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Workplace Technologies for Building Up Your Organization’s Resiliency

IAdea CEO & Founder, John C. Wang recently joined Mike Petrusky, Director of Events, iOFFICE on the Workplace Innovator Podcast for a […]

A City Quests for the Gold

The City of Richmond, California achieved a Gold LEED Rating for the renovation of their City Hall and former Hall of Justice, […]

Sustainability How-To Guide: Sustainable Landscaping

This guide reviews the design, construction and maintenance stages of landscaping, explaining how to incorporate sustainability at each phase, decrease maintenance costs […]

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 […]

Six Suggestions for Managing Retiring Facility Worker Transitions

To help fill in the knowledge gap between retiring workers and next-generation staff, ARC Facilities has prepared this list of helpful suggestions […]

Pursuing Racial Diversity in IFMA Accredited Degree Programs

An action research study identifying strategies to increase racial diversity in the International Facility Management Association (IFMA) Accredited Degree Programs (ADPs) through […]

A Critical Review of Value Management and Whole-life Costing on Construction Projects

This paper captures the range of conflicting assumptions on the theory and practice of value management (VM) and life cycle cost (LCC). […]