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Hotel Executive
There is a new innovative way to pay for hospitality construction projects: Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) financing. PACE, adopted as enabling legislation in 32 states and with active programs in about half of them, is gaining momentum as a flexible, available and creative tool in which to finance almost any technology that saves energy and/ or water.
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Green Lodging News
Start discussing a technical topic and watch as people's eyes glaze over, even if those people are fully aware that it's something they should be paying attention to. Embarking on a path toward a more sustainable and energy efficient hotel operation qualifies as one of these "glazed" subjects, so to eliminate any possibility of eyelid fatigue, let's talk about this extremely important issue in terms of something just a bit more fun — golf.
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Occupational Health & Safety
The recently released ANSI/ASSE Z359.1-2016 standard — now officially named the Fall Protection Code — is the most current and robust resource for information to ensure you are getting the right equipment to meet today's standards. The Z359.1 standard takes effect on Aug. 14, 2017, and it's critical for all buyers of fall protection equipment to learn about the new standards now to understand and prepare for the changes that come with the updated requirements.
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Hotel News Now
Hotel developers looking to speed up a project's time to market are increasingly turning to new-breed modular hotel designs, which have evolved to the point where customized, fully finished guestrooms are now factory assembled and shipped to the job site. And as evidenced by the variety of modular hotel projects now underway nationwide, it's a product that's not nearly as cookie-cutter as one might expect.
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FacilitiesNet
The conditions of the space where flooring is to be installed are increasingly ignored based on the number of claims, complaints and flooring failures we're seeing around the country. Of major importance is the fact that the space in which the flooring material is to be installed be conditioned as if it was occupied by those who will populate it.
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BUILDINGS
The secret to saving energy in your facility may not be in deep retrofits or sophisticated new systems. It may be as simple as finding and fixing the causes of energy waste in your existing HVAC system.
When time and budgets are already stretched, it's easy to adopt an "out of sight, out of mind" mentality. As long as the system is running dependably, what could be wrong?
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BOMI International via FMLink
Simple and obvious behaviors distinguish effective groups from ineffective groups. They are obvious enough that managers tend to overlook them until they impede group performance or create significant conflict.
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FacilitiesNet
Illnesses occur year-round, but certain illness-causing germs like the common cold, norovirus and influenza peak during the winter months when we spend more time indoors in close quarters. According to The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), productivity losses linked to absenteeism cost employers $225.8 billion annually in the U.S. (approximately $1,011 per employee due to illness alone), and the common cold is the main reason that adults miss work.
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RMI via GreenBiz
We have long used data to improve our buildings' performance and to inform building planning and operations. Building automation systems have replaced the manual operation of most large commercial buildings, and energy models utilizing data from existing buildings have been instrumental in informing energy codes and retrofit practices.
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