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ServiceTitan Introduces Good, Better, Best Flat Rate Pricing with The New Flat Rate

The pathway to zero-emission vehicles has taken two forks, one toward battery electric cars like the Tesla and the other toward fuel-cell-powered automobiles like the Toyota Mirai. The University of Delaware's Yushan Yan believes that fuel-cell vehicles are the way to go, because they best preserve…

Dec 13, 2016

Architecture Schools Help Students Get Licensed Sooner

Home » ServiceTitan Introduces Good, Better, Best Flat Rate Pricing with The New Flat Rate HVAC Residential Market HVAC Breaking News Services, Apps & Software When given choices, customers buy more than you could ever sell them December 9, 2016 KEYWORDS HVAC / HVAC sales / residential hvac Reprints…

Dec 10, 2016

Pioneering nanotechnology captures energy from people

The road to licensure for architects is getting shorter and shorter, thanks to a recent initiative spearheaded by the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (NCARB). The Integrated Path to Architectural Licensure (IPAL) provides students the opportunity to complete requirements for…

Dec 9, 2016

Hidden images created with commercial inkjet printers: Images printed with silver and carbon reveal their secrets only with the right type of illumination; for use in security-related applications

The day of charging cellphones with finger swipes and powering Bluetooth headsets simply by walking is now much closer. Michigan State University engineering researchers have created a new way to harvest energy from human motion, using a film-like device that actually can be folded to create more…

Dec 9, 2016

Winner of the 2017 AIA Architecture Firm Award

Researchers have developed a way to use commercial inkjet printers and readily available ink to print hidden images that are only visible when illuminated with appropriately polarized waves in the terahertz region of the electromagnetic spectrum. The inexpensive method could be used as a type of…

Dec 9, 2016

Further improvement of qubit lifetime for future quantum computers

The Board of Directors of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) voted today for Leddy Maytum Stacy Architects (LMSA) to receive the 2017 AIA Architecture Firm Award. The AIA Architecture Firm Award, given annually, is the highest honor the AIA bestows on an architecture firm and recognizes a…

Dec 9, 2016

Keeping electric car design on the right road: Closer look at the life-cycle impacts of lithium-ion batteries, proton exchange membrane fuel cells

An international team of scientists has succeeded in making further improvements to the lifetime of superconducting quantum circuits. An important prerequisite for the realization of high-performance quantum computers is that the stored data should remain intact for as long as possible. The…

Dec 9, 2016

Thermoelectric material made in paintable liquid form

Does it really help to drive an electric car if the electricity you use to charge the batteries come from a coal mine in Germany, or if the batteries were manufactured in China using coal? Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Industrial Ecology Programme have looked at…

Dec 9, 2016

Siegel & Strain Honored for Contribution to Community

A new study, led by Professor Jae Sung Son of Materials Science and Engineering at UNIST has succeeded in developing a new technique that can be used to turn industrial waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other applications. In their study, the team presented a new type of high-performance…

Dec 9, 2016

Observing crystallization at the molecular level for the first time

Siegel & Strain Architects is honored to receive an AIA San Francisco Community Alliance Award, the Firm Achievement Award, given in recognition of "outstanding contributions to the community, advancement of the profession, and for producing distinguished architecture." The AIA San Francisco…

Dec 9, 2016

Dipole orientation: New dimension in super-resolution microscopy

Crystallization is a very basic chemical process: schoolchildren can witness it with their own eyes. But scientists had not been able to observe this process on the molecular level -- that is, the instant in which molecules overcome their tendencies to float individually in a liquid solution and…

Dec 9, 2016

Panels Clad Award Winning Residential Property

Recently, a new polarization-dipole azimuth-based super-resolution technique has been proposed by a group of researchers in Peking University (China), Tsinghua University (China), and University of Technology Sydney (Australia). It not only provides a new dimension for super-resolution, but also…

Dec 9, 2016

Scientists track chemical, structural evolution of catalytic nanoparticles in 3D

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Dec 9, 2016

Machine learning enables predictive modeling of 2-D materials

Catalysts are at the heart of fuel cells-devices that convert hydrogen and oxygen to water and enough electricity to power vehicles for hundreds of miles. But finding effective, inexpensive catalysts has been a key challenge to getting more of these hydrogen-powered, emission-free vehicles out on…

Dec 9, 2016

ASTM Standard to Lead to More Sustainable Roofing Practices

Machine learning, a field focused on training computers to recognize patterns in data and make new predictions, is helping doctors more accurately diagnose diseases and stock analysts forecast the rise and fall of financial markets. And now materials scientists have pioneered another important…

Dec 9, 2016

High-resolution brain scans could improve concussion detection

A new ASTM International standard will help reduce the amount of used roofing materials that goes to landfills. ASTM’s committee on roofing and waterproofing ( D08 ) developed the new standard, which will soon be available as D8013, Guide for Establishing a Recycle Program for Roof Covers. According…

Dec 9, 2016

Novel label-free microscopy enables dynamic, high-resolution imaging of cell interactions

Simon Fraser University researchers have found that high-resolution brain scans, coupled with computational analysis, could play a critical role in helping to detect concussions that conventional scans might miss. In a study published in PLOS Computational Biology , Vasily Vakorin and Sam Doesburg…

Dec 8, 2016

Partnership at a distance: Deep-frozen helium molecules illuminate quantum-mechanical tunnelling: Atomic physicists measure bond length/precise testing of quantum-mechanical tunnel effect

Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have invented a novel live-cell imaging method that could someday help biologists better understand how stem cells transform into specialized cells and how diseases like cancer spread. The Photonic Crystal Enhanced Microscope (PCEM) is…

Dec 8, 2016

New material could lead to erasable and rewriteable optical chips

Helium atoms are loners. Only if they are cooled down to an extremely low temperature do they form a very weakly bound molecule. In so doing, they can keep a tremendous distance from each other thanks to the quantum-mechanical tunnel effect. As atomic physicists in Frankfurt have now been able to…

Dec 8, 2016

Renovate America Welcomes DOE’s Best Practices for PACE Financing

A military drone flying on a reconnaissance mission is captured behind enemy lines, setting into motion a team of engineers who need to remotely delete sensitive information carried on the drone's chips. Because the chips are optical and not electronic, the engineers can now simply flash a beam of…

Dec 8, 2016

KAI Design & Build Hires Intern Architect in Omaha Office

Home » Renovate America Welcomes DOE’s Best Practices for PACE Financing HVAC Breaking News HVAC Residential Market Guidelines provide important framework for expanding pace industry nationwide December 7, 2016 Renovate America, a residential Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing provider,…

Dec 7, 2016

Government Spending Bill Excludes Investment Tax Credit for Geothermal

KAI Design & Build has hired Eric Goeken of Benson, Neb. as an Intern Architect at its Omaha, Neb. office. Goeken will work to ensure the successful execution of construction-related documents, projects and activities for KAI’s Nebraska clients. He will also assist with all aspects of architectural…

Dec 7, 2016

Top Trends Driving the Commercial Refrigeration Market

Home » Government Spending Bill Excludes Investment Tax Credit for Geothermal HVAC Residential Market HVAC Breaking News HVAC Commercial Market Geothermal Heat Pumps Expiration of these credits impacts both the residential and commercial markets December 7, 2016 The Geothermal Exchange Organization…

Dec 7, 2016

HVAC Company, Wentzel’s, Consolidates in New Facility in Sarasota

Home » Top Trends Driving the Commercial Refrigeration Market HVAC Breaking News Refrigeration Display Cases The market is being driven by emerging economies December 7, 2016 The global commercial refrigeration market was valued at $34.43 billion in 2015 and is likely to reach $45.06 billion by…

Dec 7, 2016

AISI Publishes New Report on Strength of CFS

SARASOTA, Fla. — Wentzel’s, a family-run heating, air conditioning, electrical, and insulation provider, announced that it is consolidating its operations in a new, larger space in Sarasota. After operating three divisions in separate locations, Wentzel’s is combining them all under one roof — a…

Dec 6, 2016

Wall-jumping robot is most vertically agile ever built

The American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI), in partnership with the Metal Building Manufacturers Association, has published a report on the results of a research project that developed a new Direct Strength Method (DSM)-based design method for cold-formed steel (CFS) beam-columns. The new method…

Dec 6, 2016

DOE Announces New Better Buildings Zero Energy Districts Accelerator

Roboticists at UC Berkeley have designed a small robot that can leap into the air and then spring off a wall, or perform multiple vertical jumps in a row, resulting in the highest robotic vertical jumping agility ever recorded. The agility of the robot opens new pathways of locomotion that were not…

Dec 6, 2016

Nonresidential Construction Spending Gains Momentum

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Dec 2, 2016

Enphase, Generac Educate Consumers on Combined Solar-Backup Solutions

Nonresidential construction spending totaled $699.7 billion on a seasonally adjusted, annualized basis in October, a 0.3 percent decrease from September’s significantly upwardly revised total, but an increase of 2.6 percent year-over-year according to analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data released…

Dec 2, 2016