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The systematic approach to gathering and evaluating information from a variety of sources to get a complete and accurate picture of an area of interest.

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Inside the World of Sports Facility Management: Behind-the-Scenes Insights into Delivering Memorable Fan Experiences

Sports facility management involves ensuring seamless fan experiences by maintaining stadium infrastructure, overseeing safety measures, and providing amenities like themed restaurants and […]

How to Maintain Constantly Evolving Smart Buildings

Modern building systems must support devices from yesterday, today, and tomorrow. Here are some best practices for how to make that all […]

Navigating Retirements and Labor Shortages in the Facility Management Industry

The facility management industry relies heavily on deep knowledge of buildings and equipment. But with retirements and labor shortages occurring simultaneously, there’s […]

Digital Services: A guide to making data-driven decisions for your facilities

A guide to how connected experts help you make data-driven decisions for your facilities to run continuously, efficiently and sustainably.

How Occupancy Data Transforms the Way We Operate Buildings

This report is meant to help building owners and operators understand how to best use occupancy data and what it can do […]

The Future of Technology in Facility Management: Today's Differentiators are Tomorrow’s Best Practices

As leaders of commercial real estate’s technology evolution, facility professionals must harness data generated by buildings to operate them as efficiently as […]

Occupancy Outcomes Why the project begins after occupancy and why tracking outcomes is imperative

In this presentation, we will discuss how the AEC industry struggles with meaningful transformation because of a key gap in its knowledge- […]

Construction to Maintenance: Leveraging FM Data through the Building Life Cycle

In today’s real estate environment, organizations are tasked with providing premier workplace environments for a variety of reasons. Attraction of new employees, […]

Building Information Modeling (BIM) for FM: An Industry Survey

This presentation presents discovery of current methods that FMs use to manage and track assets; identify attributes for Building Information Modeling (BIM) […]

Data Integration: Building a Digital Ecosystem for FM Success

Learning Objective 1: Identify challenges in addressing data integration and data aggregation issues for FM. •Learning Objective 2: Define the components of […]