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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: March 2014
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Friday, March 28, 2014. School Reception Desks and Intimidation: Seeing a School through Student Eyes. But at the school in the image on the right, the reception desk has a center section low enough for students, even the youngest and shortest students, to see over and engage the adult on the other side face to face. It encourages the human connection between re...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Wednesday, May 21, 2014. The Unrealized Opportunity of Our Crumbling Infrastructure. The Union of Concerned Scientists recently released a report. On the dangers that climate change pose to our cultural resources. The report is summarized here - History Under Water: Climate Change Imperils Historic, Cultural Sites. A vast untapped reserve of jobs and economic boost ...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: January 2014
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Friday, January 31, 2014. Ghost in the Machine - Another Reason to Use Vacancy Sensors, Commission Systems and Engage Key Stakeholders. The following is a lessons learned taken from the renovation of elementary school in rural New Mexico. It was part the findings from a post occupancy evaluation (POE) conducted by M.E. GROUP. Less than Ideal Actual Outcome:. Hygiene...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: School Reception Desks & Intimidation: Seeing a School through Student Eyes
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Friday, March 28, 2014. School Reception Desks and Intimidation: Seeing a School through Student Eyes. But at the school in the image on the right, the reception desk has a center section low enough for students, even the youngest and shortest students, to see over and engage the adult on the other side face to face. It encourages the human connection between re...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 2: The “Shortsightedness” of Homo Sapiens
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Monday, July 14, 2014. The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 2: The “Shortsightedness” of Homo Sapiens. And the results fell in line with this. If you’re interested in learning more about the research that underlies decision making relative to environmental risk, encouraging “pro-social” behavior and evolutionary multi-level selection theo...Part 3, the final p...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: Vacancy Sensors and Peer Pressure - Using Both to Reduce Energy Consumption
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Vacancy Sensors and Peer Pressure - Using Both to Reduce Energy Consumption. We’re able to measure the lighting and plug loads in our office because we make use of an Enistic. Energy management system that meters loads separately at our panel (overall and by circuit), as well as down to the individual workstation. Here’s a Prezi.
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: July 2014
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Monday, July 14, 2014. The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 2: The “Shortsightedness” of Homo Sapiens. And the results fell in line with this. If you’re interested in learning more about the research that underlies decision making relative to environmental risk, encouraging “pro-social” behavior and evolutionary multi-level selection theo...Part 3, the final p...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: Culture and Thermal Comfort
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Thursday, August 5, 2010. Culture and Thermal Comfort. Mean radiant temperature,. And the insulative properties of clothing. I work for conservatively estimated (in 2009) that they were losing almost $70,000 per year due to thermal comfort conflicts. This assumes:. That their productivity is conservatively reduced by 50% for 10 minutes/day, and. This monetary estima...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: August 2010
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Thursday, August 5, 2010. Culture and Thermal Comfort. Mean radiant temperature,. And the insulative properties of clothing. I work for conservatively estimated (in 2009) that they were losing almost $70,000 per year due to thermal comfort conflicts. This assumes:. That their productivity is conservatively reduced by 50% for 10 minutes/day, and. This monetary estima...
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing: The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 3: Managing Common Pool Resources and the City Energy Project
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An Anthropologist in Engineer's Clothing. Musings from an anthropologist / engineer swimming upstream in the building construction industry. Sunday, November 2, 2014. The Built Environment’s Social Costs, Part 3: Managing Common Pool Resources and the City Energy Project. Discussed some of the evolutionary reasons for our species’ shortsightedness and how involving more people in the decision making process can increase our collective ability to take the long view. In 1990, Elinor Ostrom. Collective-choi...
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