Being a boss is about more than just a title on a business card. It takes a careful mix of "ingredients," time and effort. Much like a favourite recipe, it too can become
Published on: June 5th, 2015 Ashley Huffman @chicktech
Hand drawn engineering blueprints can be a pain when trying to manage hydro needs of a growing city.Welland Hydro Electric System Corp. felt this problem very keenly. The company serves Welland in Southern
Published on: April 20th, 2010 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
A tug-of-war between designers and contractors is not unusual during a construction project.Many architects have little patience with builders who fail to follow their designs, while contractors often gripe about architects being heavy-handed
Published on: April 8th, 2010 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
With its massive 10-foot body, sporting intake and exhaust components, and six red propeller blades -- each measuring 4.5 feet, one would think all the contraption needed were wings to lift it off
Published on: January 21st, 2010 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Seek and you shall find. Steve Joseph, vice-president of marketing at Dacor Inc. experienced the truth of this axiom in quite a dramatic way. The Diamond Bar, Calif. firm manufactures high-end kitchen appliances,
Published on: December 18th, 2009 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Think of the lowly rubber band when incorporating energy-saving concepts into your projects.That's the advice a leading physicist has for designers, architects and builders. Amory Lovins debunked the notion that design can only
Published on: December 4th, 2009 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
What if designers, architects, builders and their clients -- continents apart -- could bounce design ideas or images back-and-forth, as though they were chatting or interacting on Facebook? What if updating one another
Published on: December 3rd, 2009 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
An anti-piracy group representing major software vendors is being criticized by a mid-sized manufacturing business that was forced to pay a large fine, and an Internet law expert. Twelve Canadian companies have settled
Astronomers and engineers speak a different language. This could cause Babel-like confusion when you're building a football field-sized telescope for a Chilean observatory -- with engineers in British Columbia and astronomers in California.But
Published on: April 7th, 2009 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Designers and marketers struggling to define and differentiate their products in a sea of competing merchandize should look to anthropology and Chuck E. Cheese (the chain of family entertainment centres), says the head
Published on: December 4th, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
Use of 3D digital prototyping has steered a major project to retrofit waterway locks along Ontario's Welland Canal to unparalleled success.The technology has driven huge efficiencies for Bosch Rexroth Canada (BRC), the company
Published on: May 29th, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
When students at the Bishop Strachan School (BSS) in Toronto, say they're going do some shop work, they don't mean littering the floor with wood shavings and getting sawdust on their hair.Other children
Published on: May 15th, 2008 Nestor Arellano @itbusinessca
