Dire Hurricane Season Forecast Could Mean Costly Losses
With experts forecasting up to nine Atlantic hurricanes this year, companies with wind and flood exposures are advised to consult experts who can help them strengthen their catastrophe insurance programs.
Keep Your Campus Cool Without Burning Out Your HVAC System
Adding a predictive maintenance toolkit to your efforts will prepare your campus HVAC system for the hot summer season, and beyond.
Seven Deadly Sins For Facilities Managers
Ericka Westgard, Senior Director of Workforce Strategy for C&W Services, shares seven pitfalls facilities managers can fall into while performing their day-to-day responsibilities.
7 Tips For Maximizing Productivity In An Open Office
Keeping an open office productive, orderly, and comfortable can be a challenge. Learn how you can make sure the open office idea works for your organization.
Workplace Automation: Predictions And Reality
Not all human skills can be replicated by a machine no matter how sophisticated. Here’s how smart organizations are strategically automating workplace tools to boost human capabilities.
A World Without Facility Managers
In honor of World FM Day today, it’s important to take a moment to recognize the important duties and challenges that these men and women undertake each day.
Flexibility For The Future
For Wisconsin-based microbrewery Barley John’s, choosing a building envelope that offered flexibility, durability, energy efficiency, and adaptability was integral to the company’s long-term success.
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.
Tips For Winter Safety And Reducing Liability
Colder weather is fast approaching, and with it comes ice and snow. Each year slips on ice account for over 30% of all slip work-injury claims.
How To Navigate The Property Condition Assessment Industry
Are all Property Condition Assessment (PCA) reports the same? How do you navigate the PCA consulting world to find the scope of services you are looking for?
Worried About Your Fire Sprinkler System Failing?
Every year facility owners may spend thousands of dollars from their operating budgets replacing auxiliary drains in dry sprinkler systems that collect water, freeze, and break.
Seven Top-Of-Mind Hospital Flooring Considerations
From cleanliness and accessibility to heavy wear, wayfinding, and promoting a healing environment, hospitals face a unique, stringent set of challenges. Flooring is no exception.
Higher OSHA Fines Loom For GHS Label Violations
Labeling options for facilities help cut complexity of compliance with Globally Harmonized System requirements.
Inspect Your Roof Before Winter Arrives
Summer can take its toll, so early fall the is the perfect time to inspect the materials and integrity of commercial roofs before winter is here.
4 Keys To Improve Energy Efficiency Projects
Rather than an item by item, "menu" approach, a decentralized systems approach is key to optimizing the operation of HVAC and other facility systems.
5 Steps In Evaluating UPS For Power Protection
Whether looking at battery systems or flywheel energy storage, uninterruptible power supply systems are essential to facility operations.
In New Orleans, Chiller Equipment Takes Unusual Route
A new condenser unit for the city's convention center was delivered from a nearby bridge, 30 feet above the facility's roof.
LED Innovation For Warehouse Facility
Preferred Freezer Services, one of the largest public refrigerated warehousing companies in the world, chose LED lighting to address employee, energy, and maintenance concerns.
Catalysts For Office Productivity
With technology making it possible for many to work virtually anywhere, it’s important to provide spaces and amenities to help employees thrive.