In episode 2626552 of things you need to have ready before building, we discuss grading and drainage plans.

Mass timber design is a more recent development to wood construction, as against light-frame wood construction. This innovative design technology that is revolutionizing America comprises of gluing or nailing multiple wood products together and forming layers to be used for roof, wall and floor construction.

Intelligent Traffic Management Systems refer to any kind of contemporary smart solution or technological adaptation that provides innovative, technology-driven services related to the organizing, arranging and controlling of vehicular, cyclists and pedestrian traffic in a bid to enable safer, more orderly, and more effective use of road transport networks.

Thanks to transportation data analytics, commuters in modern cities now have better access to real-time traffic information such as trip distances and estimated commute times, blocked routes, accidents on routes, routes with traffic congestion and alternative routes, amongst other uses.

The value of this connectivity is based on obtaining and sharing of relevant information that empowers participants and users to make better informed transportation decisions that improve their quality of life as a whole.

With the advance in technology and with climate change shifting what we know as the norm, rainwater harvesting may just be that missing piece to sustainable, cheap/free water supply we crave.

This guide describes how to develop tsunami inundation and evacuation maps and how to increase the community tsunami readiness and preparedness, including through drills and exercises.

Urban runoff is the flow of stormwater, water from landscape irrigation and other human activities such as car washing which flow on the surface of impervious surfaces such as parking lots, roads and sidewalks created for the purpose by urbanization and development.