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Facility managers are expected to take steps to protect the environment and the people who use the facility while supporting organizational effectiveness and minimizing risks and liabilities.

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Six Steps Hospital Facilities Can Take to Reduce the Risk of Spreading Infectious Disease

You can help ensure safe operations of your facility by monitoring and controlling six areas.

Top 6 Features For A Safer Workplace

Workplace Reentry: Purpose-built features to bring employees back to the office safely. To facilitate a healthy, productive back to work transition, it’s […]

Tips on Enhancing Employee Productivity in the Workplace: What FMs Can Do to Contribute to Employee Productivity

Paying attention to employee satisfaction and comfort shows your employees that you care. Happy employees lead to better business results. Using Dr. […]

Healthy buildings: How technologies can reduce infectious disease transmission

Building controls integrated with smart building technology and applications can be enabled to help simplify, improve, and automate safety and infection risk […]

Driving Distractions Policy

Outline of driver distractions for identification of hazards in the workplace and application of appropriate controls to reduce risk. Distractors, including electronic […]

Respecting Human Limits: Densification Research and Design

We are often asked to make office space as efficient as possible. Our clients want to know “What can we do in […]

Sustainability For All

Global results of the 2013 Sustainable Cultures in the Workplace survey conducted to inform executives about sustainability investment, workforce attitudes on sustainability, […]

How HVAC and IAQ optimization supports healthy buildings now (part 1)

This blog post goes over the steps needed to enure occupant well-being.

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- […]

Population Health Management: A New Business Model for a Healthier Workforce

As Population Health Management (PHM) continues to mature as a model for keeping populations healthy, the programmatic elements of employer PHM efforts […]