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Building the Band
Building the Band is a 2025 Netflix reality singing competition in which 50 singers audition blind in booths, form six bands, and compete for $500,000; hosted by AJ McLean, judged by Nicole Scherzinger, Liam Payne, and Kelly Rowland, canceled after one season in June 2026.
Building the Data Warehouse
Building the Data Warehouse is W. H. Inmon's foundational 1992 data warehousing book (QED/Wiley, four editions through 2005), defining the warehouse as subject-oriented, integrated, time-variant, nonvolatile data for management decisions, contrasting with Kimball's bottom-up approach.
Building works of Hiram I at Tyre
The building works of Hiram I at Tyre were a tenth-century BC program in which King Hiram joined Tyre's two islands, enlarged its harbors, and rebuilt its temples.
Building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal
The building works of Taharqa at Kawa and Gebel Barkal are temples built by the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa (r. 690–664 BC) at two great Amun sanctuaries in Nubia.
Building-applied photovoltaics
Building-applied photovoltaics (BAPV) is photovoltaic equipment added onto an existing roof or façade solely to generate electricity, treated as an external attachment rather than a building material, the retrofit counterpart of building-integrated photovoltaics.
Building-integrated photovoltaics
Building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) are photovoltaic materials incorporated into the building envelope, serving as roof tiles, facade cladding, or glazing while generating electricity, first installed in 1991.
Buildings Energy Act
The Buildings Energy Act (Gebäudeenergiegesetz, GEG) is Germany's federal law on building energy performance and heating sources, which took effect on 1 November 2020 and merged three predecessor laws.
Buildpacks
Buildpacks, standardized as Cloud Native Buildpacks, are CNCF-graduated software that turns application source code into OCI container images without a Dockerfile, originated by Heroku in 2011.
Buile Shuibhne
Buile Shuibhne (Buile Suibhne, The Frenzy/Madness of Suibhne) is a medieval Irish prosimetric tale in which the Ulster king Suibhne (Sweeney), cursed by St Rónán, goes mad at the battle of Magh Rath (637) and lives wild like a bird as a poet; edited by O'Keeffe in 1913 and translated by Heaney as Sweeney Astray.
Built environment
The built environment, also known as the man-made environment, is the human-made physical surroundings where people live, learn, work, and play, and a multidisciplinary field spanning architecture, construction, urban design, and planning.
Built Environment Coalition
The Built Environment Coalition is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 2011 by civil engineer E. Sarah Slaughter to improve sustainability and disaster resiliency of the built environment.
Built Robotics
Built Robotics is a San Francisco construction robotics company founded by Noah Ready-Campbell, known for the Exosystem, an excavator kit enabling autonomous trenching and pile driving for solar farms.
Built Technologies
Built Technologies, originally incorporated as DataFi, LLC, is a Nashville fintech company selling construction loan administration and commercial real estate software to lenders since 2015.
Built to Spill
Built to Spill is a Boise, Idaho indie rock band founded by Doug Martsch in 1992, known for rotating lineups, the 1990s albums Perfect From Now On and Keep It Like a Secret, a Warner Bros. era (1995–2016), and the 2022 Sub Pop release When the Wind Forgets Your Name.
Built-in self-test
Built-in self-test (BIST) is a design-for-testability technique embedding pattern generation and response analysis circuitry inside a chip, letting it test itself without external automatic test equipment.
Buir
Buir (Buir Nuur, Буйр нуур; 贝尔湖) is a 615 km² transboundary freshwater lake on the Mongolia–China border in the Amur basin, fed by the Khalkh River, drained by the Orshuun River, a Ramsar site since 2004.
Bujang Valley
The Bujang Valley (Lembah Bujang) is a 224-square-kilometer archaeological area in Kedah, Malaysia, preserving Ancient Kedah, a trading port-polity with more than fifty ancient temples.
Bujangga Manik
Bujangga Manik is an Old Sundanese narrative poem of about 1500, preserved on a single palm-leaf manuscript in the Bodleian Library, recounting a Hindu-Sundanese hermit's travels through Java and Bali.
Bujji & Bhairava
Bujji & Bhairava (B&B: Bujji and Bhairava, బుజ్జి అండ్ భైరవా) is a 2024 Telugu animated Prime Video prelude to Kalki 2898 AD, directed by Nag Ashwin, following bounty hunter Bhairava and AI vehicle Bujji in 2896 AD Kasi.
Bujjigadu (బుజ్జిగాడు)
Bujjigadu (బుజ్జిగాడు), aka Bujjigaadu: Made in Chennai, is a 2008 Telugu action drama romance by Puri Jagannadh starring Prabhas, Trisha, and Mohan Babu; childhood lovers separated 12 years, gang feud, Rajinikanth-fan hero.
Buju Banton
Buju Banton (Mark Anthony Myrie), Jamaican dancehall and reggae deejay born 1972 in Salt Lane, Kingston; 1992 Mr. Mention broke Marley's No. 1 record, 1995 'Til Shiloh, 2011 Grammy for Before the Dawn, US cocaine conviction 2011-2018, 2026 album Too Too Bad.
Bujumbura
Bujumbura, formerly Usumbura, is the largest city of Burundi and its economic capital, at the northern tip of Lake Tanganyika. It was the political capital until 2019, when Gitega took over.
Bujumbura Rural Province
Bujumbura Rural Province (IProvense ya Bujumbura Rural), capital Isale, ISO code BL, was a Burundian province of 555,933 people around Bujumbura city; merged into the new five-province Bujumbura province in the 2025 territorial reform.
Buk Bak
Buk Bak was a Ghanaian hiplife group formed in the 1990s by Prince Bright, Ronny Coaches, and Isaac Shoetan, known for rapping in Ga, Twi, and Pidgin English.
Buk missile system
The Buk missile system (9K37 Buk, NATO reporting name SA-11 Gadfly) is a family of Soviet and Russian medium-range surface-to-air missile systems, first adopted in 1980.
Buk reactor
The Buk, also designated BES-5, was a Soviet fast-spectrum nuclear reactor that generated about 3 kW of electricity in orbit for RORSAT radar satellites from 1970 to 1988.
Buka Island
Buka Island, northern counterpart of Bougainville Island in Papua New Guinea's Autonomous Region of Bougainville; raised coral limestone island hosting Buka Town, the region's capital, separated from Bougainville by the fast-flowing Buka Passage.
Bukalapak
Bukalapak, founded in 2010 by Achmad Zaky, is an Indonesian technology company whose 2021 IPO raised Rp21.9 trillion, the largest in Indonesian stock-exchange history at the time.
Būkān
Būkān (بوکان, Kurdish Bôkan) is a Kurdish city in West Azerbaijan province, Iran, in Mukriyan on the Simineh river; county seat, about 193,500 people (2016), center of Kurdish publishing and the 1946 Mahabad Republic era.
Bukan Pasar Malam
Bukan Pasar Malam is a short novel by the Indonesian author Pramoedya Ananta Toer, published by Balai Pustaka around 1950 and read as a record of disillusionment after the revolution.