Finely Tuned

Mark Shahinian–President, Future Grid Coalition–discusses America’s rapidly-changing energy infrastructure and Normalized Metered Energy Consumption (NMEC)

John Sterman–Professor of Management at MIT & Director of the Sloan Sustainability Initiative–discusses the power of process improvements and the role change management can play in society’s response to climate change.

Richard Hart–Strategic Energy Management at Cascade Energy–discusses how building operators can save time and money by cherry picking the best ideas from lean manufacturing.

Steven Lubar–Professor of American Studies, Brown University–discusses what it’s like to take 13 first-years from the museum to the machine shop in search of a new understanding of skill.

Thaddeus Miller–Assistant Professor, Arizona State University–discusses the infrastructure crossroads facing the United States.

Eugene Skelton–NASA, Satellite Servicing Projects Division–discusses Rendezvous and Proximity Operations on NASA’s Raven mission.

Dr. Hodkiewicz–of The University of Western Australia–and team asked 176 maintainers about their work and what makes procedures effective.

NASA astronaut Dr. Edward Gibson–who spent a record 84 days living in space–discusses repair and space station maintenance on Skylab.

Michael Bennon, Managing Director at the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, discusses infrastructure Public-Private Partnerships in an era of compounding deferred maintenance deficits.

Talking with Dr. Layne Karafantis of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum about human factors engineering initiatives in the maintenance of complex aerospace systems.