The energy standard for buildings has been revised: ANSI/ASHRAE/IES 90.1-2019: Energy Standard For Buildings Except Low-Rise Residential Buildings. The earliest human shelters guarded Paleolithic gatherers […]
While both ANSI art and ASCII art have fizzled in popularity since their glory days on bulletin board systems (BBSs), they have remained consistently practiced, […]
An international standard, ISO 14117:2019, outlines electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) test protocols for various active implantable medical devices. The heart typically pumps at 60-100 beats per […]
If you don’t comprehend the significance of water, then you’re likely not a human being living on planet Earth. Or any other living thing, for […]
Water isn’t literally everywhere, but it is overwhelmingly abundant, taking up 332,500,000 cubic miles of the earth’s surface. H2O also comprises 60% of our bodies’ […]
Ceramic tile looks good. Of course it does—skilled professionals utilize the best knowledge so you see only the aesthetically-pleasing 3 billion square feet of ceramic […]
The standard for ceramic tile has a new revision—ANSI A137.1:2019 – American National Standard Specifications For Ceramic Tile. Ceramics is an ancient art. Dating back […]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to three scientists who developed lithium-ion batteries: John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley […]
NFPA 58-2020 is the 2020 edition of the liquefied petroleum gas code. It’s also an American National Standard. Propane, meet propylene—and butate and butylene. Together, […]
Today, fires of all sizes are extinguished with various media—foam, gas, chemicals—containing a range of substances. However, water still does its thing—as H20 is a […]