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Life After Carbon: The Next Global Transformation of Cities

Explores the ideas framed in “Life After Carbon,” a sweeping look at how the transition from fossil fuels to renewable sources of […]

Disrupting the Balance Sheets of Traditional Cafeterias

The financials of a traditional cafeteria model are challenged by macroeconomic factors like increased costs to labor, real estate, and food. Cultural […]

The New Landscape of Work: A new Paradigm of Work and its Impact on the Workplace

The workplace has traditionally been thought of as a singular self-contained unit, a place where one comes to engage in work whether […]

Weathering Climate Change: Resiliency Strategies for Existing Buildings

In 2017, there was a shift within the facilities management community from sustainability to resiliency. The effort now is to counter the […]

Global Construction Costs: Understanding Emerging Trends in 2018

The Quantity Surveyor, also known as a Construction Economist, or Cost Manager, is one of a team of professional cost and contact […]

FM Service Management: Technology Essentials for Each Generation

It used to be that our challenges were in developing a single strategy to deploy client facing FM Technologies in the workplace. […]

Condition Assessment: Requisite to Informed Capital Planning

Explains the three essential elements of condition assessment: inspection, assessment and estimation. Teaches a methodical approach to condition assessment and answers questions […]

Novel Methods of Capturing and Killing Airborne Contamination and Airborne Pathogens

Discusses new ways to address indoor air-pollution and disease, hospital-acquired Infections, existing air-cleansing technology, airborne particle movement and capture, and novel technical […]

See Something, Say Something...to Everyone: Crowdsourcing Emergency Communication

Today’s communication systems are often no better than an elementary school phone tree. Property Managers may reach out to the facilities managers, […]

CMMS is Changing the FM Game: A Real Life Example

This presentation follows the story of how one company took the opportunity to bring in a CMMS, computerized maintenance management system, solution […]