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Hotel News Now
Ever evolving, the hospitality industry continues to adapt to changing conditions and the adoption of new design and construction trends.
Today, hotel developers are experiencing escalating construction and land costs, lengthening construction timelines and the diminishing quality of construction. As such, modular construction has been gaining a solid reputation as an innovative building approach for the hospitality design community due to its many benefits including speed, quality, practicality and cost.
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Hotel Management
A number of major hotel chains piloted or adopted mobile key technology last year. Starwood, Hilton, Hyatt and Marriott are or will be allowing guests to unlock their rooms via a smartphone app. But what does that mean for individual hoteliers? How did they prepare for the incoming mobile lock invasion?
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AutomatedBuildings.com
Facility managers are moving away from printed schematics, work orders and energy consumption charts to the digital age where technology and analytics deliver information and control any place, any time and in any format.
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Food & Hospitality World
Textile furnishings are of great importance for 88 percent of hotels. This is one of the findings of the new Management Report titled "Textiles in Hotel Design: Hotel Furnishing Success Factors" published by Messe Frankfurt on the occasion of Heimtextil 2016. The International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles held in January 2016 offers the world's biggest range of furnishing textiles for hotels.
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TechTarget
The cost of an unplanned data center outage is now up to nearly $9,000 per minute.
Some data center pros, though, suggested this estimate is too low, and the more meaningful number is the total hit over an entire data center outage cycle. The Ponemon Institute's statistics — based on confidential interviews with operators of 63 data centers to update two similar studies in 2010 and 2013 — calculated a data center outage costs businesses an average of $8,851 per minute.
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Hotel Management
With today's rapidly evolving technology and people's mobile lifestyles, the desire for mobile key technology is here. Many tech-savvy hotel guests manage most aspects of their life and travel from their smartphone. Many guests no longer want to keep track of or fumble with keycards each time they enter their room. The mobile keys are activated through the smartphone app — when the guest checks in through the app, the hotel sends the room numbers and enables the phone to act as a virtual key, allowing guests to bypass the front desk.
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By John Haley
As a national HVAC provider, we help our clients look at their entire portfolio and develop plans and programs to help reduce the annual operating expenses. Our clients can manage their HVAC equipment in one of two ways, proactive and reactive. A proactive approach focuses on maintaining the equipment on a routine basis with the hopes of reducing the number of reactive calls. The reactive approach focuses on handling equipment issues as they happen.
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FacilitiesNet
Have you ever had a discussion with your significant other about non-value-added activities? For instance, why rake leaves when the wind eventually will blow them into the neighbor's yard? Why make the bed if you're just going to sleep in it again tonight?
Non-value-added activities can be a problem for maintenance and engineering departments, and managers would be wise to take a closer look at technicians' priorities and activities.
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Facility Executive
Prospects of water damage to a building are not something that should be taken lightly. In the United States, water damage is the second most frequent reason for an insurance claim. In total, these claims account for a staggering $11 billion of insurance claims each year, and they are a cause of trouble for insurance companies and facility managers alike.
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Energy Manager Today
A key reason why the building automation market is growing quickly is that the benefits are broad and all-encompassing. There is far more than a single "killer app."
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