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Buildings in the Cloud: From Smart Buildings to Smart Cities

This white paper discusses the challenges facing cities worldwide, identifies solutions, describes the results and delivers realistic next steps for your city […]

This is your Brain on Space: Architecture and Neurology

An introduction to human neurology in relation to the built environment. Research raising awareness of how architecture impacts the neurology of the […]

Saving Your Sanity in a Foreign Land

Advice for facility professionals facing the globalization of commerce, an unprecedented demographic shift and increasing workforce migration, highlighting common challenges and solutions […]

Gobility: Designing and Managing Space on the Go

A brief overview of teleworking statistics, benefits, and challenges, plus the case for mobility as a work solution.

Facility Management Internships: Case Studies from Programs that have Worked

A presentation summary with survey results from FMs concerning their attitudes and practices surrounding internship programs, and document of interviews conducted with […]

BIM Master Planning for 72 Million Square Feet

Learn how a community college system used integrated data systems to form a web-based core solution to maintain consistently updated information, optimizing […]

Evolving Technologies for BIM-Enabled Projects

This collection of building information modeling (BIM) presentations discusses changing technologies for BIM-enabled projects, addressing select BIM and O&M systems: Autodesk, EcoDomus, […]

Developing Projects in a Vacuum Sucks

Identification of major project challenges and advice to create an open environment for increased collaboration with end users and subject matter experts, […]

How to Move from Good to GREAT as a Leader: Examples from Within IFMA

Leadership skills are a big focus within any profession; but when you are a volunteer leader, there’s no formal training, so you […]

Let There Be Light! Retrofitting Office Lighting Offers Triple Bottom Line Benefits

The Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD) at Carnegie Mellon University statistically links six lighting and daylighting retrofit options with lighting […]