Ever think that nanotechnology and Facebook might play roles in determine how your company operates? Check out the most popular Construction Dive reads from the past week to find out why.

Here are the links to those posts, as well as a great guest post we shared on the value of green building:

• Guest Post: The true value of green building: A former contractor dishes on the realities of green building.
• Nanotechnology and touch features shake up the tile market: Tile this year holds onto come classic looks, but touch-sensitive glazes and self-controlled surface temperature are in the picture, too, a design expert says.
• New remote control software may bring robots to construction sites: The platform from DreamHammer Inc. promises to be an across-the-board operating system for remotely controlled vehicles, with developers creating applications that run on it.
• Architects can replace windows with 'animated apertures' : B+U Architecture of Los Angeles has gotten as far as the concept phase with openings that combine windows, balconies and plazas in three-dimensional fiberglass opening that can shift shapes.
• Builders: Should you pay employees to ditch Facebook?: One company is doing so, and its program would put as much as $600 in credits in employee pockets.

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