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Can we really reduce the cost of maintaining a building? Given the annual total cost of keeping a building safe and usable, especially aging buildings, the amount spent on operation costs can be a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jamie Hailstone is a U.K-based reporter, who covers sustainability. When people talk about sustainability and all its many facets, ...

Housing is one of the basic needs of human life. Buildings are part and parcel of human activities including living, entertainment, shopping, office, factories and so on. Therefore, buildings should ...

Air quality is a big issue globally, with news stories about pollution levels and the impact of wildfire smoke in North America. But according to Harvard University professors Joseph Allen and John ...

NEW DELHI: Living in an unsafe building is not what you would ever want to do. So, it is sensible to be on the safe side and do a quality check on the house you are planning to buy or have already ...

Why does it eventually take a gruesome catastrophe like Rana Plaza for us to be curious about the quality and integrity of the buildings we dwell in? After all these structures are meant to be ...