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IoT in Healthcare Facilities: Planning for the Changing Future
by Jason Butler The interface and connectivity of infrastructure systems and equipment to information technology networks is rapidly changing and evolving. Recent advancements in computing power, data logging, on-board memory, energy consumption, and wireless connectivity systems now allow for cost-effective integration into healthcare systems and equipment. While this growth is providing astounding new capabilities for […]
Understanding and Avoiding Phishing Attacks
by Jesse Connolly If you want to partake in an eye-opening little exercise, open your contacts list and scroll through the first 100 entries. What would you say if I told you 97 of those names were a cybersecurity threat? According to extensive research by Intel, only three out of every 100 people can successfully […]
Acuity-Adaptable Rooms: What They Are and Why Hospitals Need Them
by Tom Ryan On the horizon is a new way and better way for hospitals to design their care: acuity-adaptable patient rooms. What are acuity-adaptable patient rooms? They are cutting edge hospital rooms that allow the care to come to where the patient is – via portable telemetry and diagnostics – rather than the patient needing […]
Hastings Demonstrates the Power of Marvin Products
by Kelly McCoy Hastings, the exclusive representative of Marvin in New England and Eastern New York, recently held its second annual Commercial Summit, convening 16 dedicated commercial dealers throughout the region for a design thinking forum unlike any other in the industry. Hastings’ Marvin Commercial Summit was held at Hotel on North, one of the […]
Educating the Girls from the Boys & Girls Club
by Michael Feldman At Feldman, we’re committed to giving back to the community. For example, in the summer of 2017, we invited four youngsters from Orchard Gardens Boys & Girls Club of Boston to our offices for a tour of the facility and some insights into what land surveying is all about. During the holiday […]
Solutions for In-Building Connectivity
by Gina Rae How does the internet of things (IoT) drive smart building infrastructure? What types of in-building solutions exist to support it? How do landlords and developers get these solutions into their buildings? IoT has actually been around for some time, but with over 10 billion devices talking to one another, the concept finally […]
The Battle Over the Curb and the Future of Urban Mobility
by Jeff Bittenbender In cities across the United States, municipalities are sitting on some of today’s most valuable real estate and dedicating much of its use to storing private vehicles. I am not talking about parking garages, but rather the roughly 10- by 20-foot curbside parking space, paid for by the quarter-hour, at rates drastically […]
Innovations and Technologies
by Matthew Guarracino According to a recent study conducted by the Commerce Department, spending on private projects in the United States hit a record high of $1.25 trillion last year. A large driver for this boom was the embrace of new innovations and technologies in construction projects. In Boston alone, there are nearly 70 companies […]
Local Company’s Innovation Changes the Building Industry
by Kelly McCoy For more than a century, architects, designers, builders, and real estate developers have seen windows and doors as simply building materials. Marvin at 7 Tide, an unprecedented 3,500sf brand experience center located in the Boston Seaport, has changed that forever. Marvin at 7 Tide is the brainchild of Hastings, the longtime representative […]
Massachusetts Has a New Elevator Code
… and it Could Affect Your Project in Construction You may have heard about the new national elevator code, and you may be trying to make heads or tails of it. Windover Construction’s manager of MEP services, Charlie Romano, explains the new code and how it may affect current projects in construction. What’s new? by […]
