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Building Design + Construction
Ten years from now, a hotel stay will be a much different experience than today. Picture this: As you approach the property entrance, you see a massive art installation illuminated by an LED light show. You walk through the door to the lobby, bypass the check-in area, and are guided to your room by your smartphone and dynamic digital signage.
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WWBT-TV
More hotels are now offering a new convenience: digital room keys. They are the next wave in high-tech travel, but experts are worried you could pay a steep price for this convenience.
Dorinda Purvis has a lot to keep track of when she travels. One thing she's glad she doesn't have to worry about losing anymore? Her hotel key.
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Facility Executive
For many people, the term "modern commercial architecture" brings to mind grand structures veiled in steel, glass, and concrete. And while gleaming curtain walls and sweeping composite shells can garner attention, it's often the finer detail — the function over the aesthetics — that makes a building facade work for its occupants. For facility management professionals, this is vitally important.
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IFMA's FMJ Magazine
Mixed-use developments are on the rise, with residences, retail, hotels, nightlife and office spaces united in a walkable environment. Parking is still an important part of the picture. By implementing technology, zoned parking and an attentive maintenance program, a facility can maintain a financially successful garage that provides an exceptional customer experience.
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Architectural Digest
Adventurers, this one is for you. AD100 architects Snøhetta and local partner Vitar AS have announced their latest project in Norway: A highly sustainable hotel with a 360-degree view of the Svartisen glacier. Designed as a circular extension of the Holandsfjord shoreline, Svart is the Arctic Circle's first energy net-positive hotel and also achieves Powerhouse design criteria — over a 60-year period, it will generate more renewable energy than it would be required to build, operate, and theoretically demolish it.
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Energy Manager Today
According to a recent U.S. Energy Department report, the number of LED installations has quadrupled from 215 million units in 2014 to 874 million units in 2016. Despite this staggering growth in the adaptation of LED lighting, LED market penetration is still at only 12.6 percent.
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BUILDINGS
A new roof is a steep investment, and its role in protecting the rest of your building means that if it’s not done right the first time, the consequences can be dire.
However, most facilities professionals don't have time to do double duty all day on the job site. That's where roof consultants and observers come in, explains Michael Clark, President of Michael E. Clark and Associates.
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Energy Manager Today
HVAC, LED and lighting innovations have helped propel businesses toward unprecedented efficiency savings.
According Forester Media's white paper, "Efficiency on Multiple Levels," the biggest change in energy efficiency is in capturing the energy savings from behavioral, optimized and attenuated devices. Here's a breakdown of the drivers behind the innovation change within the industry.
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Green Lodging News
Commercial ice makers — the kind you see in hotel hallways, restaurants, and hospitals — can churn out anywhere from 50 pounds to 4,000 pounds of ice every day. They can produce regular cubes, ice nuggets for drink machines, or soft flakes used in supermarket displays, and they use a lot of water and energy to do it.
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Los Angeles Times
Old brick buildings are one of the deadliest structures in an earthquake. Saif Hussain, a structural engineer who has helped write retrofit guidelines for Los Angeles and the American Society of Civil Engineers, explains why.
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