Introducing | THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING
- Rebeka Zubac
- Jun 2
- 1 min read
Updated: Jun 11
In a world where buildings are growing taller, faster, and more complex, there’s a quiet legacy beneath it all: the systems that make it work. Mechanical. Hydraulic. Electrical. Fire. Engineered into the background, but never irrelevant.
This June, we’re launching THIS MONTH IN ENGINEERING, a weekly series that looks back at the turning points that shaped today’s building services. Each post will spotlight a real-world milestone from the same month in history. Whether it’s a patent that redefined how we design or an incident that led to new standards, we’ll explore how those moments continue to influence the systems we deliver today.
We’re starting next Monday with a 1902 innovation that changed buildings forever — Willis Carrier’s submission for the first modern air-conditioning system. From there, we’ll trace the origins of public water access, revisit Nikola Tesla’s enduring influence on electrical design, and unpack how a 1946 hotel fire triggered one of the earliest waves of egress reform.
If you’re in this industry, you already know: the best systems aren’t the ones you notice. They’re the ones that hold. This series is about those systems and the thinking that built them.
FOLLOW along as we explore one discipline each week. There’s a lot to learn by looking back, and even more to build forward.
