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Is Your Office Stressing You Out and Making You Fat?

Investigating links between health, the built environment, and occupant behavior, this research highlights strategies for and benefits of designing, building, and managing […]

Benchmarking for Facility Professionals

A comprehensive guide to help FM professionals make informed decisions about how to benchmark and achieve benchmarking goals, which benchmarking methods to […]

How to Maximize the Value of Your Furniture Assets

Learn how to enhance productivity, reflect corporate culture, and enable interactive innovation that contributes to recruitment and retention of talent by properly […]

Experiencing Change: Discover a New Future

A look at change management and the impact of the facility manager who manages change, including a case study about change management […]

Reducing the Fall Fatality Rate by Managing the Risk Associated With Working at Heights

This study examines the reasons behind historical fall fatality rates and presents recommendations for mitigation, concluding that FMs must develop, implement and […]

Value-Driven Near-Zero Strategies for New and Retrofit Commercial Buildings

Increase the efficiency of new and retrofit commercial projects by using Passive House Standard and strategies. Learn about the principles and cost […]

Is There a Standard in Rooftop Fall Protection?

Facility Engineering Association (FEA) recommendations on fall protection/fall prevention for commercial building owners to defend against litigation, and provide a safe workplace […]

Qualifying Contractors With a Simplified Scorecard

Review an objective methodology to assess a contractor’s qualifications using a simple matrix, and learn how to determine "best value" when hiring […]

Budgetary Control for External FM Service Providers

This research paper explores the critical success factors for a contract with budgetary control service providers in FM, focusing on the reasons […]

Successfully Operating LEED Buildings: Setting Your Building Apart in the New Normal

Learn how to stay current on industry knowledge and apply up-to-date expertise on projects with LEED EB Recertification. Review case study of […]