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Facility Executive
Hampton by Hilton, Hilton's upper-midscale brand, has introduced a new Hampton Inn & Suites by Hilton, and Hampton Inn by Hilton prototype for the Americas. Featuring a new exterior design, refreshed public space décor and updated guestroom case goods, the new hotel design provides owners and developers with a flexible building model that embraces emerging guest preferences, improved functionality, and design efficiency.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
A properly designed pavement maintenance plan can save you US$16.25 per square yard, which means that an average big box home improvement store can save US$357,000 every 15 years just by taking care of their parking lot. If the savings are so clear, why are so many parking lots in such poor condition? Maybe it's because asphalt is boring.
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Quartzy
In the decade since Airbnb was founded, travelers have seemed to fall into two categories: Those who want to live like a local in an apartment, and those who want full-service amenities in a traditional hotel. For the former, rediscovering the finer elements of a hotel stay — like a chic hotel bar or room service coffee — is now possible thanks to a new trend: small, design-led hotels of about 10 rooms or fewer, placed in neighborhoods where you typically don't find hotels or big hospitality brands.
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Facility Executive
The continuous innovation in digital technology means that the world as we know it, is changing rapidly. Although smart devices are becoming remarkably smaller, they are able to keep organizations, their business processes, and the users that interact with them, seamlessly connected. All this is thanks to digital transformation — the use of technology to radically improve your business operations across the whole organization.
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Hospitality Net
According to analysts at Lodging Econometrics (LE), the five U.S. markets with the largest hotel construction pipelines by project count are: New York with 169 Projects/29,641 Rooms, Dallas with 159 Projects/19,149 Rooms, Houston with 148 Projects/16,158 Rooms, Nashville 119 Projects/15,992 Rooms and Los Angeles which has 115 Projects/17,155 Rooms in its pipeline.
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Hotel News Now
Striking the right balance between function and form can be a struggle when implementing lighting in hotels, said Susan Cordovilla-Gorton, assistant director of design at HVS Design.
But with the advances in LED lighting and the ability to find a synergy between the technical features of a fixture, it's gotten easier, she said.
And with the rapid change in the last few years from "incandescent to compact fluorescent to LED, many owners are having to re-evaluate the compatibility of the dimming systems to make sure they can properly control the latest lighting fixtures and bulbs," Cordovilla-Gorton said.
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Facilitiesnet
The public tends to view fires in institutional and commercial facilities as one-time events that occur and are over quickly. Facility managers know differently. Those whose facilities have been hit by fire know that the fire is just the beginning of a long process of repair and recovery, both for the building itself and for the occupants and visitors who must cope with the damage and recovery.
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CNN
Concrete: We can't live with it, can't live without it. A combination of cement, water and ground rock or sand, on the surface concrete might seem crushingly mundane. Yet it has defined construction in recent centuries and with it, in part, modernity.
But do we need to re-evaluate our concrete habit for our sakes and the planet's? Production of cement is disastrous for our biosphere, while the degradation of many concrete buildings has some construction experts predicting a colossal headache in the future.
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Bisnow
Construction costs in Chicago rose 5.35 percent in Q1, according to Rider Levett Bucknall's North American construction cost report, and that was before fabricators started hiking prices on their materials after the Trump administration announced its 25 percent steel tariff. The developers and contractors who spoke at Bisnow's Chicago Construction and Development event at the historic Drake Hotel Wednesday morning indicated they are looking at tech advancements as a way to reduce costs, often before work begins on a site.
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Scott E. Rupp
The Internet of Things is playing a substantial role for every entity, organization and individual, and the real benefits are still coming to light. While the term was introduced in 1999, the concept took hold in the middle of the current decade. Research firm Gartner estimated 6.4 billion internet-connected things were in use worldwide just two years ago — and expects three times that many in use by the start of the next decade.
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