Gain control with insights into how successful projects get done
Project Delivery – often modernisation projects are started by jumping straight to a solution and forging ahead. This is the wrong place to start. The best place to start is by asking questions and considering options. Using objective criteria from credible sources can help for deciding which option is best.
Publications
Project Leadership
Heuristics for Better Project Leadership: Teasing Out Tacit Knowledge – Bent Flyvbjerg, 2024
The Uniqueness Trap – Harvard Business Review, Bent Flyvbjerg, Alexander Budzier, M.D. Christodoulou, and M. Zottoli, March 2025
Workplace Productivity
Frigid Offices Might Be Killing Women’s Productivity – Olga Khazan, The Atlantic 2019
Economic, Environmental and Health Implications of Enhanced Ventilation in Office Buildings by Piers MacNaughton, James Pegues, Usha Satish, Suresh Santanam, John Spengler and Joseph Allen, November 2015
Energy
Environmental Assurance – you can set up a free account with I2SL’s Laboratory Benchmarking Tool to compare the energy use, operational and embodied emissions, and operational practices of your buildings with those of similar facilities.
Commissioning Controls for Energy Efficiency – John Penny, EcoLibrium AIRAH, 2004
New Approaches to Slash Laboratory Energy Use & Improve IEQ – Gordon Sharp, Aircuity, Future of HVAC Conference AIRAH, 2018
HVAC Planning for Critical Control Spaces – Mitigating the risk from airborne transmission of disease – John Penny, AIRAH Outlook Conference, 2020
Integrated “All-Airflow Control” – David Dougan, Ebtron, 2024
The Building Performance Tracking Handbook – Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 2011
i am your optimisation guide – NSW Environment and Heritage, 2016
Case Studies
Lofty Goals – South Australia Cancer facility boasts world-class design – EcoLibrium AIRAH, 2019
Reducing emissions provides other benefits including reduced operating costs at 45 Clarence St, Sydney – John Penny, AIRAH Achieving the Green Dream Conference, 2013
Reconciling automated and user control of a mixed-mode office building in Brisbane – Kathryn Healey, Brett Beeson, Ecolibrium, 2014