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LED Lights Grow Smaller And Smarter

LED Lights Grow Smaller and Smarter Grab a strand of hair from your head, and examine it. Now imagine if that strand were 10,000 times thinner, and what you’ll be holding will be the equivalent size of future light emitting diode (LED) lights. At the thickness of...

To Freeze, or Antifreeze?

To Freeze or “Antifreeze” This winter season has set many records for severity across the entire US and Canada. One record it’s unlikely you’ll find data on is freeze-ups and frozen pipes within buildings. Anecdotally, there are a record number of these unfortunate...

Farm Bill Incents Biomass

Farm Bill Incents Biomass After months of negotiation, Congress passed a comprehensive farm bill Tuesday on a vote of 68-32. It was a rare display of bipartisanship and a hopeful sign proving that Congress can find common ground on key legislative activities. The...

The Importance Of System Maintenance

The Importance Of System Maintenance This winter season has been one of the worst in recent history. Gelid temperatures and widespread power outages have been recorded in many parts of the country due to crushing winter storms and bitter, dangerous wind chill...

Breaking News: Maine Sets New Record

Breaking News: Maine Sets New Record Lately, much of the United States has experienced unseasonably cold weather for the month of December. Record lows have been recorded in many states. While no meteorological records have been set in Maine this month, the weather...

Light Up The Season With LEDs

Light Up the Season with LEDs While outfitting your home or business with LED seasonal string lights is a relatively simple task, effectively applying LED lighting for indoor or outdoor area lighting is very challenging. Unlike string lights that are generally...

The Importance of Knowing Your Building’s “MPG”

The Importance of Knowing Your Building’s “MPG” Energy usage benchmarking is an invaluable tool that is lowering energy costs and increasing value for thousands of buildings around the country. The most well-known and utilized program is the Energy Star Program run...

Green Leases

Green Leases – Silver Bullets? The United States is full of an aging stock of tenant-occupied buildings that lack energy efficiency and need capital investment. Many existing leases are “net leases,” where the tenant is required to pay operation cost while the...

Fracking and Tar Sands: The New “Magic Bullets?”

Fracking and Tar Sands: The New "Magic Bullets?" Portland is the postcard city of Maine. Busy streets host tourists sampling blueberry jams and enjoying lobster rolls on the wharf, shoppers with arms full of L. L. Bean bags, meandering down the cobblestone,...

DBIA reports that design-build makes up 40% of commercial construction in US!

DBIA reports that design-build makes up 40% of commercial construction in US! As a market leader and innovator of design-build projects for more than two decades, Thayer Corporation is excited to report that, according to the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA),...