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High Stakes Business: People, Property and Services

This IFMA research report was created to help facility managers navigate the challenges, and identify trends and practices in the area of […]

Preparedness: Are You Ready for the Next Disaster?

Supporting proactive disaster planning, this guide provides disaster scenario statistics, explanation of evacuation versus invacuation, and a listing of tools for crime […]

The 17 Mistakes Made in Emergency Plans and How to Avoid and Correct Them

Review why emergency plans are integral to strategic emergency preparedness and business continuity, while identifying seventeen common errors and oversights of emergency […]

Control Consumption and Costs with Active Energy Management

Energy can be the third largest expense for organizations, but the active management of energy consumption using industry best practices and technology […]

Workplace Resilience When a Disaster Strikes: Strategic Questions to Keep the Workplace Productive

Workplace strategy plays a vital role in business resilience as people, place and technology are critical to resuming operations after a disaster. […]

The Disaster Experience QuickFire for Facility Managers

Learn the basics of business continuity planning, including principles of emergency management, business continuity outlining and planning produce, questions for self-evaluating disaster […]

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 […]

A Cigarette, a Fire and 3 Years to Find a Solution: Lacrosse Apartments, Docklands

On the evening of 24 December 2014 the occupant of apartment 605 at the Lacrosse Building put down his cigarette. What happened […]

Emergency Response Management: A Plan for Failure

Explains the importance of Emergency Response Management and planning, including the creation of developing an Emergency Preparedness Plan, a Hazard Vulnerability Plan […]

When the Smoke Clears: How Planning Enabled Business to Continue During the Northern California Wildfires

How ready are you for a big disaster? As a small business, when we undertook the ISO Business Continuity Management Systems certification, […]