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Three Benefits of LED Wall Pack Lighting

Conventional wall pack lighting can be inefficient and costly. This blog post outlines the energy savings, maintenance cost reductions and heightened lighting […]

Three Common Issues With HID Wall Pack Lighting

Wall pack lights are a type of exterior lighting generally used to provide illumination to areas for vehicles and pedestrian use, as […]

What Are the Pitfalls of Outsourcing Your Facility Management?

The idea of having someone else responsible for your firm’s FM obligations can sound appealing — just bring in “experts” to handle […]

Three Common Issues With HID High Bay Lighting

This blog post brings to light the issues associated with metal halide and high-pressure sodium lamps. Despite the ubiquity of these types […]

COBie, from Design to Operations

This white paper demonstrates that a COBie-based building information exchange can be successfully implemented in the private sector on a large scale […]

Driving Impactful Workplace Conversations

To effectively lead workplace change, FMs must work regularly with the C-suite, HR, IT, Finance, etc. and hold strategic and tactical conversations […]

What You Need to Know to Succeed in Facilities Management in 2020

One of the more recent trends is the growing importance, if not outright requirement, to systematically capture and store data from an […]

Smart Cites, Technology Innovation and Their Effect on Facilities in China

As our world quickly emerges as large, urban environments, facility management professionals are challenged with integrating their buildings and workplaces into the […]

Lessons from Japan’s Latest Destructive Earthquake for Homeowners, Building Owners, and Facility Managers

The Kyushu earthquake of April 16, 2016 strongly affected wood-frame houses and other infrastructure that was built to world-class standards. Contrary to […]

Catering Benchmark of Swiss Hospitals: Continued Research

This paper is a follow-up to the research titled, “A Method to Benchmark Swiss Hospital Catering” by Hofer, Honegger and Züger (2013). […]