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Facility Dude
The weather forecast was right: Sunday rolled around and with it a massive blizzard. In an ideal world, you'd have nothing else to do on your building's to-do list and would have more than enough time and resources to efficiently clear out the parking lot. But that's not how real life works. As a facilities manager, snow removal is just one of the many demanding duties you have to do on a daily basis.
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Energy Manager Today
Building owners and facility managers are continually monitoring building conditions while trying to balance performance and occupant comfort with the cost of running a building efficiently. It's an important balancing act.
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Sourceable
According to Statista, the revenue of the global hotel industry was US$457 billion in 2011, with Euromonitor International forecasting a US$550 billion revenue in 2016.
In Australia, IBISWorld predicts industry revenue to grow at an annualized 2.4 per cent between 2011 and 2016, with 2015-16 to total AU$6 billion. They have credited the rise from strong growth in Asian tourism, particularly from China.
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Proud Green Building
Retrofitting buildings improves energy efficiency, saves money and provides a more welcoming workspace. As new and more affordable technologies enter the marketplace, building operators and tenants have more options for reducing their operating costs, energy use and water consumption.
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Environmental Leader
Reducing e-waste not only conserves resources and keeps toxins out of the environment, it also saves money in waste management costs — and can help firms avoid costly compliance fees as a result of illegally storing or disposing of e-waste.
Machine Design offers five strategies to reduce e-waste. These include upgrading hardware or software instead of purchasing new devices and selling or donating old electronics that still work.
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Lodging
The penchant of hotel developers to construct properties with postage-stamp size guestrooms might not be the best course of action for the long term, according to a group of global consultants who participated in a roundtable discussion about current industry trends. Global hotel brands have been more accommodating with existing offerings and new brand launches that possess smaller room sizes simply because developers are demanding it, consultants said.
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FacilitiesNet
Maintenance and engineering managers hear the phrase "out of sight, out of mind" all too often when it comes to roofs on institutional and commercial facilities. Roofs are large, long-term investments for facilities, so managers often must find temporary solutions to prevent long-term problems and major leaks issues, when costs can skyrocket.
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BUILDINGS
A new standard has been created to standardize the notation, syntax and symbols used in building facade inspections. The E3036 Guide for Notating Facade Conditions in the Field standard from ASTM International provides a uniform method to use and understand common symbols for architects, engineers and building professionals.
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Service Futures
Economic pressures from regulatory requirements and increased competition is pressuring companies to evaluate how they conduct business. As a consequence of higher scrutiny and tighter regulations, companies have started looking for partners that can deliver and manage facility services while taking on the associated risk.
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Facility Executive
The U.S. building industry is under increasing pressure to deliver high-performance buildings to meet the needs of owners, occupants, and the government. Owners and contractors are looking for opportunities to improve certainty in schedule, performance, and cost while managing risks. At the same time, there is an increasing concern from multiple segments of the industry on the availability of a skilled workforce, as well as the productivity of the buildings workforce today and into the future.
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