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A Comprehensive Guide to Water Conservation: The Bottom Line Impacts, Challenges and Rewards

Build a basic understanding of the current issues surrounding water use, including critical issues, benchmarking and evaluation related to reduction of water […]

The Hole Truth About U.S. Buildings

A survey conducted by the Building Commissioning Association highlights the negative impact of duct leakage in U.S. buildings, with details of the […]

Commentary: Facility Management Accreditation Commission Outcomes

As institutions evaluate the Facility Management Accreditation Commission (FMAC) program’s curricular outcomes and competencies, this commentary offers an assessment example using a […]

A Deliberated Talent Management Approach Toward Developing Future FM Leaders

Trend reports project up to 50 percent of the experienced FM workforce will leave the workplace within 10-15 years. Accordingly, this white […]

NewWOW Alternative Workplace Benchmarking Survey Results

Alternative workplace benchmarking survey results including evidence that people issues remain the top business drivers and benefits, and the development of alternative […]

Essential Requirements for the Parameterization of Food Waste in Hospitals

This research explores the topic of food waste from the economic perspective to provide a framework for improving both cost and process […]

Utilizing Building Information Modeling (BIM) for FM

This study explores perceptions of BIM in the FM community and attempts to highlight real world issues that FMs have faced while […]

Activity Modeling for Energy-Efficient Design of New Hospitals

This research shows how energy use in hospitals may be reduced through activity modeling and demand-control of hospital equipment and ventilation energy. […]

Cleaning: Finding a Microbiological Standard

This literature review contains background and findings on standards and benchmarks for the cleaning of high frequency touch surfaces, focusing on standards […]

A Course Fit for King's

Learn how savings of £1.1m were generated from a review of the private finance initiative between King’s College London and Bouygues Energies […]