A lighting conservation feature that uses motion or sound to switch lights on or off. See also Ultrasonic Sensors....

In insurance, an accident of exposure to injurious conditions during the policy period that results in bodily injury or property damage....

See Owner Construction Management....

See Optical Character Recognition....

Two different frequencies with a 1:2 ratio are one octave apart. 500 Hertz to 1,000 Hertz is one octave; so is 23 Hertz to 46 Hertz....

Original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, is a term that refers to a situation in which one company purchases a manufactured product from another company and resells the product as its own, usually as a part of a larger product it sells. OEM is the company...

Also known as outgassing. The release of volatile, often noxious fumes and chemicals from new carpeting and other finishes....

Owner Furnished Owner Installed. Refers to equipment such as in laboratories....

A heating or cooling system where the refrigerant fluid is enclosed in a piping system that is vented to the atmosphere....

Offices that are defined by partitions or other furniture arrangements rather than by full height walls. Adequate secondary circulation is needed in open space plans to maintain an acceptable level of privacy and comfort. Workers feel that they have mor...

An internationally standardized model for defining protocols for local area networks....

An optical technique by which you can measure, on a real time basis, trace levels of pollutants in the air....

A lease accounted for by the lessee without showing the asset for the lease right or the liability for the lease payment obligation on the lessee's balance sheet. Rental payments made by the lessee are merely shown as expense in the period paid....

A device linking callers together in a teleconference (audio or video) with an operator. An operator typically dials out to each conference participant. See also Bridge, Dial-In/Dial-Out Bridge, Meet-Me Bridge, Telephone Conference Bridge....

In construction contracts, a seller of goods who has made a nonconforming tender of goods (i.e., steel, flooring materials, furnishings and equipment that does not meet contract specifications) can avoid a major breach of contract by curing the defect wit...

OCR readers are devices that scan printed material and then use software to recognize the text in the image and then store the information as text. The text may then be accessed and used as any other data that is input....

Focusing light on micron-sized beads of polystyrene in order to steer the bead with the forces of the electromagnetic field. Mostly used to study transport proteins, e.g. kinesin and myosin. ...

The branch of physics that deals with the inter-conversion of electricity and light.The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition...

Chemicals containing carbon. Volatile organic compounds vaporize at room temperature and pressure. Found in many common building materials....

Drugs with limited markets because of their small patient populations. ...

See Open Systems Interconnect. ...

The practice of turning over one or more service functions to outside contractors....

OCM places the CM function in the hands of the owner either fully or partially. The owner determines a CM format that meets his needs, matching the capabilities of in-house staff....

A type of interaction area featuring tables, writing surfaces, free coffee, periodicals, and comfortable chairs. The idea is that researchers who come to the room for coffee or use scientific journals will stay to interact with their colleagues....