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Buildings in the Cloud: From Smart Buildings to Smart Cities

This white paper discusses the challenges facing cities worldwide, identifies solutions, describes the results and delivers realistic next steps for your city […]

Saving Your Sanity in a Foreign Land

Advice for facility professionals facing the globalization of commerce, an unprecedented demographic shift and increasing workforce migration, highlighting common challenges and solutions […]

Gobility: Designing and Managing Space on the Go

A brief overview of teleworking statistics, benefits, and challenges, plus the case for mobility as a work solution.

Let There Be Light! Retrofitting Office Lighting Offers Triple Bottom Line Benefits

The Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD) at Carnegie Mellon University statistically links six lighting and daylighting retrofit options with lighting […]

Qualifying Contractors With a Simplified Scorecard

Review an objective methodology to assess a contractor’s qualifications using a simple matrix, and learn how to determine "best value" when hiring […]

Successfully Operating LEED Buildings: Setting Your Building Apart in the New Normal

Learn how to stay current on industry knowledge and apply up-to-date expertise on projects with LEED EB Recertification. Review case study of […]

Putting the "P" in FM: Project Management for the FM Professional

Research to establish and reinforce the correlation between FM and Project Management (PM), outlining ways PM best practices can be implemented in […]

New Ways of Looking at Facility Capital Program Management

Direct comparison of three assessment methodologies, the component, BMAR or parametric methods, to help the reader identify the approach that would produce […]

Saving Big Money Creating Value in a Tough Economy

Learn how to save money in a rough economy, create a constant culture of improvement, and generate a competitive bidding process that […]

Media Training for FMs: Applying What Works at Home and in the Office

The skill of effective communication is discussed at its most fundamental levels, building toward specific strategies for persuasive communication designed to motivate […]