WORK ORDER WIZARDS

Of the many ways software developers have harnessed computing power in the service of facilities management, few functions have been so elusive as tracking internal work orders. No wonder, considering the difficulties of merging the world of dust-sensitive electronics and sophisticated databases with the grimy world of hammers, ladders, and leaking pipes.

Now ARCHIBUS, Inc., one of the world's leading computer-aided facilities management software developers, showcases two approaches to the process-intensive task.

HIGH-PERFORMANCE BUILDING DESIGN

Digital design tools are essential in the latest efforts toward sustainability in architecture. And they were much in evidence at the April 2001 EnvironDesign conference in Atlanta, Georgia.

Steven Winter, FAIA, founder and president of Steven Winter Associates, Inc., and his associate Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., RA, gave a presentation called "Lessons Learned from Commercial High-Performance Building Projects."

BASICS - USING A BROWSER OFF THE WEB

With the proliferation of the Internet and the exchange of ideas, work, and documents it supports, it still surprises many folks that the major common platform now available to facilitate that mode of exchange is the omnipresent Web browser.

This could be Netscape Navigator/ Communicator or MS Internet Explorer or AOL's browser du jour. Now almost every new system sold comes with one or more Web browsers already installed.

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