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Smart Glass: Sustainability and Security for High-Performance Buildings

Examine how a wide range of sustainability and visual security benefits, dynamic controllability options, and functional applications establish smart glass as an […]

Facility Management Leadership for the 21st Century

A brief overview of the evolving FM world, addressing FM leadership practices and development, and predicted challenges of the FM professional. st […]

Observation: Turning What you See Into Smart Information

As a facility manager, we care for our buildings by watching and looking. It is our job to notice the dirt on […]

Sustainable Asset Reliability: The Foundation for Maintaining Your Certified Facilities

Meet the challenge of long-term sustainability and maintainability of your building and systems by addressing these essential keys, from management vision to […]

Smart Lighting There Is More to It Than Changing Lamps and Ballasts

A beginner’s guide to corporate lighting upgrade tips for maximized energy savings. Review of lighting technologies from the scope of the three […]

Service Innovation in the FM Industry

Innovation is one of the top challenges for the facility management industry. Despite having improved over the past 10 years, FM companies […]

Transforming Complex Facilities with Knowledge Transfer Through BIM

This whitepaper asserts building information modeling (BIM) as a facility management tool for laboratories and complex facilities to better address current and […]

Managing a Multi-Generational Workforce

Consider the implications and challenges of a workplace employing workers from four generations (Seniors, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y/Millennials), and […]

Working with Change Management in Service Outsourcing

Service outsourcing creates many changes. For the employees who will be outsourced, the changes are significant. But also for the rest of […]

Improving Facility Management Operations Through Optimization of Performance Metrics

Use a customizable maintenance management system (CMMS) to measure performance in organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Then, optimize performance metrics to establish standards, […]