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5 Best Practices for Capital Planning: Taking Notes From Education Sector
While capital forecasting software can provide valuable insight, adhering to this list of exercises keeps FM departments in the best position for long-term planning.
Question Of The Week: Have You Addressed Flood Mitigation Strategies?
Virtually all buildings require a holistic solution, an approach that embraces components of different techniques.
Four Ways To Combat Deferred Maintenance Demands
To break the cycle of deferred projects and backlog buildup, facility executives have four options that can help them tackle the growing list of needs at many stages along the construction process.
Tips For Choosing Wallcoverings
An abundance of choices provides options for facility managers to meet the practical and aesthetic needs of their organizations.
Workplace Vitality: 5 Imperatives For Facility Leadership
A focus on these five factors leads the way to effectively supporting the business units in your organization.
Storage Solutions For Libraries
With massive budget cuts leading to branch closures and limiting services, libraries are re-inventing themselves to become digital literacy portals and interactive teaching spaces.
Are You Being Smart About Your IoT Deployment?
When it comes to technological advances, the devil is in the details. In the case of the Internet of Things, those details are proper deployment and support of IoT devices and the networks they rely on.
Lighting Retrofit Scenario: Warehouses, Part 2
When executing a warehouse lighting retrofit, don't leave money on the table.
Lighting Retrofit Scenario: Warehouses
Properly illuminated, these spaces will see increased productivity and safety, while reducing energy and maintenance costs.
The HVAC Factor: Executive View of Preventive Maintenance
A summary report of HVAC service provides insight that is useful to repair and replace plans.
Question Of The Week: EMS, BMS, Or Both?
Do you use energy management, building management, or both to measure and manage energy use? Do you think they are one and the same?
15 Steps To Mitigate Disasters
From planning to recovery, having specific procedures in place for disasters helps protect facilities from immediate and long-term damage.
Facility Retrofit: Software Spurs Efficiency
With new computerized maintenance management software (CMMS), Rawhide Boys Ranch in New London, WI streamlines work orders, weighs equipment “repair or replace”, and tracks energy use.
Friday Funny: Frosty the FM
Facility manager and FM Frequency Columnist Charles Carpenter flexes his poetic muscle yet again with his take on the classic Winter holiday story. Dedicated to those who have to wear parkas at their desks year-round.
Energy Retrofit In Senior Living Settings
An assisted living residence conducts a pilot program to increase energy efficiency.
Building Envelope: Energy Use And IAQ
Building envelope improvements often rank at or near the top of the facility team’s to-do list, since they generally provide an attractive return on investment.
Tapered Insulation For Low Slope Roofing
When designing a low-slope roof system over a substrate that is less than ¼:12, a properly designed tapered insulation system becomes the foundation for a sound roofing system
Teaching Old Buildings New Tricks
Retrofit or forward-fit? Smart systems give new life—and new return on investment—to aging facilities.
Facilities In The IoT Equation
The first step for facilities managers on the road to developing their IoT strategies is to understand what it really means for an organization.
Question Of The Week: Are Current Building Codes Adequate For Extreme Weather?
Do current building codes adequately reflect knowledge gained from experience with recent storms and are the codes changing fast enough?
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%.