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Start the New Year by Spreading Prevention not Germs

A listing of recommended preventative measures, for facilities and occupants, to help reduce the spread of office illness. Start the New Year […]

The Efficiency-Resilience Nexus Factsheet

This fact sheet outlines the importance of resilience for building owners, operators, and occupants, and the role that energy efficiency and onsite […]

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 […]

Cleaning: Finding a Microbiological Standard

This literature review contains background and findings on standards and benchmarks for the cleaning of high frequency touch surfaces, focusing on standards […]

Quantifying the Effect of BIM and COBie for FM

This paper investigates the effects of using building information modeling (BIM) and construction-operations building information exchange (COBie) data for facility management in […]

An Example of an Effective Lockout-Tagout Procedure

Gain an understanding of lockout-tagout (or lock and tag), a safety procedure used in industry and research settings to ensure that dangerous […]

The Hole Truth About U.S. Buildings

A survey conducted by the Building Commissioning Association highlights the negative impact of duct leakage in U.S. buildings, with details of the […]

PARKING IN THE PANDEMIC - COVID-19 and Commuter Behavior in Large Cities

COVID has changed the way individuals commute. People no longer feel safe utilizing mass transit and are on the roads now more […]

Comparison of Thirty Green Building Projects Across the United States: Common Elements

In an effort to create a foundation for green evaluation, this study examines the green elements used in 16 single-family homes and […]

Smart Strategies for the Human Resources Side of Our Supply Chains

Before COVID-19, many American business sectors faced increasing demands coupled with a labor shortage. The pandemic has tilted that dynamic for logistics […]