discuss higher education campus vulnerability and threat assessments, addressing what areas of vulnerability are critiqued during the[...]
— by Joseph Bocchiaro III, Ph.D., CStd, CTS-D, CTS-I, ISF-C To prepare for the “near future” in academia, building technology experts recommend the following upgrades to campus assets. Health and Physical Safety The foremost topic in post-COVID discussions is protecting the health and safety of everyone on the campus. Beyond[...]
— By Principal Consultant Mark Gillis CTS-D After years of traveling the country — and world — with Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey’s Circus, and then as a technology consultant with The Sextant Group (now NV5), Mark Gillis returns to Arizona to lead the Phoenix office as Principal Consultant. Architects[...]
— By Joseph Bocchiaro III, PhD, CStd, CTS-D, CTS-I, ISF-C Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design International recently offered a brand-new course that I had the privilege of teaching. Entitled “Emerging Building Technologies – From Smart to Autonomous,” this 8-part certificate class covered a broad range of Intelligent Building Technology[...]
Photo Caption: Kaiser Permanente’s new School of Medicine is built around flexible spaces and technologies, and features simulation and computer labs, small group learning and collaboration zones, classrooms and learning labs, and this flexibly configurable lecture hall. As part of the recent Society for College and University Planning (SCUP) Pacific[...]
Business Development Specialist Julie Woodman recently caught up with Acoustical Consultant Stalin Vera for this conversation about some of the ways acoustics supports architecture. Julie: As we come out of COVID, I am really looking forward to in-person visits with my local library system. How do acoustics come into play[...]
Considerations, code compliance requirements, and design parameters for institutions seeking state-of-the-art emergency notification systems (ENS) — by Tim Waters and Richard Derbyshire Preparing for unexpected events is not new for higher education institutions. Contemporary emergencies range all the way from campus interlopers bearing weapons to the COVID-19 pandemic. When faced[...]
— By Joseph Bocchiaro III, Ph.D., CStd, CTS-D, CTS-I, ISF-C, Principal Consultant, NV5 Engineering & Technology “The new electronic independence re-creates the world in the image of a global village.” — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man There is broad agreement that the post-virus era will create a[...]
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Our internal innovation and development team constantly analyzes new technology and develops solutions to meet our client’s challenges. Our Technically Speaking series is one way we share our technical findings with the professional community.
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Our internal innovation and development team constantly analyzes new technology and develops solutions to meet our client’s challenges. Our Technically Speaking series is one way we share our technical findings with the professional community.
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NV5 Geospatial releases a new predictive modeling platform for vegetation management that uses existing lidar and historical data to identify the relative level of asset risk from trees by quantifying the potential for causing asset damage.
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Our internal innovation and development team constantly analyzes new technology and develops solutions to meet our client’s challenges. Our Technically Speaking series is one way we share our technical findings with the professional community.
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