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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

A cutting-edge laundry facility serves as an example for effective implementation of balanced eco-friendly design that maximizes patient safety and infection control […]

Clean Indoor Air Sustainability and Energy Savings: Yes You Can Have It All

An explanation of clean indoor air sustainability as achieved through the principles of impingement, interception and diffusion, with advice on filter efficiency […]

Sustainability How-To Guide: A Comprehensive Guide to Water Conservation

This guide provides instructions to help facility managers benchmark, evaluate and reduce water consumption, defining domestic, processed and outdoor water types and […]

Sustainability How-to Guide: Carbon Footprint

This guide provides process tools for monitoring building-related carbon emissions, presenting the GHG emission inventory process, discussing best practices and benchmarking, and […]

Sustainability How-To Guide: Commissioning Existing Buildings

This guide addresses sustainability implementation within existing structures. The commissioning process is described, including how to select a project, issue a request […]

Sustainable Facility Management

Advice from expert FMs on evaluating the sustainability of existing facilities, development of sustainable strategy for incorporating sustainability into building operations, and […]

Sustainability How-to Guide: Engaging Occupants in Your Sustainability Program

This guide introduces the benefits of engaging occupants in sustainability initiatives and provides a step-by-step approach for designing, implementing and measuring the […]

Are you going to eat that? Developing an On-Site Food Waste Program

This overview addressees the pros and cons of various food waste composting options, such as on-site composting for catering food waste and […]

The Green Workplace: Managing Green Change in Your Organization

Learn how to use change management programs to guide organizations through the process of greening occupant’s behavior as they adapt to changes […]

IFMA and Sustainability: Initiatives & Opportunities

If you need to know how to proceed concerning an energy and sustainability project, you go to IFMA.org’s “How-to Guides,” which are […]