Issue #32
Features
- Anatomy of a Control Tech Dream Team
- To provide in-unit automation for nine of its properties, a developer hired some key players. Here’s what they learned.
- Green Building Benchmark
- Far-out features, like geothermal heating and solar light tubing, may have skewed the construction cycle, but the result is a fine example of efficiency.
- Picking Up Software Tools
- Survey identifies trends in homebuilders’ use of IT production systems.
- Seeing the Light at the FTTH Conference
- Extreme demand for bigger high-speed, fiber-based networks is predicted.
- Mini-Splitting the Energy Bill
- How one homebuilder’s mission to incorporate ductless HVAC technologies resulted in energy savings and green commendations.
Tech Options 4-1-1
- Intercom Systems Support Home Security and Family Interaction
- Communications and safety make a pair that protects a full house.