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Design Quarterly
The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has formally adopted RELi, a building resilience rating standard. The standard will soon become a global rating system under the USGBC's guidance, similar to but independent from LEED.
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USA Today
Wyndham Worldwide Corporation will acquire La Quinta Holdings Inc.'s hotel management business in a $1.95 billion cash deal announced Thursday.
The acquisition will be completed in the second quarter of this year, bringing Wyndham’s portfolio of hotels to more than 9,000 properties and 21 brands.
La Quinta has about 900 managed and franchised hotels.
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Skift
Smart speakers powered by artificial intelligence could be reaching the apex of their hype cycle.
Vendors displayed dozens of them at CES 2018 in Las Vegas last week, with many embedded into household devices instead of standing alone as a consumer product.
In the hospitality space, smart speaker adoption has been limited. Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, added an Amazon Echo unit to each hotel room in early 2017, while chains like Best Western and Marriott have also installed units in a small number of hotels.
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Buildings
Winter is trudging to an end, but the snow and slush left over could stick around – and mud from spring rainstorms isn't far behind. “A clean floor speaks volumes about a business,” says John Engel, Director of Marketing at Cintas. "If the weather causes customers and employees to track in mud, rain and debris, the floors see the worst of it."
It can be tough to foresee what type of cleaning your floors will need from day to day, but this checklist by cleaning provider Cintas can help you enhance your floor cleaning program to protect your customers and your flooring investment.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
The way companies answer the door is changing. Every person entering a lobby could compromise the integrity of the business and expose property owners to unforeseen risk. Visitor management software enables a facility to evolve their visitor management processes and prepare for the next knock at the door.
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FacilitiesNet
Being proactive in the roof evaluation process will allow the facility manager to manage the roofing assets on a prioritized basis and to develop a successful long-range roofing program.
Prior to starting a roof evaluation, review any existing information relative to the current roofing system. Drawings and specifications should be examined to discern what materials were used and how various details were designed.
Any warranties should also be reviewed to understand the duration remaining and various restrictions that could void the warranty.
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Green Lodging News
When it comes to implementing energy efficiency measures in hotels, the hospitality sector faces unique challenges such as overcoming the limitations between ownership and management and accessing capital for upgrades, all while complying with brand standards and meeting guest comfort expectations. Three Better Buildings partners, HEI Hotels & Resorts, Loews Hotels & Co., and Las Vegas Sands Corp., are successfully overcoming these barriers and achieving significant energy savings while making progress towards their Better Buildings Challenge commitment of reducing portfolio-wide energy use by 20 percent in a decade.
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Hotel Management
It's not enough for a guestroom to have a comfy bed and a big TV. With brands fighting for market share and travelers making new demands, guestrooms are catering to different niches by offering new perks, or sometimes offering much less than they used to.
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Proud Green Building
Automation, more and more, is helping efficient buildings become higher performing. Heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems. Lights. Even window shades.
Applications that used to require someone to manually turn them on and off and adjust the settings — like tube TVs before the advent of the remote control — have quickly vaulted into the world of high-tech and become connected by a common moniker: smart.
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Hotel News Now
At some sustainability-focused hotels, sweating the small stuff makes a big difference.
Hans Pfister, president and co-founder of the Cayuga Collection, has seen firsthand how something as small as a plastic straw can add up to a big problem. Some months back, he organized a company retreat to "a beautiful island in the Gulf of Nicoya (of the Pacific shore of Costa Rica) called San Lucas, where we picked up 30 bags of plastic that had washed up on the beach."
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