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Facility Management Is Facilitated By Smart Sensors
In pursuing a smart building, a critical step is to identify and select smart sensors that are capable of generating rich, actionable data about an occupant’s whereabouts.
Top Trends Impacting Smart Buildings In 2017
From tunable white lighting to graphic user interfaces, Crestron’s Andrew Gross shares his predictions on the most impactful smart building trends for 2017.
Wireless Communication, For Safety’s Sake
The Safer Buildings Coalition focuses on the adoption of in-building communication capabilities for public safety. This article looks at the role this technology can play in senior living facilities.
Wireless Infrastructure 101 For Buildings
Cellular and Wi-Fi work together to provide robust in-building mobile broadband.
Bridging The Facilities Talent Gap
As seasoned facility management professionals enter retirement, the next generation benefits from technology that captures institutional knowledge.
Chiller Data: Connected Or Not?
For proactive chiller maintenance and operation, connectivity provides facility staff with quick access to equipment conditions.
Beyond Energy Savings: Disruptive Technologies In Lighting
Disruptive lighting control technologies including LEDs, evolving software, and wireless protocols offer additional advantages beyond energy savings.
Manage IAQ During Renovations
To protect facility occupants from unhealthy indoor air during a renovation, focus on these three areas.
Simplify With Networked Lighting Controls
While this lighting technology seems to add complexity, its features help to streamline facility operations.
Spaces For Collaboration, Always In Fashion
Beijing-based MAD Architects introduced open floor plans and multipurpose layouts to encourage collaboration through a recent project, the Xinhee Design Center.
Creating An Internet Of (Trusted) Things
Embracing connectivity and the IoT brings valuable benefits but it also exposes organizations to potential threats to their security, facility processes, and operational integrity.
Question Of The Week: What IAQ Myths Have You Encountered?
When it comes to: eliminating unhealthy sources; ventilation; and air filtration, which approaches are sound — and which should facility management filter out?
Investigating Moisture Intrusion In Roofs
Systematic, preventive roofing maintenance helps to identify and address any chinks in the building envelope armor.
LED Lighting And Circadian Rhythm
Lighting is an ever-present aspect of our everyday lives in and around buildings, and it also serves as a key trigger for our rhythmic clock.
Exterior Metal Walls: Moisture And Thermal Management
Choosing ideal components for this type of building envelope depends on local climate and other factors.
Preventive Maintenance With Annual Plant Turnarounds
A wholesale inspection of the network of electrical, electronic, process and control, automation, and building management systems keeps industrial facilities operating at optimal levels.
Integrated Ceiling Systems
Streamline an interiors project by exploring this option that merges multiple building systems.
Smart Buildings Get Smarter With IoT
From building management systems to the next frontier of facility technology, the benefits of IoT abound but the roadmap differs for each organization.
Selecting LED Lighting For Wet, Harsh, And Industrial Settings
IP Rating and chemical resistance are factors to examine when choosing LED lighting fixtures for challenging areas, such as industrial facilities.
A Day In The Life Of Office Management
Six ways to improve office facility management operations — and the employee/tenant experience in the meantime.
Learn How To Capture Energy Incentives And Strengthen The Power Grid
Join us for this free webinar and learn how to to open new revenue streams, reduce energy costs, and advance sustainability goals at your facility with virtually no disruption to productivity.
Watch This: The Role Of Facilities Management In Handling Emergencies And Maintenance
This video webinar provides actionable strategies to safeguard your assets, protect lives, and ensure operational continuity.
[VIDEO] Job Order Contracting: Accelerating the Projects that Matter
This proven single-solicitation process accelerates project delivery while satisfying local bidding requirements. Learn all about Gordian’s JOC solutions .
Infrastructure Upgrades For Energy And Labor Savings: Scaling For Growth
How Arway Linen and Uniform is reducing water and energy consumption by 51%.