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Lodging Engineer
Installation, cost, maintenance, convenience, durability, security — these are all important factors to consider before a lodging facility or hotel chain switches its door lock technology (or any technology). While hotels search for a harmonious balance of benefits for the guests, hotel staff and hotel's spending, there seems to be a new technology winning the heart of the hospitality industry: RFID.
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Hotel News Now
Cities and states across the country have legislation requiring employers to remove the criminal history question from job applications and allow a criminal background check only after a conditional offer of employment has been made.
Los Angeles is the latest high-profile city to enact an ordinance to "ban the box" with its Fair Chance Act. Although it has the same name as New York City’s law, each city's ordinance is specific to its own jurisdiction.
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Sourceable
Building automation systems have been around for a few years now, and have been touted as a sort of "Star Wars" technology that run buildings automatically and efficiently. Only recently, however, has the reality started to match up to the promise.
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Facility Executive
All matter breaks down over time. The structures that surround us today are no exception to that law of physics. Some building materials are more durable than others, like stone and steel, but unfortunately the days of structures surviving thousands of years, like the Egyptian pyramids and Roman cathedrals, is over. Preventive maintenance of building exteriors is more important than ever.
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FacilitiesNet
Though energy efficiency is the most cited benefit, LEDs have several benefits beyond just energy efficiency. Indeed, we've come a long way since Edison's first commercially produced light bulb, back in 1880, using a carbonized bamboo filament. Its most apt replacement, the LED (light emitting diode), is six to seven times more energy efficient and cuts energy use by up to 80 percent. But beyond the energy savings, there are even greater benefits to LED use as technology advances.
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IFMA's FMJ magazine
Given how much time is spent in the workplace, workers need a setting that inspires and motivates, and businesses need a setting that promotes productivity and employee engagement. A strategically designed workplace can accomplish both.
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Energy Manager Today
Resource and energy management may seem like a dull topic to some. But to smart business owners, the right resource management strategies are key to achieving cost savings, meeting corporate responsibility goals and gaining valuable insight into the performance of capital investments.
Benchmarking can serve as the foundation of an effective resource management approach — supplementing facility-level energy data with a more in-depth and actionable view of your sites' complex systems.
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Facility Executive
Smartphones and tablets are changing the way society communicates with each other and accesses content. Forrester Research labels this as "the mobile mind shift — the expectation that a person can get what they want in their immediate context and moments of need." Simply put, people turn to their mobile devices for answers to their questions.
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Proud Green Building
You may be aware of the benefits of green cleaning, choosing products with lower environmental and health impacts and ensuring they are used efficiently and effectively. But does your cleaning services provider know them?
How about the employees who work in the building?
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Energy Manager Today
Energy managers understand that there are "low-hanging fruit" steps and more fundamental — and more extensive — deep energy retrofits which, of course, cost more and have correspondingly greater upside potential.
Since the spring of 2015, Efficiency Vermont has run The Deep Retrofit pilot program at five organizations.
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The Data Center Journal
The data center facility management team has a sizable job: maintaining 100 percent uptime and managing all the variables to keep systems operational, including the environmental infrastructure. The last thing the team wants to worry about is rewiring panels or decrypting schematics for new hardware or system retrofits.
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