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Conference rooms are an environment designed for collaboration. Within them, you’ll find employees exchanging ideas, discussing projects and working together to make important company decisions.
Two things are important to make these meetings effective — the space itself and the available tools. This fuels the need for a collaboration between facilities management (who owns the space) and IT (who owns the tools). Together, these two departments can effectively manage conference rooms, syncing their technologies to create the best experience possible for employees.
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By Scott E. Rupp
 For those working in facilities management, the following salary news is nothing new; but it never hurts to better understand your place in the market and how you stack up to your colleagues. According to new data, the median salary for all titles within facilities management in the field is US$85,000. Median salaries, raises and bonuses showed significant differences in different regions of the country.
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REMI Network
By 2020, there will be 34 billion connected devices worldwide, more than triple the number in 2015. There are several reasons for this rapid growth: drastically lower technology costs resulting in more devices with built-in sensors and wireless technology; ubiquitous smartphone use; a multitude of open wireless networks; and the wide availability of broadband internet.
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Push into place and get to work with the EcoLift Series. Its patented stored-power lift/lower system has no batteries or hydraulic oils for clean, quiet operation. A sturdy base with automatic locking wheels gives you greater confidence for working with both hands. Available in two heights for more options. Learn More
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Energy Manager Today
HVAC, LED and lighting innovations have helped propel businesses toward unprecedented efficiency savings.
According Forester Media’s white paper, “Efficiency on Multiple Levels,” the biggest change in energy efficiency is in capturing the energy savings from behavioral, optimized and attenuated devices. Here’s a breakdown of the drivers behind the innovation change within the industry.
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Co. Design
Working in an office with a lot of natural light doesn’t just make you more productive on the job and help you sleep better at night, it may also be vital to your intelligence. A new study from Michigan State University has found that spending too much time in dim areas, like poorly lit offices, could actually change the structure of rats’ brains, impacting the way they remember information and learn new things. It suggests that the quality of light in our physical environments may deeply affect us.
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Facility Executive
When it comes to workplace safety, employers often miss the mark in critical communication and planning, and could be unprepared to meet the future needs of employees, according to a recent survey by Rave Mobile Safety. With strict regulations that have been enforced for some time, respondents made it clear that they were aware of their workplace’s fire drill policy, as a resounding 87 percent said these plans are established and have been practiced at their work.
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BUILDINGS
A new roof is a steep investment, and its role in protecting the rest of your building means that if it’s not done right the first time, the consequences can be dire.
However, most facilities professionals don't have time to do double duty all day on the job site. That's where roof consultants and observers come in, explains Michael Clark, President of Michael E. Clark and Associates.
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Niagara Machine, Inc.
DiamaPro UV-HS Plus is formulated to protect a concrete floor with a very fast cure time to reduce downtime. There are systems that have tremendous chemical resistance but lack in abrasion resistance and vice versa. DiamaPro UV-HS Plus is the complete package; withstanding extreme forklift traffic while also preventing chemical attack from oils, acids and caustics producing an easy to clean floor.
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Los Angeles Times
Old brick buildings are one of the deadliest structures in an earthquake. Saif Hussain, a structural engineer who has helped write retrofit guidelines for Los Angeles and the American Society of Civil Engineers, explains why.
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National Real Estate Investor
Amol Sarva is co-founder and CEO of New York-based Knotel, a flexible office provider. But this isn’t Sarva’s first startup rodeo. After earning a doctorate in neuroscience from Stanford University, Sarva co-founded Halo Neuroscience, which invented a proprietary technology called Neuropriming used in a wearable device to improve the brain’s response to training and accelerate performance gains. He also co-founded Virgin Mobile USA and Peek Inc., a software solution provider that develops applications for mobile communication devices.
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