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People, Places, Planet: The Future of Workplace Management

Learn how facility managers can leverage technology to integrate ESG (environmental, social and governance) into Facilities Management operations.

Integrating Smart Building Control Systems to Enable Grid-Interactive Buildings (GIB)

Buildings are a major contributor to global energy-related CO2 emissions. Efforts to achieve net zero emissions for buildings involve, in part, reducing […]

Asset Tagging and Field Verification Becomes Easy with Smart Building Technology

As facilities age-organizing, streamlining, and updating information related to building assets can be a herculean task for facilities managers. This requires considerable […]

Leveraging Elevator IoT to Unlock Your Building's Potential

Beyond predictive maintenance capabilities, IoT will provide building owners and property manager’s access to data such as wait times, usage by floor […]

4 Ways Smart Building Technology Helps Optimize Operational Efficiency

This blog covers smart building technology and how it helps optimize operational efficiency and optimizing facility management and reduce costs. This is […]

Now is the Time to Move to the Next-Generation of Building Management Systems

The capabilities of a building management system, or BMS, need to evolve to keep up with the demands of building owners, operators, […]

Healthy buildings: How technologies can reduce infectious disease transmission

Building controls integrated with smart building technology and applications can be enabled to help simplify, improve, and automate safety and infection risk […]

FM Transformation – Creating a Demand-Driven Service Model

The facility management industry has seen a significant change by introducing new technology and automation and data.

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 […]

Defining High Performance Buildings for Operations and Maintenance

This research synthesizes literature about high performance buildings with a focus on O&M, concluding that systems-thinking (for both building systems and organizational […]