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Don’t Overlook Adaptive Reuse as a Workplace Strategy: How to Plan, the Advantages and a Case Study of Department Store to Office Conversion
During the recent “New Normal Economy” workplace strategies have focused on making the best use of existing space or consolidating operations. With […]
FM Utilizes the Research Capability of the Student Chapter
In a changing facility management (FM) environment, a large IFMA chapter has identified the importance of innovation in its survival and success. […]
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 […]
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” – […]
IFMA and Sustainability: Initiatives & Opportunities
If you need to know how to proceed concerning an energy and sustainability project, you go to IFMA.org’s “How-to Guides,” which are […]
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 […]
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 […]
A Cigarette, a Fire and 3 Years to Find a Solution: Lacrosse Apartments, Docklands
On the evening of 24 December 2014 the occupant of apartment 605 at the Lacrosse Building put down his cigarette. What happened […]
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 […]
Work is Evolving, the Workplace Should Too
When people talk about Space As a Service, you immediately think about WeWork, Knotel, and other community shared space providers. While these […]