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Hospitality Net
Converting to LED lighting is a standard practice these days with numerous benefits beginning with energy savings and reduced unit costs. And unlike the curlicue CFCs and other traditional filament bulb predecessors, LEDs now offer a myriad of variations.
One of the experts in this field is Douglas Schwartz, the CEO of Planet Awaken, a worldwide leader in municipal and large-scale installations.
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Green Lodging News
In the United States, 16 locations, ranging from entire state policies to county laws, require some type of energy benchmarking. Many regulations are new, and the cumbersome process is costing hotels thousands of dollars every year.
Energy benchmarking — the process of tracking a building's annual energy use and using a standard metric to compare the building's performance against past performance and to its peers nationwide — is gaining momentum as businesses and building owners see huge savings in crunching the numbers and making small adjustments to their energy use.
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FacilitiesNet
Maintenance and engineering managers confronted with a problematic roof have a difficult decision to make. Is the best option to repair the existing roof, leave the existing roofs in place and install a new roof over it, or remove and replace the existing roof? The answer depends on several factors that managers must consider before making a decision.
The right decision can result in reduced risk to employees and operations, efficient use of funds, and long-term roof performance.
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Facility Executive
In late December 2016, the Denver City Council unanimously passed an ordinance aimed at reducing energy use in the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions by requiring energy benchmarking and transparency in multi-family and commercial buildings. The new ordinance, the Energize Denver program, is a key component of the city's efforts to achieve Denver's 2020 Sustainability and Climate Action Plan goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions below 1990 levels by 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050.
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Skift
The onset of an economic slowdown in China does not seem to have dampened the country's appetite for foreign investment — especially in the hospitality sector.
This year the hotel industry has seen once again just how popular it is with investors from the country who appear keen to branch out from their home market.
In the last twelve months alone, insurance company Anbang and conglomerate HNA Group have both spent billions of dollars doing a number of deals.
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Natural Resources Defense Council
The U.S. Energy Department finalized a new energy efficiency standard for "packaged boilers" that heat commercial and multifamily buildings, which will save consumers and businesses billions of dollars on their heating bills.
Nearly a quarter of the commercial floor space in the United States is heated by packaged boilers, and given that space heating is by far the biggest energy user in these and other commercial buildings, the standard will trigger a significant amount of savings.
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FacilitiesNet
Water shortages are spreading to a growing number of regions of the country, including states in the Northeast and Southeast. To address the shortages, communities and municipalities are implementing water restrictions designed to curtail water use on lawns and in other outdoor areas. As with many environmental challenges, however, California is leading the way in developing and implementing next-phase measures that go beyond watering limits.
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FMLink
Multinational technology provider Intel recently identified the following key smart building trends for 2017.
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Facility Executive
Facility managers have a duty to deliver high-quality, reliable solutions to their customers/occupants in the most cost-effective manner possible. To do so, they must have a broad understanding of the tools and solutions available to maximize the operational efficiency of the buildings they manage. This is often accomplished by streamlining processes and solutions that effectively respond to inputs and outputs from various devices.
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Skift
What should the hotel of the future look like?
That’s what Deloitte attempted to answer recently when it conducted an ethnographic research study with Doblin.
What Deloitte found in its research was that the hotel industry needs to think outside "silos defined by brands and spaces" and become an "integrator" of experiences, people, cultures, spaces, and processes. In other words, the hotel of the future is about people, first and foremost. The hotel of the future has to think outside the traditional four walls and into the overall experience.
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The Associated Press via CBS News
Minnesota's first-in-the nation ban on soaps containing the once ubiquitous germ-killer triclosan takes effect Jan. 1, but the people who spearheaded the law say it's already having its desired effect on a national level.
The federal government also called for a ban in September of this year, which will take effect in September 2017. Major manufacturers have largely phased out the chemical already, with some products being marketed as triclosan-free. It's an example, say some, of how changes can start at a local level.
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