Imagine technology developed that could greatly limit subcontractor liability for moisture intrusion, as well as resulting mold.
If the walls and ceilings we install could talk, what would be said? What would one ask them? Professor Chang Liu, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, led the team that developed a "smart brick," which may monitor a building's health.
"We are living with more smart electronics all around us but we still live and work in fairly dumb buildings," Liu says.