Commissioning at three in the morning
Acoustic sign-off on a hospital courtyard, from a ward bed, because that is the only measurement that counted.
Journal
Commissioning notes, water-treatment arguments we keep having, and the occasional post-mortem on something that did not behave the way the model said it would.
The argument about black basins
Dark bottoms make water reflect. They also make it hot. There is a third option and it is mostly geometry.
Wind is the brief
Eleven weeks of anemometer data are cheaper than one wet entrance lobby. What we measure, and what we do with it.
What a fountain costs to run, in real numbers
Six of our installations, their measured annual energy and water, and why the cheapest one to build is rarely the cheapest to own.
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