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Disrupting the Balance Sheets of Traditional Cafeterias
The financials of a traditional cafeteria model are challenged by macroeconomic factors like increased costs to labor, real estate, and food. Cultural […]
FM Service Management: Technology Essentials for Each Generation
It used to be that our challenges were in developing a single strategy to deploy client facing FM Technologies in the workplace. […]
Building Awareness: What it means when facilities become “people literate”
New technologies such as sensors, biometric readers, voice recognition devices, satisfaction buttons, and smart materials are making our buildings more “aware” – […]
Build Your Energy Program
Saving energy and reducing utility costs using today’s technologies and best practices has never been more achievable. However, many Facility Managers have […]
Weathering Climate Change: Resiliency Strategies for Existing Buildings
In 2017, there was a shift within the facilities management community from sustainability to resiliency. The effort now is to counter the […]
How to Make the FM Outsourcing Decision for Small and Medium Companies
The trend toward outsourcing facility management is well established among the Fortune 500 companies. The benefits of outsourcing are known and have […]
Working and Living in the “Left of Boom”: Developing a Survival Mindset for the Workplace and Life
By Susan Moury
“Left of Boom” is a bit of security/business continuity jargon for all the actions done to prepare for and/or prevent an incident. […]
Novel Methods of Capturing and Killing Airborne Contamination and Airborne Pathogens
Discusses new ways to address indoor air-pollution and disease, hospital-acquired Infections, existing air-cleansing technology, airborne particle movement and capture, and novel technical […]
Space Utilization in Real Time: How Sensors and the Internet of Things are Providing Essential Data to Support New Ways of Working
For decades, facility managers and planners have relied on guesswork to know how workspace is actually utilized. The problem has become acute […]
A Cigarette, a Fire and 3 Years to Find a Solution: Lacrosse Apartments, Docklands
By Fraser Main
On the evening of 24 December 2014 the occupant of apartment 605 at the Lacrosse Building put down his cigarette. What happened […]